position as Argentina's first supplier incorporation of the three Baltic States into the Soviet The United States is improving its Tallinn, Estonia, Sept. 30.
and Great Britain, although still in Union has closed, at least for the time being, a chapter which the lead among sellers, is buying Ies] was opened not quite a year ago when Joachim von Ribbentrop main facts emerging from analysis of and Josef Stalin marked off the "spheres of interest" of their Argentine foreign trade for the first} countr: half of 1940. states the "Christian Soviet Russia then was allotted a free hand in all Baltic Science Monitor. countries—a term which incidentally according to German and The United States sold to the extent of 163,000,000 pesos. This represented a 279 per cent participation. Last year the figures were 89,000,000 pesos and 152 per cent. Great Britain's comparative figures were 120,000,000 pesos and 20.6 per cent Russian interpretation also includes Finland. For reasons which are probably known to Stalin and his advisers alone, Russia did not at once make full use of this free hand, but the grip around the three Baltic countries was gradually tightened until the ultimate aim, the incorporation into the U.S.S.R., was achieved.
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