Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...
...German territory the Russians took for themselves the northern third of East Prussia, including that most Prussian city and key Baltic port, Königsberg. Already ensconced in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (whose annexation by Russia is now virtually recognized by the other great powers), Russia now dominates the Baltic...
...profoundly suspicious of Soviet intentions. He is convinced that Russian expansion Westward is inevitable, and that expansion, he thinks, will be prompted by a number of things: the nationalistic urge toward "more and more security and power"; the temptation to obtain world trade-lines via the Mediterranean, the Baltic and North Atlantic; the ancient Pan-Slavic tradition; the century-old Russian desire for hegemony over Poland, the Balkans and Constantinople...
Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...
Eventually the Swedes may shave their price to within OPA's price limits, and so restore their prewar export market for 1,000,000 tons of pulp a year to the U.S. But it was reported that the first three shiploads of pulp to sail through the Baltic this week were not bound for the U.S.; they were headed for Britain, Portugal and Argentina. These countries are more aware than OPA that prices for pulp and other commodities in the world markets cannot always be regimented to fit domestic price controls. Last week, in fact, ' the Swedes were...