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...Germans still held four Estonian islands blocking the mouth of the Gulf of Riga-the large islands of Dagö and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu. Last week the Russians seized Vormsi and Muhu by amphibious assault, landed marines and tanks. Berlin claimed that German warships had tangled with the Red Fleet, now freely ranging the eastern Baltic, and had sunk many landing barges-but there was no claim of dislodging the Reds from their island footholds. Heavier naval action in the Baltic seemed likely soon...
...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
...star. The first eleven members of the Allied Armistice Control Commission-Russians all-shook hands briefly with Foreign Minister Enckell, started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns looked...
...Times of London appeared a long letter cabled from Russia, signed by the Red Army's Vladas Karvelis, commander of a Lithuanian division, and Johanes Lukas, Chief of Staff of the Estonian Rifle Corps. Their message: "By joining the Soviet Union and at the same time remaining independent masters of their countries the [Baltic] peoples acquired the broadest opportunities for national, cultural and economic development...
Allied Raw Spot. Neither the U.S. nor Britain ever recognized the Russian annexation of the Baltic States in June 1940; each still permits the operation of the old Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian diplomatic agencies in London, Washington and New York...