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Decimated and divided between Baltic and Norwegian waters, the remnant of the German Navy now has only a limited nuisance value...
Optimism. Moscow's confidence stemmed from more than armed victory. Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden arrived for the eagerly awaited conference with Viacheslav Molotov. With Hull, in four planes, came the new U.S. Ambassador, W. Averell Harriman, the State Department's experts on Russian, Baltic, Balkan affairs and the Secretary's friend and adviser James C. Dunn. Also among the arrivals were Major General John R. Deane, U.S.A., secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchill's personal Chief of Staff. In Africa was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury...
...conflicting views in these areas, were also known in advance. The U.S.S.R. wants a strong, friendly, de-Nazied Germany, the U.S. and Britain want a weakened Germany. Russia, as her press plainly said last week, refuses even to discuss the Soviet domination of her "security belt" in the Baltic States, eastern Poland, prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the parts of Finland seized in 1940, all of which belonged to Czarist Russia...
...Dark, swarthy, forceful Andrei Zhdanov is the Leningrad party boss, a member of the Soviet Union's omnipotent nine-man Politburo, an intimate friend of Stalin. Before the war, he urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness...
...west, the Soviet Union therefore is determined to have a territorial "security belt.". In all probability these areas-the Baltic States, old Poland's "White Russia," prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the northern lands taken from Finland in 1940-will not be subject to discussion at the conferences...