Word: baltics
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...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
Timasheff calls Germany's Baltic concessions "incredible." Repatriation of Germans in the Baltic States means that Germany has given these countries to Russia forever instead of using them as stepping stones for further agression...
...Catholics and as logical Latins, Italians viewed with dismay last week the physical retreat before advancing Bolshevism of the 118,000 Germans who abruptly left the Baltic States on orders of the Führer (see p. 21). Even the carefully controlled press began to express this feeling...
Reds in Riga. No. 2 on Stalin's Baltic list is Latvia and this week its entire General Staff went down to the railway station in Riga to greet a Soviet Military Delegation which arrived to see about establishing Red Navy, Army and Air Force bases. Although these mean the rid of Latvian independence, the General Staff made the best of a sad occasion, banqueted their Soviet guests...
...union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...