BALTIC STATES
Incorporation in Soviet MANY TRAGEDIES RESULT LONDON, July 31. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Helsinki correspondent says that many tragedies among highly-placed officials followed the decision of the Baltic States to enter the Soviet Union. M. Ulmanis, President of Latvia, died from heart failure on the day the decision was taken. Fourteen ex-members of the Latvian Cabinet committed suicide. Thousands of Lithuanians, including several ex-Ministers were arrested.
A branch of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissariat is replacing th.e Latvian Foreign Office.
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Grey River Argus, 2 August 1940, Page 8
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