Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read, Another Soviet clarion call for peace was made today by Joseph Stalin." The next day, December 1, the Worker's headline was, RED ARMY HURLS BACK INVADING FINNISH TROOPS, CROSSES BORDER, while the Times said, FINNS' CABINET RESIGNS AS SOVIET MOMBS CITIES; NEW GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO SEEK A TRUCE; 200 ARE KILLED. The next day a feature headline in the Worker asked, "Why did the Times censor the facts on Finland...
...began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post the day Japan agreed to a truce in the Outer Mongolian border fighting-after Russia had trounced the seatful pants off the Japanese Army. He was in a position to dictate...
Last week Secretary Wallace did it again. In Berkeley, Calif., preparing to dedicate a new Department of Agriculture laboratory, to attend the Western Conference on Governmental Problems and other Bay district events, he broke the truce on partisan politics for which President Roosevelt asked when war broke out in Europe (TIME, Sept. 11). It was eight in the morning, and the reporters were sleepy. Whether or not they exercised their fatal fascination, the Secretary soon found himself saying: "The war situation obviously makes it clear that the President's talents and training are necessary to steer the country, domestically...
Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
MONTCLAIR, N. J.--Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins tonight intimated for the first time that the Roosevelt Administration would be satisfied with a truce between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations...