Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevel sector, which looks like a dagger aimed at the Baltic States and northern Poland, there was fierce action again, and the Germans acknowledged a "major penetration" of their lines. West of Nevel some Russian columns were now within 50 miles of the Latvian, 40-odd miles of the Polish border. Gomel still faced doom and Red troops were barely a dozen miles from German held Vitebsk...
...liberated and restored to independence. But nothing indicated that Russia proposes to give up the territory taken from eastern Poland in 1939. And it was evident that Stalin, in Moscow's aftermath, expected to preserve his western borders intact, with Finland's Karelia, the Baltic states and Bessarabia incorporated as Soviet territory...
Optimism. Moscow's confidence stemmed from more than armed victory. Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden arrived for the eagerly awaited conference with Viacheslav Molotov. With Hull, in four planes, came the new U.S. Ambassador, W. Averell Harriman, the State Department's experts on Russian, Baltic, Balkan affairs and the Secretary's friend and adviser James C. Dunn. Also among the arrivals were Major General John R. Deane, U.S.A., secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchill's personal Chief of Staff. In Africa was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury...
...conflicting views in these areas, were also known in advance. The U.S.S.R. wants a strong, friendly, de-Nazied Germany, the U.S. and Britain want a weakened Germany. Russia, as her press plainly said last week, refuses even to discuss the Soviet domination of her "security belt" in the Baltic States, eastern Poland, prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the parts of Finland seized in 1940, all of which belonged to Czarist Russia...
...Dark, swarthy, forceful Andrei Zhdanov is the Leningrad party boss, a member of the Soviet Union's omnipotent nine-man Politburo, an intimate friend of Stalin. Before the war, he urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness...