THE BALTIC STATES
ATTITUDE TO RUSSIA. “The three Baltic 'States command not only the approaches to Leningrad by land and sea,” says Mr Garvin in the “Observer,” “but the bases of the main routes from the west towards Moscow. It is childish not to face the realism of this affair as it touches Soviet interests. The independence of Belgium,. Holland, and Switzerland is not more essential to the life of the Western democracies than is the effective neutrality of Finland, Esto-
nia and Latvia to the security of Soviet Russia. The theory of M. Molotoff’s ease is perfect, but as usual in human affairs real facts are more complicalted than pure logic. The difficulty it that the three Baltic States do not want to be guaranteed. They protest against it. Unless and until they may be compelled they do hot want to take sides with either of the great European combinations. They dread Nazi ambitions, but they do not love the memory of their former Subjection to the Tsars. They want to preserve their neutrality until the last possible moment, and to give no excuse for armed interference either by Berlin or Moscow.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4187, 18 September 1939, Page 6
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