Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-09-01
THE {: pERlscopE
BY sARUNAS.

IN A RADIO address the Earl
of Halifax, British Ambassador to
the United States, declared that
world security rests on Allies post
war unity. The Lithuanians fear
this unity will be achieved at the
price, among other things, of Lithu-
anian, Latvian and Estonian liber-
ty.
C. L, SULZBERGER, of the New
York Times, gives the strong Rus
sian desire for secure boundaries
as reason that the Baltic States
remained center of international
discussion since 1918. The Ger
man extremists at Brest-Litovsk
'forced Russia to cede what first
st. Petersburg and then Moscow
had long regarded at it's own pro-
vinces in the Baltic States, Eastern
Poland and Finland. Mr.. Sulzber-
ger goes on to say, "unquestionably
Allied policy after the last war re-
garding these regions was morally
based on the principles of self-de-
termination as expressed by Presi-
dent Wilson, but the fact remains
that despite the nationalistic feel.
ings of the Poles and Firms and
the Baltic States, the average Rus
sian considered those areas almost
as lost provinces and this tendency
officially crystalized on the eve of
the present conflict.
THE ALLIED policy was right.
The Lithuanians, the Firms and the
Poles have as much right to self
determination and security as the
Russians. Under a wise good neigh
Dor policy, Moscow can get all the
security (and much more) of her
western frontiers she wants. Her
present unilateral solutions are no
solutions. They are tale full of
sound and fury, signifying nothing.
III
A NOTED Russian correspon-
dent, Ilya oEhrenburg, visited Lith-
uania reoccupied from the Nazis
and says: "Moscow to Vilnius is
about 620I miles. I travelled this
road. I~saw only rubble and ashes,
weeds and graves. / saw the ashes
of villages where all the popula-
tion, including infants, had been
murdered by Germans.
FROM Stockholm, George Axel-
son reports to the New York Times:
'Nazi food supply experts counted
on the benefits Of excellent crops
in the Baltic countries. What Ger
mans sowed out there the Russians
have now come to reap! For the
Reich food supply situation the loss
of the Baltic countries means a
further reduction of food rations".
ANOTHER German problem is
the return of the so-called Volks-
deutsche who were assigned to
farms stolen from Lithuanian and
Latvian peasants. They have to
go back to the Reich which has no
room for them. Mingled among
the Volksdeutsche are Germans
evacuated to Lithuania from bonn
bed German districts. The Lithu-
anians are glad to rid of this horde
of Hitler's savages.
DURING the Fifth War Loan
Drive Chicago Lithuanians pur-
chased bonds for total of $4,200,-
900, or S7Ro their quota. They took
sixth place among nationality
groups.
THE OFFICE of War Informa-
tion in Washington announces that
the construction of a Liberty ship
to be named Stepas Darius has be-
gun. 1t is financed by New York
State Lithuanians who purchased
over two million dollars worth of
War Ronds for this purpose curing
the Foruth War Loan Drive.
V. RIMsAITIS, a former student
of the Lithuanian Indianapolis
College, has written story "The
Brothers of the Paddock, which
appears in the September Esquire.
Rimsaitis is 21 and now is in the
u. S. Coast Guard.
THE LITHUANIANS OF Phila-
delphia bought enough of bonds