Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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March 24. Secretary for Overseas Trade Robert Hudson goes to Moscow for Anglo-Soviet trade talks...
...Molotov in speech to Supreme Soviet doubts British sincerity in anti-Hitler campaign...
Clodius had money as well as threats with which to buy their produce, wheat-growing Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania would themselves need what they could raise. All through eastern Europe, even in Soviet Russia, peasants moaned that crops would be short...
...Mexican newspaper, El Popular, organ of Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Mexican Federation of Labor, opened fire on Cortesi and Burton. Ever since the Nazi-Soviet pact last August, El Popular has carried on a relentless campaign of invective against democracy. Not even Mexico's pro-Nazi magazine Timon can equal the virulence of El Popular'1- attacks on the U. S., President Roosevelt, Britain and France...
...Baltic States-threat to Germany's exposed northern flank. Last week Russia went in for some trumpery which looked very much like an excuse to get a better foothold in the spot nearest Germany: Lithuania. The little State was warned to discontinue trying to pry military information from Soviet soldiers. Five Russians were said to have been kidnapped at various times, gagged, blindfolded, thrown in cellars, starved for several days, beaten, questioned. One was alleged to have been killed. The Kremlin's warning expressed the hope that Lithuania would not oblige Russia to "take other steps...