Word: estonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week another curious and unannounced by-product of the Hitler-Stalin "agreements" came dramatically to light. As the advance guard of 21,000 Red Army troops, supported by 400 tanks, marched in to protect little Estonia from the threats of "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...
...Latvia the Balts were mostly merchants; in Estonia they were rich landlords and, until the recent land reforms, 600 German families had owned half the country; in Lithuania, they were mostly smalltime, fairly well-to-do farmers who had left Germany centuries...
Last week all this U. S.-Finnish amity spectacularly came home to roost when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, having turned a deaf ear to pleas that he intervene for peace between Germany and the Allies, and having let Russia invade Poland and hog-tie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania without protest (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.), vigorously bestirred himself lest Joseph Stalin crack down with undue harshness upon Finland. In Washington, if nowhere else in the U. S., Finland is the national baby of 1939 that has taken the place of 1914 Baby Belgium...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
Brawny jack-tars of the Red Navy this week entered the harbor of Tallinn, Estonia's capital, on a hulking grey-snouted cruiser and ten smaller Soviet warships. To statesmen this was grim business, the physical establishment of the Red Navy on a base dominating Estonia and commanding the Gulf of Finland in accordance with the treaty which Dictator Stalin recently forced Estonia to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), but for the sailors it was a lark, an adventure into the strange world of Capitalism...