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...Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which in exchange for trade favors had agreed to permit Red Army, Navy and Air Force units to dominate its soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous...
HELSINGFORS, Finland--Soviet Russian troops numbering close to 25,000 began marching into Estonia tonight to occupy the strategic islands of Oesel and Dagee and set up military garrisons under provisions of the now Soviet Estonian pact of mutual assistance...
Displacing from Tallins, reporting that Red Army forces crossed the frontier from the cast at nightfall said that the 25,000 troops would be installed on Estonian soil on a permanent basis...
Fist Over Latvia. So pleased was J. Stalin with his Estonian success that the Dictator told that country's luckless Foreign Minister to stop at Riga on his way home and "invite" the Latvian Government to yield to Russia in return for trade favors, a naval base at Libau...
...hustle to Moscow this week with a delegation empowered to sign. This obviously cut two ways: on the one hand Russia has taken efficient measures to exclude the Germans from Estonia and Latvia; on the other hand the Soviet Union has obtained the use of fine, ice-free Estonian and Latvian harbors through which Russian supplies could be routed to Germany after Leningrad freezes up late this month...