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Owen J. C. Norem, Minister to Lithuania...
Sidney Hillman was born in Zagare, Lithuania, then part of Russia, second of seven children of a Jewish merchant. He studied to be a rabbi, got too close to a workers' movement, spent ten months in jail, finally fled Russia for England. From there he migrated to Chicago, worked for 18 months as a clerk, got a job as an apprentice cutter with Hart Schaffner & Marx which paid, after three years, $11 a week. A strike at the plant plunged him into labor struggles. In 1914 he became first president of an infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been president...
...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
...capitalist encirclement." Troops of the Western Military District opened their regular fall maneuvers near the frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyösti Kallio...
Under arrest and liable to prompt liquidation were Estonia's onetime President Konstantin Päts, Latvia's onetime President Karlis Ulmanis and Foreign Minister Vilhelms Hunters, Lithuania's onetime Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys. Special justice, including immediate confiscation of property and execution within 24 hours if they are bagged, was decreed for diplomats abroad who refuse to recognize the new regimes and return home...