Estonia.
The signature of a peace agreement with Soviet Russia did not lead to a cessation of hostile activities on the part of Estonia. Committees “for the assistance of Karelia” were organised on her territory, and monetary collections were made for the “White” Karelian insurgents.
Already, at the Moscow Conference on the limitation of armaments in 1922, Estonia had submitted completely to the leadership of Finland.
In 1924 the Minister for Home Affairs of Estonia, Einbund, in a public speech, made lying and unfounded accusations against the U.S.S.R. After a sharp note of protest from the Soviet Government the Estonia Government was compelled to admit that the information made public by Einbund, as well as his conclusions therefrom, were based on false reports and had been proved erroneous. Einbund himself was soon afterwards compelled to resign. In 1925 the Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pusta, manifested exceptional hostility towards the Soviets. He was one of the active initiators of the Helsingfors Conference of the Baltic States which was held in January, 1925. Although the official negotiations at this Conference of the four Baltic States (Finland, Poland, Latvia, and Estonia) only resulted in the signature of an arbitration Treaty, side by side with this Conference in Helsingfors consultations took place between representatives of the General Staffs of Poland, Rumania, and the Baltic countries (with the exception of Lithuania). These conversations were carried on in Riga; the participants for a long time stubbornly denied that any such consultations of the General Staffs had taken place, and it was only after the Soviet Government had presented facts which could not he denied that the Latvian Minister for Home Affairs was compelled to admit that such consultations had indeed taken place in Riga.
The Protocols of these Conferences or consultations which were discovered after the union of the Baltic States with the U.S.S.R., leave no room for doubt whatever that at all of them plans for united military activity against the U.S.S.R. had been discussed.
Simultaneously, the Estonian Government openly sabotaged the negotiations for the conclusion of a Pact of Non-Aggression and Neutrality—negotiations which had been proposed to Estonia by the Soviet Government in 1926. This open sabotage was revealed in a speech of the Estonian Minister in Moscow, Birk, who gave incontestable facts showing how Estonian foreign policy was dependent on the Polish General Staff.
- ABOUT
- Booklet Cover
- INTRODUCTION
- SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY IN RELATION TO THE BALTIC STATES, 1917-1920.
- THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.S.R. and POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH THE BALTIC STATES, 1920-1927
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.S.R. AND HER RELATIONS WITH THE BALTIC COUNTRIES IN THE PERIOD, 1927-1933, The Moscow Protocol.
- The Lapuan Movement in Finland.
- The “Aisargs” in Latvia and the “Veterans” in Estonia.
- The Treaties of Non-Aggression and Neutrality Between the U.S.S.R. and the Baltic States.
- The Foreign Policy of the U.S.S.R. and Her Relations With the Baltic States in the Period 1933-1939.
- The Eastern Pact.
- The Peace Initiative of the U.S.S.R. in 1934.
- The Anglo-French-Soviet Negotiations of 1939 and the Position of the Baltic States.
- The U.S.S.R. and the Baltic Countries in 1939-1940.
- Conclusion