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...Narva, some 680 miles to the north, the Russians hoped to score their next major success. After weeks of hammering, they had crossed the Narova River, breached the defenses put up by the Germans in their flight from Leningrad. Russian naval officers spoke of being in Estonia's Tallinn within a month...
Pobeda I. To short, rotund General Leonid Govorov went the credit for the most momentous of the four successes. A month earlier he had been besieged in Leningrad. This week the Leningrad front was no more: Govorov's armies fought on Estonian soil. Estonia's capital, Tallinn, was only 150 mi. away...
Chief of this laboratory is a quiet little apple-cheeked Finn named Eliel Saarinen, who in the past 40 years has also redesigned European towns from Budapest to Tallinn, Estonia, and who is widely regarded as the greatest living authority on city planning...
...writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy, one may at least try to create...
When World War I began, Alfred was studying architecture in Moscow. He disapproved of the Russian nobility, who, unlike the Baltic nobles, were occasionally cordial to Jews and other social inferiors. He despised the Communists. After they took power, he had returned to Tallinn to teach drawing and preach antiSemitism. In 1919, when the Communists approached Estonia, Alfred took his leave...