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...Collier's sent him to France and Belgium in 1914, to Central Europe in 1915, to Russia in 1916-17, to France in 1918, to the Baltic in 1919. More recently he visited the Baltic States and Poland for The New York Evening Post, and went to Russia two years ago for the New York Herald Tribune...
Attached to the ill-fated #34, he made the 57-hour trip to the Baltic, obtained a British pilot's license, became a regular member of her crew. Previously he had attended at her modeling, her building. His training completed by study of the Zeppelin in Germany, Lansdowne was regarded as one of the half-dozen ablest lighter-than-air commanders in the world...
...virtual defeat of the British Navy was a tragedy is aptly summarized: It increased German morale, made possible submarine warfare, left the all-important Baltic Sea a "German Lake," permitted Admiral Scheer's Fleet considerable liberty...
...Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), lost to Sweden, by obstinate and unnecessary warring against the European Powers and Peter the Great of Russia, Baltic provinces stretching from Stettin to Reval, and in so doing reduced his country from the rank of a first-class power...
...Free City of Danzig, with its territory, forms a corridor between Germany and its province of East Prussia and thus allows the Poles an economic outlet to the Baltic Sea. To Germans, the status quo is intolerable; to Poles, it is indispensable; thus, the former, by insidious propaganda, seek to restore the status quo ante; while the latter, by the same methods, seek to improve the status quo in favor of Poland...