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...Furthermore, his interest in the battles is tightly linked with his interest in the cause for which they were (or were not) fought. His war is simultaneously against Hitler and against "a public quite indifferent to those trains of locked vans . . . rolling East and West from Poland and the Baltic, that were to roll on year after year bearing their innocent loads to ghastly unknown destinations...
...East-Baltic type of Irishman, who are the round-headed people with-tow or red heads, fair skin, and blue eyes are the real minority group in Ireland. There was just 1.3 per cent of them among the 10,000 surveys...
Navy Privateer in the Baltic in 1950; an other, the Neptune bomber shot down off the coast of Korea last year ; the third was of Red fighters forcing down a U.S. cargo plane in Hungary last winter. The Krem lin has never directly admitted the shooting down of the planes...
Across the heart of Germany, from the Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
...north, at the Baltic Sea, an old German stood in sorrow, watching the waves curling up the gritty beach at the seaside town of Travemünde. The waves split on a two-foot iron stake threaded with barbed wire. "The Communists," he said, "are not content with splitting our country. They are even splitting...