Abstract

The Vulnerable Baltic

In observing the attempt to build a stop-Adolf Hitler, a Nazi dictator of Germany wall in Eastern Europe, Europe have focused nearly all its attention on Poland, Rumania, and Turkey. Yet it would be a serious mistake to assume that once the safety of the Poles and Rumanians is guaranteed against Nazi aggression, the peace of Europe is assured. Unless Latvia, Estonia, and Finland receive similar guaranties from the "peace front," a vulnerable area will be left in the eastern anti-axis wall. Hitler could breach that wall at his leisure. Indeed, the failure of Britain and France to guarantee the independence of the Baltic nations would in itself be a virtual invitation to the Nazis to strike in that quarter. For reasons of their own the British have not made any move to strengthen the Latvian-Estonian area in the eastern wall. Instead, they have concentrated their efforts on winning the adherence of the Soviet Union to their peace front." Without the inclusion of these Baltic states in the anti-aggression pacts, the stop-Hitler movement in the east is incomplete.