Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-01-30
A Saga Of the Baltic People
Some Facts You Should Know about the
Baltic People

system of the Soviets. Cultivation
of the soil is to be the main susie
nance of the "Amberlanders." Since
the harvests are given by God in
the fertility of the soil and physical
strength to cultivate it, the distri
button Of the resources of the AM
berland are subordinated to the mo-
tives of the service, for the needs
and welfare of the aged, sick, widows
and orphans, as well as the able
members of the Amberland Cooper
alton in fellowship and service will
protect and promote the welfare al
SO of the ''lesser brethern" This
is not regime imposed by the Bal
tic Evangelical Mission, but free
and voluntary service of love in re-
cognition of help that the Amber
landers are expecting to receive from
the Christian people in England and
America.
The continuation of Baltic Evan
gelical Missions gospel efforts from
the Baltic, at least for the time be-
ing, are being transplanted to Am
berland. May our burden and vision
endear itself to you, dear reader,
that we may have fellowship in this
work of faith and labor of love.
WHY SO MANY BALTIC DPS IN
GERMANY?
The displaced persons from Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia are the vic
tins of the second World War, re-
sulting from the unprovoked aggres-
siveness of Germany. Their only
fault is the fact that, due to the
geo-political situation of the Baltic
area, they again had to serve as an
anvil for the Slavic and Teuton
/. hammers, just as was the case in
the first World War and all earlier
wars. The only "crime" of the Bal
tic peoples is the fact that they
recognized neither communist sickle
and hammer nor the nazi swastika.
| They believed, and still believe, that
the Baltic area, which has been their
home for 400 years, historically and
culturally belongs within the sphere
of Western civilization, and that
therefore the same basic principles
governing human society in the Wes-
tern democracies must also be re-
vived in the Baltic.
Already in the first World War
f, the blood sacrificed by the Baltic
peoples for the benefit of the Allies
was relatively greater than that of
any other nation. Thus, for instance
the Latvian nation of 25 million per-
sons, lost between 1914-1920 some
+, 700 thousand persons, or 27 percent
of the total population. In spite of
that the vitality of the Baltic peo-
Piles was so strong that in their land,
! which had suffered more from the
war than Belgium, they raised upon
ruins and in very short time three
democratic republics, which, in re-
gard to economic, social and cul-
tural progress, could we'll have serv-
ed as a model for many small and
older states.
MOLCTOV'S AND RlBBENTROP'S
SECRET AGREEMENTS
In August 1889 in Moscow Foreign
Commissar Mr.. Molotov signed with
the German Foreign Minister Rib
bentrop the Russian-German non-ag-
aggression pact, and in addition two
secret agreements: one on August Z3
and the second on Sept. 20, 1889.
BY these agreements Stain obtain
ed from Hitler free hand in the Bal
tic States as being within the Rus
sian sphere of interests. In the op-
irrational maps printed at the end Of
Sept. 1889 by the general staff of
the Red Army, the Baltic States arc
marked as being Soviet republics and
parts of the U.S.S.R. All the further
political events in the Baltic, includ-
ing the puppet parliaments packed
by the Russian occupation authori-
ties with communists and fellow-tra-
velers, were only a clumsily played
farce produced by Moscow.
(To be continued)