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This week the Soviet Dictator, giving the panicky North Baltic not an instant's respite, set the Moscow radio to suggesting that Finland and Lithuania too "lease" bases to Russia in return for "trade." A German correspondent in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, flashed reports that its Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys would shortly speed to Moscow...
...Nazi invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon, or long sustain, secret agreements to be disclosed...
Thus with great circumspection the Dictator told the people what part of Poland Russia intended to get-i.e., the Polish Ukraine, the northeast area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then suddenly, as the Germans struck southward toward Polish oil fields, cutting off Polish retreat to Rumania, getting within 80 miles of the Russian frontier, Russian troops crossed the Polish border on a 500-mi. front...
...Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Rumania, Lithuania, Norway, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic, and the Tuva People's Republic...
March 22. Hitler seized from Lithuania the onetime German port of Memel...