I HAVE ALWAYS felt that, when we hope for a
revival of demo' cracy in Eastern Europe, we are inclined to neglect the utile tunate Baltic States. Russia got Lithuania by swapping it with Hitler for a slice of Polish territory—about as cynical a piece of imperialism as I know of. It now appears that the mas' sive deportations by which Serov attempted to break the Lithu' anian spirit have not had that effect. The students have been demonstrating in Vilna and Kaunas. The arrest of people dis• turbing public order has been announced and the local Con,' munist leaders have complained that both students and professors have fallen under the influence of alien ideology' `Bourgeois nationalism' has also begun to raise its head. Russia has been unable to digest this little subject people. Let us hope that one day she will have to disgorge.
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