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...Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
Britain and the U.S. have a large reserve in mothballs, but the Soviet ships are all manned and ready for action, with, said Thomas, "by far the greatest part of their strength . . . concentrated in the Baltic and Northern Seas." Work in Soviet shipyards has been speeded up, and "more cruisers are now being built annually than by all the NATO forces combined." By virtue of Allied help during World War II, and the advice of German experts afterwards, "the most up-to-date technical equipment has been developed in their latest ships." Though without aircraft carriers, Russia has a powerful...
...field ever since he entered the Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov, when the secret agreement on Manchuria was finally worked out. He subsequently became Counselor of the State Department, working closely...
...training began last month in three centers-at Dresden, at Quedlinburg and near Pinnow on the Baltic-with about 500 students. (The ministry aimed for an enrollment of 1,000, but recruiting flopped.) Each student has been passed by an examining board which includes two doctors but is mainly concerned with the applicant's political reliability. If he (or she) can pass that test, and has had some training in nursing, it does not matter whether he ever finished high school...
Between the Baltic Sea and the Bavarian Alps, the U.S., Britain and France have a string of air bases equal to any in the world. Inherited from the Nazis, the accommodations at these bases reflect the care that Hermann Goring lavished on his pet Luftwaffe. Runways (extended by the jet-flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas...