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...Japan to send about 1,125,000 armed men on to Chinese soil to establish a New Order in East Asia. Thus began the war in China. This week the China incident is three years old. In that time Republican Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, The Lowlands, the Baltic States, even the French Empire, have all succumbed to treachery or superior military might. And all that time the Chinese race, supposedly the most craven and corruptible people on earth, have held back the sharp, mechanical thrusts of one of the three supposedly toughest and most intriguing countries on earth...
...consolidating her own position to the east of Hitler's Europe. On the heels of her occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those three countries set up left-wing Governments that looked like steppingstones to complete sovietization. Hotly Russia's official news agency Tass denied that her Baltic grab was aimed against Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals gave Russia a free hand in the Baltic...
Last week, after a confab between Secretary Hull and Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, a corner of this embargo was raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...
...Russia were actually to risk fighting Germany, one of the Red Army's principal theoretical advantages would be its hold on the Baltic States-threat to Germany's exposed northern flank. Last week Russia went in for some trumpery which looked very much like an excuse to get a better foothold in the spot nearest Germany: Lithuania. The little State was warned to discontinue trying to pry military information from Soviet soldiers. Five Russians were said to have been kidnapped at various times, gagged, blindfolded, thrown in cellars, starved for several days, beaten, questioned. One was alleged...
...because of Germany's new proximity in The Netherlands, but chiefly because, when the war reached the Low Countries, the Allies' northern blockade of Germany became practically 100%. The skeleton crew at Kirkwall will look over only the few ships bound for Sweden, Finland, Russia and her Baltic satellites...