Word: estonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
Pallid, big-boned, secretive Colonel Josef Beck, active Polish Foreign Minister who recently visited Sweden, then Estonia, was off again last week on another flying trip as advance agent for his proposed Eastern European Bloc. Idea of the Beck Bloc, it is rumored, is that all the little countries which lie in the area of a possible future war should form a neutral belt between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia, should appear at Geneva before the next League Assembly and secure officially for themselves a recognized neutrality status similar to that of Belgium. They would ask to be released from...
...world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet...
...haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...
...headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister at Tallin a sheaf of promises to resume friendly relations and intercourse with Poland by rail, mail, telegraph...