Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which in exchange for trade favors had agreed to permit Red Army, Navy and Air Force units to dominate its soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous...
...march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...face Stalin and Molotov they asked him to sign approximately the same form of treaty as was forced upon Estonia, except that it was "more flexible" from the Russian point of view, provided that an indefinite number of "airdromes" and "bases" shall be leased by Latvia as the Red Air Force and Army may later require, while the Red Navy leases bases in the ports of Libau and Windau. Again J. Stalin demanded exchange of ratifications within six days, but departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply packed off home by air as Mr. Selter had been. The Moscow railway...
Large Soviet forces arrived this week in Libau and Windau, so large that Latvians feared more Red Army troops would be quartered on them than there are soldiers in the Latvian Army...
Lithuanian Maginot? Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys, who followed Estonia's Selter and Latvia's Munters to Moscow, was reputedly presented with a startling Soviet proposal that the Red Army should construct strong fortifications along the Lithuanian frontier with Germany and should have the main railways crossing Lithuania from her ports to Russia permanently patrolled by Soviet forces, in addition to establishment of Red "bases." Lithuania asked that its former capital Wilno, which was seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno...