Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990
The Trial of Lithuania
By Neal Ascherson
'Only an invertebrate degenerate could remain on the fence in such a quarrel.' So wrote an enraged man in 1922. Mr. Ernest Harrison, formerly British vice-consul in Kaunas and Vilnius, was describing the dispute between Lithuania and Poland, rather than that between Lithuania and Russia. This small, solemn country still has the power to seize the loyalties of outsiders.
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