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About the same time the U. S. came on the scene. U. S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt conferred for an hour at the Kremlin with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, and talked with other diplomats...
...Sweden had no doubt that the bombers were Red Army planes, although in Stockholm the Government was ready to believe that the Russians had simply made a mistake. In Moscow Swedish Minister Vilhelm Assarsson hurried to protest to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, fully expecting to get an apology similar to that offered when the Russians early this year mistakenly bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks. Instead, the People's Commissar flatly denied that Red aviators were responsible...
Comrade Litvinoff's sole known duty today is to attend Supreme Soviet sessions, where he usually hears his heavy-tongued successor, Viacheslav Molotov. take a different tack. Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin's "Government of toilers," certainly "without declaring war" and surely "without a shadow of cause of justification," has, indeed, made war against Finland. And as last week the League met to do something about it, another Soviet delegate, Jacob Z. Suritz, also Ambassador to France, delivered no such ringing anti-aggression exhortations as used to be expected from Maxim Litvinoff...
...Russians sat tight. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a message to League Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol which declared that the "Soviet Union is not in a state of war with Finland and does not threaten the Finnish people with war." On the contrary, maintained Comrade Molotov, "the Soviet Union maintains peaceful relations with the democratic Republic of Finland" -a reference to the puppet Soviet Government the Russians set up at Terijoki, Finland, fortnight ago (TIME...
First Pressure was applied on Sunday, when the Red Army reported an incident-on the border which, the Soviet Union claimed, killed or wounded 13 soldiers. Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a note to Finland immediately demanding that Finnish troops be moved from twelve to 15 miles back of the border. On Monday the Finns formally disavowed the incident, replied with a refusal to move their troops unless the Soviet Union did likewise. After that the Finnish-Soviet timetable was crowded with angry notes, inflammatory speeches, useless diplomatic parleys...