Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism that crushed Hungary and swallowed up the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, lived in France, and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. but he had none of these lands in mind when he sat down one day with pen and paper. "I feel good today,'' he wrote. "My mind is clear and quiet, and I choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza...
While three "worthy, honest and decent little countries" (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia) have vanished outright from the map and seven more have been sealed behind the Iron Curtain, Gunther finds that Western Europe, by contrast, is a far more hopeful place. In most countries, "democratic impulses are comfortably on the ascendant." Europe is enjoying an unparalleled boom, and the Common Market has pushed it closer to economic unity in a quarter-century than it had moved in the previous 500 years. More important, U.S. troops guard the Rhine. For if one thing has not changed, says Gunther, it is Germany...