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Juri Marcus, son of the former Estlionian minister to Poland, will speak tonight at a public meeting of the Youth Group of the League of Nations Association on "Russia Moves to the Baltic." The meeting will be held in the Lowell House Junior Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
...Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack of discrimination pained our urban "intellectuals," but it was the latter, not the former, who were confounded when Stalin joined hands with . . . Hitler and invaded the Baltic States. Moreover, these same Americans rejected Communism with contempt, saying in effect: "I don't want no bureaucrat telling me what to do." Which statement seems to me not as beautiful but just as enlightening as Lewis Mumford's belated verdict that "the struggle is for the human...
After Stalin's Purge, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Russia's grab of half of Poland, 1940 betrayed the full nature of Stalin's hand with the attack on Finland, the seizure of part of Rumania, and all of the Baltic States. Fellow travelers began to jump off the train. Promptly Comrade V. J. Jerome the Party's Führer for the U. S. Intellectuals, wrote a pamphlet (Intellectuals and the War) tearing his old friends to pieces. Jerome said his erstwhile friends were just capitalist stooges anyway. They "came like arrogant slummers . . . looked upon...
...world knew the classic cornerstone of Russian diplomacy: that no nation but Russia should control the Black Sea straits. Joseph Stalin's choice was now a grim one. If he acquiesced in the Axis Drang nach Osten, he ran the risk of being bottled in both the Baltic and Black Seas by Germany. If he did not, he ran the risk of being attacked by 2,000,000 real soldiers through what used to be Poland...
...Britain's refusal to recognize Russia's sphere of influence in the Baltic that caused the breakdown of Anglo-Franco-Russian talks in 1939, and the subsequent Russo-German Non-Aggression Treaty...