Word: lithuania
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From East Prussia strong German forces drove north into Lithuania. The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) afforded a particularly tempting target. Russia seized them in June 1940-as the Germans did after the Red revolt in 1917. The people remain disaffected, and Adolf Hitler made the most of their feelings...
Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...
...less precious than that ephemeral thing called unity-the artificial union of diverse Slavic tribes into the post-World War I state called Yugoslavia. Although all the other artificially-created post-war States had disappeared or been dismembered in two short years-Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-Yugoslavia's leaders still hoped somehow to hold their own state together-and to keep their jobs. They were thinking not only of the tough, freedom-loving, German-hating Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Bosnians, but also of the Croats, the Slovenes and the Slavonians, those northern minorities which found...
...Hitler because the Nazis ruled that services could not be held anywhere in Germany before 10 a.m. after nights with British air raids-a rule which keeps many German Catholics from attending mass. > Baptists in the 'Baltic area of the U. S. S. R. (until last year Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) were bravely enduring new active persecution by the Soviet Government...
...student at M. I. T., Marcus has spent many years abroad. He will discuss the background of the Russian invasion of Latvia, Lithuania, and Esthonia, and will answer questions after his talk...