Word: lithuanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Drew Pearson reported that "The Hat" was once again in line for the job of Allied High Commissioner in Rome. Cracked LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight...
...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...
...Lithuanian-born Chaim Soutine was said by friends to have died of fear that the Germans would attack...
...which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to fluency in a language which shares the grammatical intricacies of Sanskrit, Lithuanian, or Russian. It is therefore impossible to give the reader who wishes to learn Russian any good advice except to take the precaution of being born and brought up in Russia. . . . Shortcomings of the Russian language . . . signify . . . the existence of a powerful social obstacle to cultural relations between the Soviet...
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...