Word: lithuania
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...Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
...raised itself. Premier DeGasperi took the floor to speak for two hours. He began with a Ciceronian dunque (Now then) and went on to point out what had happened to other nations with which Russia had signed non-aggression pacts. He listed them off-Finland, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-and then, while the Communist benches sat silently, he carefully gave dates and detail of how Russia had later invaded or occupied them...
...Great Confession. Louis Finkelstein was born in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895. His father, Simon J. Finkelstein, a strong-minded Orthodox rabbi from Slobodka, Lithuania, moved to a congregation in Brooklyn when Louis was seven. It was there, in Brooklyn's heavily Jewish Brownsville district, that Louis grew...
Three have come from battle-torn Korea, and one each from Latvia, and Lithuania. Other nations with just one representative are British Guiana, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraqu, Malaya, New Zealand, Turkey, and Venezuala...
...ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with his birds. He scrabbled hard to get enough lucerne (alfalfa) for his hungry flock. "Usually they ate and I didn't," Max recalls. "Sometimes we shared the lucerne between...