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...Russian note suggesting the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Fortnight ago the Moscow radio stopped criticizing Rumania, began defending her title to Transylvania. And last week Soviet agents began distributing propaganda tracts, appealing to all Balkan workers to follow the example of the proletarians in the three Baltic States and "liberate themselves" by joining...
...improved British magnetic mine was announced, with news that big Bristol Beauforts and Handley Page Hampdens had been sowing them industriously for weeks in German harbors as far east as the Baltic...
...have taught that war never settles anything. Look at the Revolutionary War and tell me that war never settled anything. . . . Try to tell a native of Norway that war never settles anything, or a native of Denmark or the Baltic countries...
Within six weeks Russia occupied and socialized three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, took outright from Rumania, Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. Last week the Red Army was feverishly digging in along the east bank of the Prut while Premier Molotov kept southeast Europe sweating in steam from three valves...
Although the brightest spotlight played on Bessarabia and The Straits, Stalin and Molotov watched other performances in war's many-ringed circus last week. In the Baltic the Red Fleet finished intensive war games, perhaps designed to help persuade Finland to let the U. S. S. R. fortify the Åland Islands, which would weaken Germany in the Baltic. In the Far East, against Japan, Russia needs more than Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang for security against Japan; she needs a strong China, which Britain would also like to see. And across the Himalayas lies India...