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...Rosenberg who boasts "I am a Balt!" and was indeed born near the Baltic Sea. Emotional, he edits Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter. In politics his principal idea is the "Rosenberg Plan" under which Germany and Poland would make war on Russia, both seizing great hunks of Soviet territory and Germany receiving the Polish Corridor as a gift from her grateful and victorious ally. As an inkling of what will soon be taught, Dr. Rosenberg announced officially last week in the organ of the Hitler Youth...
Since Socrates, after considerable palaver, raised the poison cup of hemlock and escaped the indignity of public execution, modern nations have decided that a man under sentence of death who kills himself is cheating the law. Sole exception is the dignified little Baltic State of Estonia. Until a thwarted Nazi putsch so alarmed President Konstantin Pats last year that he declared a state of martial law, Estonia had ignored the death penalty entirely. Confronted with the new problem of how to execute Estonians, President Pats devised a system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always...
...much explosive resentment had been stored up in the masses before it took place, how much agony followed it. His last chapters become a cumulative catalog of miseries as he writes of the civil war, when Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though the Bolsheviks undoubtedly were in many sections, they could always count on more support among the common people than the Whites, who were everywhere identified with a return...
...importance, it can hold its own with the best of them. Because the peninsula of Jutland turns a sandy, treacherous, sparse backbone to the North Sea (see map), Danes from the earliest times have concentrated in the Baltic islands. Copenhagen, the capital, and Hamlet's Elsinore (now an important rail and ferry junction for Sweden and Norway) are on the largest island, Zealand. A large proportion of the fish, butter, eggs and bacon that are Denmark's chief products come from the island of Fünen. Danish motor roads are excellent, railroads (50% government-owned, the rest...
...moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover (40 years younger than she) at Potemkin's bidding. He took himself off, disgruntled, and five years later Catherine, after...