SUICIDES AND ARRESTS
MANY TRAGEDIES IN THE BALTIC STATES DECISION TO ENTER SOVIET UNION LONDON, July 3.1. The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post's Helsinki correspondent say: that many tragedies among high, placed officials followed the decision of the Baltic States to enter the .Soviet Union. ! Dr. K. Ulmanis, President of Latvia died from heart failure the day thi decision was taken. Fourteen former | members of the Latvian Cabinet committed suicide and thousands oi I Lithuanians, including several formei I Ministers, were arrested. | A branch of the Soviet Foreign | Affairs Commissariat is replacing the I Latvian Foreign Office.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 5
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