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...threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave for service in Korea. "Today," he said, "the consequences of this misplaced trust come home to everyone...
...side, is now willing to begin a world war which would jeopardize the empire he has created in 30 bloody years. In the satellite countries, the Kremlin is currently troubled not only by sullen populaces, but by unsatisfactory puppets. Finally, except for routine sea-air maneuvers in the Eastern Baltic and some spring exercises in East Germany, there have been no reports of major Soviet military moves...
...unarmed Catalina flying boat emblazoned with the three gold crowns of the Swedish royal air force lumbered above the Baltic early one morning this week in search of a sister plane that had been missing for four days. Cruising east, some 60 miles off the coast of Estonia and no miles from the Swedish coast, the defenseless Catalina was ambushed.* Two Russian MIG-15 jets bansheed down and made seven passes at the Catalina, one of them blasting away with its 20-mm. cannon. Hit several times, the Swedish plane got off a message to its home base...
...Protests. The news explained beyond much doubt what had happened to the first missing plane, an equally defenseless transport used as a "flying classroom" for Swedish air force radio operators, and to its complement of eight. The Baltic from Finland to Danzig was aswim with Soviet warships and submarines, the sky was thick with Russian jets; all were engaged in sea and air maneuvers...
...record was held briefly in 1852 by the Baltic, 2,664-ton sidewheeler which averaged 13 knots. Cunarders profess they are unconcerned by the new threat. Sniffed Cunard Chairman Fred Bates: "Speed for the sake of speed has not entered into our reckoning...