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Russia was not known to be against the bloc. In London a high Russian official had nodded approval: "Geography and economic interest dictate bloc formation." Liberated Belgium favored the bloc. The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark might come in once they had been freed. But France was the indispensable partner...
...representative of a fully liberated country, was the first to come to London. Next, probably, would be Luxembourg's astute Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech. Soon Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden would pay a ceremonial call on General Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Later, when their countries had been freed, the plenipotentiaries of the other Atlantic states would come to London...
...bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
...been four and a half years since the Wehrmacht swooped down on thunderstruck Norway in April 1940. Now, as the Nazi sun was sinking, the first little sliver of Norway was freed. Last week, far north in the Arctic, where Norway borders on Finland, the Russians pounded over the line in pursuit of the Germans, then took over the iron-ore port of Kirkenes, used by the Germans as a submarine and air base against the Allied northern sea route to Russia, and fought on some 15 miles westward...
Winter was coming in the Baltic; the Red armies moved swiftly. Driving down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, they crossed the Latvian border, freed the whole mainland of Estonia. In Tallinn, an ice-free port most of the year, work crews began repairs on the harbor installations, the power plant generators spun again, the government of a Soviet Socialist Republic reassembled...