Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within six weeks Russia occupied and socialized three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, took outright from Rumania, Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. Last week the Red Army was feverishly digging in along the east bank of the Prut while Premier Molotov kept southeast Europe sweating in steam from three valves...
Although the brightest spotlight played on Bessarabia and The Straits, Stalin and Molotov watched other performances in war's many-ringed circus last week. In the Baltic the Red Fleet finished intensive war games, perhaps designed to help persuade Finland to let the U. S. S. R. fortify the Åland Islands, which would weaken Germany in the Baltic. In the Far East, against Japan, Russia needs more than Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang for security against Japan; she needs a strong China, which Britain would also like to see. And across the Himalayas lies India...
...Japan to send about 1,125,000 armed men on to Chinese soil to establish a New Order in East Asia. Thus began the war in China. This week the China incident is three years old. In that time Republican Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, The Lowlands, the Baltic States, even the French Empire, have all succumbed to treachery or superior military might. And all that time the Chinese race, supposedly the most craven and corruptible people on earth, have held back the sharp, mechanical thrusts of one of the three supposedly toughest and most intriguing countries on earth...
...consolidating her own position to the east of Hitler's Europe. On the heels of her occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those three countries set up left-wing Governments that looked like steppingstones to complete sovietization. Hotly Russia's official news agency Tass denied that her Baltic grab was aimed against Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals gave Russia a free hand in the Baltic...
Last week, after a confab between Secretary Hull and Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, a corner of this embargo was raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...