Word: tallinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow to try to conclude a three-way alliance with the U. S. S. R., another British mission was reported heading for Danzig. No one knew anything about it, except that its leader was a certain Professor Riley, and that it was vaguely economic. In Tallinn, Estonia, a reporter of the Swedish Aftonbladet credited the mysterious Professor Riley with a startling declaration: "In Britain we are by no means convinced of the vital necessity of Danzig for Poland. . . . The Commission has undertaken its trip under Government inspiration. I'm convinced that the results of our inquiry will have...
...damage their potatoes, news turned on word of health rather than richness, movement more than stagnation, growth and not decay. Sunny days attended Queen Wilhelmina's visit to the Liege Exposition in Belgium, where Wuthering Heights packed them in and unemployment dropped 3,000 in a month. In Tallinn, walled capital of Estonia, night clubs were open all night; in Kiev, at the Park of Culture and Rest, huge, heavy-looking trees brooded over the Dnepr and over the cleared spaces where, on the warm evenings, dances were held. Planting and raising things, betting on games, going to fairs...
...invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
...Until a thwarted Nazi putsch so alarmed President Konstantin Pats last year that he declared a state of martial law, Estonia had ignored the death penalty entirely. Confronted with the new problem of how to execute Estonians, President Pats devised a system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always in a different glade. This stirred so much criticism that finally the President thought up a better system: the prisoner might have the choice of hanging or downing a cup of poison. Should the poison fail to work in five minutes, he should be hanged anyway...
Each Estonian condemned to death at Tallinn has been led out into the nearby forest by eight soldiers and there shot, always in a different part of the forest. To give condemned Estonians a choice, President Päts decreed last week as follows: "One hour before the scheduled time of the execution, the condemned shall be taken to a death cell, where the state prosecutor will read the death sentence and ask the prisoner whether he is willing to commit suicide. If the answer is in the affirmative, the prosecutor will hand the condemned a glass of poison...