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...worth of U. S. goods each year (purchased last year: $68,000,000).* There were other signs last week that the U. S. and Russia, both leery of Japan, were mutually interested in closer relations. Two weeks after he damned the Soviet conquests of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Acting Secretary of State Welles had two friendly talks with the U. S. S. R.'s witty, chubby Ambassador Constantine Oumansky. The U. S. Maritime Commission meanwhile sanctioned the charter of two U. S. tankers to carry gasoline to Russia, simultaneously refused to let two other ships sail with oil and steel...
Norway under the Nazis still manages to be Norway, and even Poland keeps a species of impotent nationality in its Government General. But the Russians do things differently. Last week, as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia officially became Russian Republics Nos. 15, 16, 17, liquidation of their nationalism began. Hundreds of men were arrested, including all leaders of former regimes that the Ogpu could lay hands on. Tribunals were set up to try and punish "traitors to the people." Traitors to the people included not only active opponents of sovietization but all those who have fallen short of their political...
Having made his grab of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that...
Within six weeks Russia occupied and socialized three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, took outright from Rumania, Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. Last week the Red Army was feverishly digging in along the east bank of the Prut while Premier Molotov kept southeast Europe sweating in steam from three valves...
...interested Soviet foreign policy not as it seems to Nazi-menaced democrats seeking anywhere for an ally, not as it appears in the radical and liberal press, but as it is in reality. He proposed to record the gulps by which Soviet imperialism swallowed Georgia, Outer Mongolia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and parts of Finland...