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...over 50,000 Polish troops along the frontier of Lithuania, which has an army of some 22,000. When the sabre had been thoroughly rattled, Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Foreign Minister Josef Beck, just back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that the "state of war'' which has existed between Poland and Lithuania for nearly 18 years give way to peace, that the closed and barbed-wire-strung frontier between the two countries be opened, that they resume diplomatic relations, that railway...
...Next the Smetona Government announced with as little alarmism as circumstances permitted, that Lithuania's Army is accepting volunteers "since last year's enlistment resulted in a decline of army capacity...
...Lithuania the implications of this statement have been slowly sinking in. Last week grave, cautious President Antanas Smetona ordered Lithuanian youths whose term of military service normally would expire May 31 to remain with the colors another 60 days...
...office, he resorted to writing unpleasant letters to President Antanas Smetona. The letters finally caused his arrest. Characteristically. Professor Valdemaras insisted on signing the order for his arrest himself, since he was still Lithuania's Prime Minister. Then he allowed himself to be interned on an estate near Kroettingen for one year...
...flagship of the Lithuanian Navy is a chugging, wallowing armed minesweeper, the President Smetona. Last week Lithuanians were shamefaced and vexed when a pirate ship, the Hassan Birr, which has been terrorizing Baltic seacoast villages for over a month, escaped for the eleventh time, after being sighted, fired at and chased by the wallowing President Smetona. Fisherfolk who have been piratically molested by the Hassan Birr describe her crew as a rollicking, unblood-thirsty gang of Finns, Poles, Germans, Swedes led by a fierce red-bearded swashbuckler who claims to be a Lithuanian...