Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazed, disgusted at TIME'S ruthless excoriation of the United States Senate in the issue of Jan. 29. You [imply] that the Senate is engaged in dull, inconsequential bickering while the Baltic states are, and are about to be, raped by the foes of Democracy...
...between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success of Japanese, German and Russian designs on China, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic States, or in the successful resistance of these latter nations, is to be guilty of moral irresponsibility...
...which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks Island (see p. 30). And with the cold came fear...
...born who was destined to make his mark in European politics. As a youth he soap-boxed for anti-Semitism and studied architecture. As a nominal subject of the Tsar he fought (so his enemies later said) with the Russian Imperial Armies. As a descendant of an old German Baltic family, he became a Pan-German and returned, after World War I, to his "spiritual homeland...
...Thirty-one Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...