Day of thanksgiving to the U.S.

Jul 28, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

VILNIUS - On July 23, the 70th anniversary of the Welles Declaration was marked in Washington Square, in Vilnius. On that day in 1940, a month after USSR troops entered the three Baltic countries, acting U.S. Secretary of State Sumner Welles issued a statement which laid the foundations for a policy that did not recognize the annexation of the Baltics by the Soviet Union. Despite the tropical heat, all major Lithuanian state leaders, except President Dalia Grybauskaite, showed up to the c ...

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