Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the supreme conundrum of our time. We ask it in Manchuria . . . eastern Europe . . . Italy . . . Iran . . . Tripolitania . . . the Baltic and the Balkans . . . Poland . . . Canada . . . Japan. We can ask it sometimes even in connection with events in our own United States...
They had fled from their Baltic homeland after it was taken over by Russia, refused to go back to their Communist-dominated country. It had taken virtually all their money to buy the Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...
...week Big Three relations were back at the Potsdam stage of cooperation; the agreement on the peace treaties closely followed the Potsdam line. As usual, there had been a slight charge for alterations. At Potsdam, for example, America and Britain had in effect agreed that Russia could run the Baltic states. At Moscow, they added the Balkans...
...gravitation of the Baltic nations to Russia is only the natural union at the Slavic peoples, and cannot be averted. If the western nations would keep out of Russia's sphere of influence in the Balkans and recognize that fact, the stability of Europe's politics would again be restored...
...million are still to come, including refugees from the once-German Baltic port of Stettin. The major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...