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...about 700 miles to the east, its four cruisers, 40-odd destroyers and 50 to 100 submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve as a mobile missile base...
...Russian navy has historically been handicapped by geography-graphically illustrated this summer when a cruiser and two destroyers had to make the long and circuitous passage via the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and the Danish narrows simply to transfer from the Black Sea to the Baltic fleet...
Empty Seats. At week's end the team of Nick and Mick broke up. Mikoyan, the trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
Bleak Theme. Marguerite Yourcenar has set down the story of the doomed Baltic civilization in a fable so barely told (in translation from the French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers...
Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...