Word: baltic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
There was, for example, the comparatively petty problem of the Baltic States -Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It has been an open secret in England that, as an earnest of Britain's sincerity, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov had asked for British endorsement of Russia's title to the Baltic States (which had been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide...
...feared that a Baltic settlement would be loudly damned by the Senate, the body that repudiated Wilson's doctrine of self-determination...
British guess was that the cruiser, recently torpedoed by an English sub, was being moved somewhere-probably into the Baltic-for dockyard repairs...
...announced whereabouts of four Nazi capital ships: at Trondheim, Norway, the 35,000-ton Tirpitz and pocket battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...