Today Is the 80th Anniversary of the Welles Declaration!

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Today Is the 80th Anniversary of the Welles Declaration!

Eighty years ago today, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles issued the Welles Declaration, in which the United States condemned the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and refused to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic states.

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