Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point, Weizmann got a warning. Said his friend Lloyd George: "You have no time to waste. Today the world is like the Baltic before a frost ... it is still in motion. But if it gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises...
Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
...itself was General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, a lucid account of Allied strategy, written in serviceable Service English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines' War and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison...
Since 1945 more than 230 Baltic refugees have come to the U.S. in cockleshells even smaller than the Prolific. The Estonia, which brought Kou Walter and his wife and children to Florida, was only 47 feet long. The Erma, which sailed from Stockholm to Little Creek, Va., charting her course on a standard schoolboys' map of the Atlantic, measured 37 feet...
...Embattled Bulwarks. Far more powerful than any of these is Ana. Her sway extends beyond Rumania's 92,000 square miles and its 16.5 million people. She is the leading Communist in the band of states running from the Baltic to the Adriatic, where over 100 million people serve as Russia's shield against attack and Russia's springboard for aggression. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania are the satellites of a power which intends to make the world its satellite...