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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British refugee in Germany remained beauteous, Nazi-struck Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...
When Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler began signing agreements, diplomats guessed that there was more to the partnership than at first met the eye. They suspected the existence of secret clauses, annexes, even verbal understandings that were not made public. They were right. As events began to unravel, and perhaps as Dictator Stalin got unexpectedly grabby, he got a big slice of Poland. Not long thereafter the Eastern Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and perhaps Finland) became an uncontested sphere of Red imperialism. All told, Herr Hitler had won Russian "friendship," but it looked as though, so far, Tovarish Stalin...
...imperialist adventurers," some 18,000 German-speaking Estonians, descendants of the Teutonic Knights and Hanseatic merchants who had settled in the Eastern Baltic six and seven centuries ago, made haste to get out. Further south, in Latvia, 60,000 Balts-as the Germans are known in the Baltic-simultaneously began a mass migration back to the "spiritual homeland" they have not known for centuries, while in Lithuania, where Russian troops are expected before long, a mass exodus of 40,000 "racial comrades" was to begin shortly...
...Eastern Europe in collaboration with Russia, as announced in his recent Reichstag speech. It was also consistent with mutual Soviet-German declarations that Hitlerism is for the Germans and Bolshevism for the Slavs, but that the two do not necessarily mix. But the unseemly haste with which the evacuation began suggested that here was a complicating detail of his new policy which the Führer had overlooked until the last minute, and that, far from being planned, the transfer was the result of pure immediate necessity. Germany has long considered the Baltic a "German lake." Friendship with Joseph Stalin...
...When the war began Britain's two big parties, Labor and Conservative, called a halt in politics, each party agreeing not to oppose the other in by-elections. If there were a Parliamentary vacancy of a seat formerly held by a Conservative, the Laborites agreed not to put up a candidate and vice versa. Last week, at a by-election in Glasgow, this idyllic state of affairs was impaired when Pacifist Andrew Stewart entered the race independently on a "Stop the War" platform against Laborite Arthur Woodburn, who supported the war. True to their pledge, the Conservatives...