“ LAlIIVILLL LL inAVLUAL a Author, Dublin, Ireland Touché from the Balts ese The Financial Times, a publication of based in the former Roman province, an Anglo-Saxon settlement zone, and a rm | possession of the Dukes of Normandy, keeps referring to the Baltic states, which were occupied by the Soviet | Union for over 50 years, as “former re * | Soviet republics” (“Europe already ‘at e | war with Russia, says Latvia's central | banker”, Report, January 18). | Perhaps the FT does not know that ess- | the UK did not recognise Soviet bi 3 sovereignty over them and that the ns | British view is that they were never ges | Soviet republics. : | Pfr Sine leaked y of California, San Diego, nd Russell on Marx, hate Glad ow 3%es