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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Two nights ago I was in Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Honk, Honk, Honk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

"Business As Usual." Against all these signs of what J. Stalin wanted Russians to think, for the Dictator's control of press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Last Hour. While the larger issue of Soviet armed intervention or peaceful mediation in World War II remained a question, Moscow proceeded swiftly snapping what a Swedish commentator called "Stalin shackles" on the defenseless Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

What did the hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

A glance at the map shows that Russia does not need the Alands, unless she is imperialistically minded toward Scandinavia, and Swedes hoped Moscow would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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