Word: lithuania
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...country completely in 1795-96. Although Napoleon briefly resuscitated the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, the country did not regain real independence until after the World War when, by grants from Versailles, plebiscites and seizures on its own initiative, it was pieced together from parts of Germany, Russia, Austria, Lithuania...
...first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly and persistently on Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once...
...Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...
...Polish Ukrainians toned down, temporarily at least. On his part, Foreign Minister Beck was reported to have agreed to: 1) formal annexation by Germany of Danzig, already completely Nazified but still nominally under League of Nations supervision; 2) special status for the Germans in Memel, still part of Lithuania, but actually ruled by local Nazis directed from Berlin...
...shadow fell far beyond Germany's frontiers. Small, neighboring States (Denmark, Norway, Czecho-Slovakia, Lithuania, the Balkans, Luxembourg, The Netherlands) feared to offend him. In France Nazi pressure was in part responsible for some of the post-Munich anti-democratic decrees. Fascism had intervened openly in Spain, had fostered a revolt in Brazil, was covertly aiding revolutionary movements in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania. In Finland a foreign minister had to resign under Nazi pressure. Throughout eastern Europe after Munich the trend was toward less freedom, more dictatorship. In the U. S. alone did democracy feel itself strong enough at year...