Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do not approve it) seem a little weak at arithmetic. For the Polish group now unilaterally recognized by Moscow is the ninth of a series. The other political entities which the Soviet Union treats as 'governments,' in contrast to the U.S.A. and Britain, are the three Baltic states, the . . . administrations of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. If this process continues unchecked, we must, before this war ends, expect to see the Soviet Union set up further stooges in four more countries, namely, Austria, Slovakia, Iran and (why not?) Manchuria...
Moscow gave no word of action in the Baltic sector, no reply to Allied criticism of inaction. The Red Army could have cited major difficulties, chiefly that of supplying an offensive front 1,200 to 1,600 miles from main production centers. The Germans had run into that problem, at about the same distances, in their disastrous effort to take Stalingrad. Before a prolonged offensive could be built up, it had been necessary for the Russians to build up rail transport in battle-ravaged eastern Poland. Winter had come late...
...Poles-partition. To a House of Commons still seething with the Greek crisis, he announced that, with Britain's consent, Russia would extend her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, 63, brush-haired, short-time head of Russia's Provisional Government in 1917, overthrown and exiled by Lenin, spoke up at a meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan for the U.S.S.R.'s territorial claims in eastern Poland and the Baltic States, declared that for Russia to give up these claims was like asking the "U.S. to disannex its possessions or . . . part of its own borders." Hedged anti-Communist Kerensky: "I am still the implacable enemy of the . . . dictatorship in Moscow. But since the first day of the (German) invasion, I have supported . . . the war aims...
White on Zaslavsky: "He is, I believe, the same man who attacked [Wendell Willkie] last January as a 'Political gambler' who was 'playing a peculiar political game' because he discussed the situation of the Baltic states and Poland...