Word: russians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass flight of first historic importance. Not because of its distance (over 1,000 miles). Not because it brought invaluable and much needed help to the Finns and lots of trouble to the Russians, who are short on seaplanes. But because it cast the brightest landing light to date on the tangled surface of the Russian-German agreements, did much to illuminate the contemplated future policies of both those countries, and foreshadowed a major alteration in the course of World...
That the chancelleries of Europe had these facts straight, and that the outbreak of Finnish-Russian war had done much to bring about the ultimate choosing-up of sides in World War II, was evident in many places last week...
...Rome, where any kind of diversion in the Baltic is a welcome respite from Russian pressure on the Balkans, the game was played for all it was worth. Students marched to cheer the Finnish Minister, yelled "Abbasso il Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...
...Russian Delegate Jacob Suritz, also Ambassador to France, kept to his hotel while the League Council, in secret session, debated. Prominent visitor to Comrade Suritz's suite was the cultured, polished, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, the Chinese delegate. One more screwy turn of the 20th Century's apparently chronic cockayed politics, had put the doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China...
...thought for a moment that Russia would accede. If not, should Russia be expelled? Probability: censure of Russia's aggression, followed by Russian notice of withdrawal at the end of the customary two-year wait. Certainly no more than moral help would come to Finland through the League...