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...argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres can lead to rapid, decisive results. . . . The treaty of friendship and development of economic relations with the Soviet Union and the security of Baltic trade routes make Germany independent of sea transport passing through the North...
...think, for the Dictator's control of press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports...
...Permanent Boundary." According to the covertly disgruntled Germans, Herr von Ribbentrop was in Moscow not out of Baltic anxiety but to negotiate the final partition of Poland, cement the new Russo-German ties still more firmly and secure J. Stalin's good offices in bringing pressure upon Great Britain and France to back out of World...
...other hand, there was no denying that the Soviet-Estonian Treaty and the way the map of Poland is now drawn, amount to Russia's having blocked Germany out of both the North Baltic and the East Balkans. The only apparent advantage Nazi von Ribbentrop obtained in Moscow last week was a pledge signed by Premier Molotov that Russia will "supply
This week the Soviet Dictator, giving the panicky North Baltic not an instant's respite, set the Moscow radio to suggesting that Finland and Lithuania too "lease" bases to Russia in return for "trade." A German correspondent in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, flashed reports that its Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys would shortly speed to Moscow...