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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Soviet newspaper Pravda dismisses U.S. reports of planned Soviet invasion of Alaska as 'delirium tremens,' originating from a Mexican bar rumor about Axis war plans involving North and South America.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (AP) - The Communist newspaper Pravda said "The phenomenon known to science as delirium tremens has been spread all over America recently by the publication of the silly calumny" that Soviet Russia plans to invade Alaska.
The paper criticized both the American press and politicians for the report which it said originating at a Vera Cruz, Mexico, bar, that the German "war calendar" envisages a joint Soviet and Axis action in North and South America.
The paper further said: "In old Russia people used to get so drunk that they saw imps, white elephants and green snakes. In a Mexican bar they got so drunk they saw Alaska."
On February 2nd Robert Conway, staff correspondent for the New York Daily News, in a dispatch from Mexico City said the "blueprint" of the Axis plan had reached there from a Spanish Fascist organization.
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Moscow
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Feb. 8
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pravda denies soviet plans to invade alaska, calling the rumor a product of drunken hallucination from a mexican bar.
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Pravda criticizes American press and politicians for spreading a rumor originating in a Vera Cruz, Mexico, bar that a German 'war calendar' envisages joint Soviet and Axis action in North and South America. The paper compares the rumor to delirium tremens visions. Robert Conway reported on February 2nd from Mexico City about an Axis blueprint from a Spanish Fascist organization.