Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war, Rommel had traveled over the desert as a "tourist" and studied the terrain thoroughly. But he had no desert battle experience. So he established a training ground on the Kurische Nehrung, a sandy Baltic peninsula where UFA had filmed many a desert scene. His carefully picked soldiers lived in overheated barracks, learned to get along on dried food and vitamins, little water. Wind machines blew up artificial sandstorms. Rommel acclimated himself in a private hothouse...
...conquered Russia. They had destroyed or captured upwards of 4,500,000 Red soldiers, 15,000 Red tanks, 9,000 Red planes. But they had not destroyed the Red Army. German artillerymen photographed Leningrad through their telescopes. But they had not captured Leningrad, with its mastery of the Baltic, its way to Murmansk and the Murmansk supply route. The swastika flew within 115 miles of Moscow. But the Germans had not tak en the U.S.S.R.'s heart and capital, the vast railway system which rays out from Moscow and serves most of Russia...
...promise was not justified by the words; they hinted rather that one would be opened if Russia found herself too hard pressed. Similarly, the Anglo-Russian promise of no territorial aggrandizement did not necessarily mean that Russia had abandoned her demand that after the war the Baltic States (which Russia held at the time of the German attack a year ago) be given back to her as protection against future German aggression. It meant only that Russia had abandoned her demand for a formal commitment at this time...
...tactfully and skillfully worked toward it. He is this week's hero in Britain. Eden told Molotov that by far the most important thing was complete Russian trust of the British alliance and intention. He induced the Russians to give up their demand that they be promised the Baltic States (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania). And Eden suggested an alternative treaty that was the basis of the one finally signed...
...Baltic States have been a specific point of issue in Russian discussions with the Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...