Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Helsinki, the Finnish Government tentatively issued the following announcement: "The Soviet Government is believed to have planned the presentation of demands to Finland more far-reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage...
Friday. The Copenhagen Ekstrabladet reported that Soviet Minister to Sweden Alexandra Kollontay had got in touch with Finnish Minister to Sweden Eljas Erkko...
...Helsinki Foreign Minister Tanner made the following statement: "The Finnish Government acknowledges the Soviet Government has forwarded demands...
...Russia talking peace with tiny Finland (see p. 19) partly because last week the Soviet Union was again approaching famine...
...past years Soviet famine news has proved too dangerous for Moscow correspondents even to smuggle out. But last week to London from Moscow went a onetime Utica, N. Y. journalist. Spencer Williams, who at last could talk freely-even of famine-after spending some ten years in the Soviet Union as secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. His Moscow office recently "closed until further notice...