Word: denials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Scandinavian sources) the arrival of the Italian planes in Finland, but stated that they had even landed to refuel in their flight across Germany. Furthermore, said Tass, it had heard that Germany herself was forwarding planes, munitions and even gasoline to Finland. To this Germany issued a cagey denial...
...provoke Japan in holding them; sit tight on the status quo. This policy, for many reasons, is the one which the U. S. is most apt to follow. It is what the indispensable, kindly, wise adviser of the State Department, Stanley K. Hornbeck, calls "a course of self-denial and restraint." It is certainly the course which Ambassador Johnson represents...
...Koskinen, Finnish Minister in Moscow, an emphatic reply to Finland's reply. The Finnish note, he said, reflected the "profound hostility on the part of the Government of Finland toward the Soviet Union and carries to the extreme the crisis in relations between the two countries." The Finnish denial of the border incident, said Mr. Molotov, showed a "desire to deride the victims of the shooting" ; refusal to move troops back "betrays a hostile desire by the Government of Finland to keep Leningrad under threat...
...hours before Soviet bombers started laying the eggs of a new war in Finland (see p. 23), Joseph Stalin, cock of the Kremlin walk, last week crowed a loud denial of something firmly believed by most foreigners in Moscow, not to speak of some natives. Correspondent...
...year, on the eve of a visit to Paris by Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Lord Halifax, Tabouis wrote that they had decided to give Germany the French island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. Next day she retracted her statement. To her denial L'Oeuvre's board of editors added a note in angry capitals: "IT IS DESIRABLE THAT FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION SHOULD NOT LET ITSELF BE TROUBLED BY RUMORS SPRINGING ENTIRELY FROM PURE FANTASY...