Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President of the U. S. to mind his own business...
More complicating and difficult was Soviet Russia, with whom Turkey had enjoyed 20 years of uninterrupted friendship. For three weeks before the alliance was finally signed Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu had been in Moscow. In between visits to the Soviet Agricultural Exposition and the ballet, he had talked with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who was just then also heavily engaged in conversations with various Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians, Letts...
...Saracoglu refused all demands, and at length departed, with Soviet and Turkish flags decorating the Moscow station, a band alternating between the Internationale and the Turkish national anthem and a courteous Soviet communique announcing that the two countries still retained their friendship. Later, however, the Moscow newsorgan Izvestia ominously hinted that Turkish-Russian relations had soured. At the same time in Ankara, German Ambassador Franz von Papen entrained for Berlin, there to explain to Fiihrer Hitler why he had failed to win the Turks away from the Allies...
...large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks about the "friendship pact." Meantime, however, the Finns prudently prepared to vote $95,000,000 in war credits...
Mobilization & Mannerheim. Finnish President Kyösti Kallio and Premier Aimo Cajander took hard-headed measures of preparation for actual war with the Soviet Union, should it be forced upon them, while at the same time behaving with utmost politeness to Joseph Stalin, showing complete readiness to cooperate in friendship with Russia if the Bolsheviks want to be sincerely friendly...