Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Union be read out of the League. Swedish Delegate Bo Osten Unden moved that a telegram-virtually an ultimatum-be sent to Moscow asking that the Red Army be halted and that the Finnish-Russian dispute be mediated. Britain's Richard Austen Butler asked and got a time limit of 24 hours for the Soviet Union to reply...
...September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
Foreign Commissar Litvinoff's most eloquent, emphatic statement on international morals was made in his maiden speech: We are faced now with the task of preventing war. ... At the same time we must grasp the undoubted truth that . . . not a single more or less important war can be localized. . . . We must also tell ourselves that any war sooner or later will bring distress to all countries, both to the combatants and the nonparticipants...
...Council took up the matter and immediately found that "by its act the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has placed itself outside the League of Nations. It follows that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is no longer a member of the League." And so for the first time in its history the League had expelled one of its members...
...authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...