Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy Privateer in the Baltic in 1950; an other, the Neptune bomber shot down off the coast of Korea last year ; the third was of Red fighters forcing down a U.S. cargo plane in Hungary last winter. The Krem lin has never directly admitted the shooting down of the planes...
...threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave for service in Korea. "Today," he said, "the consequences of this misplaced trust come home to everyone...
Across the heart of Germany, from the Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
...north, at the Baltic Sea, an old German stood in sorrow, watching the waves curling up the gritty beach at the seaside town of Travemünde. The waves split on a two-foot iron stake threaded with barbed wire. "The Communists," he said, "are not content with splitting our country. They are even splitting...
...side, is now willing to begin a world war which would jeopardize the empire he has created in 30 bloody years. In the satellite countries, the Kremlin is currently troubled not only by sullen populaces, but by unsatisfactory puppets. Finally, except for routine sea-air maneuvers in the Eastern Baltic and some spring exercises in East Germany, there have been no reports of major Soviet military moves...