Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Pratt expressed doubt whether England could have done much in the way of giving Finland naval aid "unless Britain entered the Baltic and controlled it. If it were not for German and Russian air power, this could have been done. But as air strength stands today, the move would have been hazardous...
Hitler-mustached Zhdanov admires German efficiency, German methods. As long ago as 1936 he made an impassioned speech before the All-Union Congress of the Soviets urging annexation of the Baltic States and Finland. Last summer it was Zhdanov who paved the way for agreement with Germany. As Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs, he has an influence in foreign affairs greater than that of Molotov...
...Russia extends her hegemony around the Baltic and reaches back toward maritime power, Zhdanov gains in prestige. For Leningrad is Russia's No. 1 seaport-in area, the world's second largest-and headquarters of the Red Fleet. And if Russia's power spreads through Scandinavia to the Atlantic, Zhdanov will be the man who wields...
...connotation of TIME'S report is even more alarming. TIME implies a criminal delay on the part of our Senate while the Baltic states are under invasion. TIME suggests that we could help stop the massacre...
...Here the German Government was believed to have notified the Swedish Government that the Reich could never permit British and French troops in Northern Europe. Meanwhile, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Chief of all Nazi Armies, pointedly visited Danzig and Gotenhafen, on the southern Baltic, to inspect "military reconstruction work." No passage, said the Swedish Foreign Office...