THERE is a strange contrast between the history of this sleepy Baltic port in the centuries prior to the Paris Peace Conference and its prominence in the subsequent fifteen years. Until 1917, Memel ...

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 22, 1939 (UP) - Lithuania surrendered Memel to Nazi Germany today under an implied ultimatum which said that if the annexation was effected peacefully Germany would ...

THE little town of Memel lies in the southeast corner of the Baltic at the northern outlet of the large, shallow Kurisches Haff. An ever-shifting sandbank, a little more than a mile in width, ...

Führer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the ...

Refugees from Memelland today refuted an official statement that no Jews were left in the territory just taken over by Germany, declaring that some 300 still remained in the smaller towns of the ...

The complaint that the Jews of Memel are keeping themselves aloof from national and cultural Jewish life is voiced today in the local newspaper Dos Folk. Memel is not only a Lithuanian problem, but ...