Word: lithuania
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Memel and Memel territory (a narrow strip of land along the Niemen's north bank) are old East Prussian land. They were given to Lithuania after World War I; Hitler took them back by a bloodless coup in the spring of 1939. Fighting for Memel as desperately as they fought for Aachen on the west front, the Germans last week threw in four reinforcement divisions, launched 30 counterattacks in one day. They even attempted, vainly, an amphibious attack behind the Russian lines. At week's end Bagramian isolated the post by a drive south of it which reached...
...Lithuania, where they had held a stabilized line for months, the Germans suddenly caved in before a massive Soviet assault which carried most of the way to the Lithuanian coast and the north border of East Prussia...
West of Shavh, a rail-junction town in northern Lithuania, Red Army guns thundered. By the Berlin radio's account, the Russians "launched a new offensive with armored and battle formations after subjecting the main German defense line to a drumfire barrage of heaviest caliber." Berlin added that the penetrations achieved were "temporary...
Ticklish Topic. The N.Y. Times's James B. Reston offered an explanation. What Russia feels, he pointed out, is that Estonia,* Latvia, Lithuania and Poland east of the Curzon Line are her legitimate business,.not to be meddled with by outsiders. She fears that at some future time the Baltic States or Poland might appeal to the security league, charge Russia with aggression against them. The U.S. and Britain might be inclined to listen...
...they had only a few more days left to fight outside the borders of the Reich. With Estonia and Latvia going and the larger part of Lithuania already gone, the Red Army would soon ring East Prussia around two-thirds of its perimeter...