REICH PAYS HIGH PRICE IN BALTIC FOR SOVIET AID

The new alignment in the Baltic States, far from indicating the final solution of the Russo-German conflict, merely marks the latest stage in a thousand-year old struggle to determine whether the Baltic shall be a Slavic or Teutonic lake. . . . The truly appalling price that Germany has paid for its Russian alliance is now evident. Reichsf"uhrer Hitler who clamors for colonies, voluntarily surrendered all claim to Germany's oldest colonies - the Baltic States.

The repatriation of the Baltic Germans was the tangible down payment which Joseph Stalin, himself no novice at double-crossing, demanded of his Nazi partner.

In recalling 100,000 German-speaking inhabitants from Latvia and Estonia, Herr Hitler destroyed the cultural, economic, and political ties which had linked these provinces to Germany for 700 years.

The Monitor is looking back at the events of World War II.