Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
Russia was the prime mover for agreement. Stalin had opened the discussions by asking Britain, as an earnest of permanent friendship, to promise that in the peace settlement Russia should recover the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as a part of Poland, to serve as protection against future German aggression. From the standpoint of Russia, that was perhaps no more unreasonable than for the U.S. to ask for the Japanese-mandated islands in the Pacific as protection against future Japanese assaults...
...done had the approval of Russia, and vice versa. Not since the rise of Hitler had Britain and Russia been able to agree on even an effective basis of mutual self-preservation. When they tried to get together in 1939 the British balked at Russian control of the Baltic States (which last year helped to save Leningrad) and Russia plumped into the non-aggression pact with Germany. Later Britain helped Finland against Russia. Even after Hitler's attack on Russia last year, some Britons' abhorrence of Communism led them to hope that somehow Germany and Russia would destroy...
There was, for example, the comparatively petty problem of the Baltic States -Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It has been an open secret in England that, as an earnest of Britain's sincerity, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov had asked for British endorsement of Russia's title to the Baltic States (which had been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide...
...feared that a Baltic settlement would be loudly damned by the Senate, the body that repudiated Wilson's doctrine of self-determination...