Foreign News: One Thing Certain

In the Times of London appeared a long letter cabled from Russia, signed by the Red Army's Vladas Karvelis, commander of a Lithuanian division, and Johanes Lukas, Chief of Staff of the Estonian Rifle Corps. Their message: "By joining the Soviet Union and at the same time remaining independent masters of their countries the [Baltic] peoples acquired the broadest opportunities for national, cultural and economic development."

This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the...

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