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...Neutral Belt." The new Russian talk is of a vast "neutral belt" extending from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The idea is that it would serve as a buffer zone between NATO and the Soviet empire. The frontiers of the neutral zone Molotov has not defined, but his clear intention is that it should include the whole of Germany, thus breaching the NATO front...
Mediterranean to Baltic. Not all festivals can offer a patroness named Kunigunde, or a liver cure, but in their own way, 43 villages, towns and cities in West Germany are staging "musical manifestations" this summer. In the rest of Europe, from Mediterranean to Baltic Sea, there are some half a hundred more. Seventeen of them have found it advisable to band together to avoid conflicts in scheduling, programming and hiring of artists, and to prevent rivalries from breaking...
This eloquent book bears a Danish boy's precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish...
...appropriate moment for a man to die is nowhere so well understood as in the Soviet Union. Thus the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia lauds Stanislav Faddeevich Dorozynski, an early naval airman who made one of the first flights across the Baltic, as a "pioneer of Russian aviation," but carefully notes that he perished in a crash back...
Serov did not belong either to the presidium of party or government. An old GPU agent, whose most notable exploits were liquidating the Baltic and Chechen peoples during World War II, Serov is a tall, cadaverous man who walks unevenly. The Germans knew him as "the one with the limp." They made his acquaintance in the Ukraine, where he is said to have worked with Khrushchev...