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...Riga-the large islands of Dagö and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu. Last week the Russians seized Vormsi and Muhu by amphibious assault, landed marines and tanks. Berlin claimed that German warships had tangled with the Red Fleet, now freely ranging the eastern Baltic, and had sunk many landing barges-but there was no claim of dislodging the Reds from their island footholds. Heavier naval action in the Baltic seemed likely soon...
...Topic. The N.Y. Times's James B. Reston offered an explanation. What Russia feels, he pointed out, is that Estonia,* Latvia, Lithuania and Poland east of the Curzon Line are her legitimate business,.not to be meddled with by outsiders. She fears that at some future time the Baltic States or Poland might appeal to the security league, charge Russia with aggression against them. The U.S. and Britain might be inclined to listen...
Plainly, Russia's hesitations, her wary mind and mood of suspicion were the realistic Russians' way of saying to their Allies: Face the facts. Stop talking about the Baltic States and the Polish question. If you want world security, you can have it, but you must first recognize our right to national security...
Timesman Reston put the Russian attitude in a nutshell: "Her attitude is that we should not ask her to give up the Baltic States any more than she should ask us to give Texas land back to Mexico...
...Future. As to the future of Russian literature, I heard the other night a most revealing program set forth by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a distinguished playwright who is a naval officer and has written mostly about the Baltic Sea and the defense of Leningrad. Speaking specifically for the magazine Snamya, of which he is an editor, but inferentially for all Russian writers, he said that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that...