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...friendship was Mr. Willkie's very tactfully expressed concern over the eventual fate of Poland and the Baltic nations (see p. 18). Proclaimed Pravda with an air of angry finality: "The question of the near Baltic republics is an internal affair of the U.S.S.R." And: "In respect to Finland and Poland . . . the Soviet Union will be able to get an agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also to be heard by the President...
...sore issue of Russia's border states-Finland's Karelia, the Baltics, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia-has been specifically discussed before, if not at Teheran. Russia has agreed to submit the status of the Baltics-Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania-to public referendums after the war. Russia is very sure that the peoples of those countries will vote for their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
...Whether Rumania and Finland will exist at all after the war is open to question. Rumania may be chewed up by Hungary and Bulgaria; Finland may have a choice of total submission to Russia now or total inclusion within the Soviet Union later...
...Rumors that Finland was about to ask for peace with Russia suddenly recurred in Stockholm. The Swedish press reported that Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, elderly banker and diplomat who took part in the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations of 1940, had been asked to prepare for another trip to Moscow...
...Poland among the countries which are to be liberated and restored to independence. But nothing indicated that Russia proposes to give up the territory taken from eastern Poland in 1939. And it was evident that Stalin, in Moscow's aftermath, expected to preserve his western borders intact, with Finland's Karelia, the Baltic states and Bessarabia incorporated as Soviet territory...