Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Estonians from Erma in Norfolk, read your article in last number of TIME [Jan. 7] and we feel our story sympathitically treated, which we appreciate very much. But there were some errors, from which at least one might give the wrong impression of us. Namely: we did not wish to return to a Soviet-Estonia, as the Swedish Government recommanded us. This is why we left Sweden five months ago. But none of us left Estonia after the country "was taken over by Russia." Vice versa, all of us left our native land when it was occupied, entirely or dealwise...
ERMA'S ESTONIANS IN NORFOLK...
...Norfolk...
...after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles off Norfolk...
...LAWRENCE W. STRATTNER Norfolk...