Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other Communist ex-Deputies. Eight were let off with suspended jail sentences of four years, but sent to concentration camps for Communists & Nazis near Paris (soon to be moved to North Africa). Nine Communist ex-Deputies tried in absentia (Paris believes several of these are hiding in the Soviet Embassy) received five-year jail sentences and fines of 5,000 francs, but further charges of "treason against the external safety of the State" will be pressed against them and they may be sentenced to be guillotined should they be caught in France...
...Soviet Premier Molotov promptly sent instructions which caused Ambassador Suritz, now persona non grata in France, to swing aboard the Simplon Express last week. At that, Ambassador Suritz could not have been wholly sorry to leave Paris. Since the war with Finland his Government has been a good deal less than popular in France. On a recent evening French Playwright René Fauchois saw the Ambassador rolling by in his bulletproof limousine, hollered: "Vive la Finlande!" 'Bulletproof notwithstanding, the Ambassador dived for the car's floor...
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, in his weekend radioration, expressed this attitude neatly: "It is no part of our policy to seek a war with Russia." And in the next breath: "The Soviet Government, in their onslaught against the heroic Finns, have exposed to the whole world the ravages which Communism makes upon the fibre of any nation which falls a victim to that deadly mental and moral disease. This exposure of the Russian Army and Russian Air Force has astonished the world and has rightly heartened all the States that dwell upon the Russian border...
...Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, amiable little Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were...
Lord Halifax gave Ambassador Maisky no satisfaction, despite the latter's oath that the cargoes were entirely for Soviet consumption, not reexport to Germany, and his legal point that Russia's ships are State-owned, hence not subject to seizure. Presently it was announced that British officials at Hong Kong had turned both Red freighters over to their allies, the French, who were taking them to a port in Indo-China for further scrutiny. Report was that the officers & crew of the Selenga, refusing to submit, were placed under arrest. It seemed a cinch that neither Russia...