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AMSTERDAM--Northeastern Europe suffered tonight in the paralyzing grip of the bitterest cold in more than 100 years and hundreds of persons evacuated homes in the face of crushing ice packs boiling up from ice-locked canals, rivers and seas...
...other. If Russia had Sortavala, the mobility of the Finnish Army would be dangerously curtailed and Russia would have a railroad on which to drive toward Viipuri. For two months the Russians have been trying to take this town. Last week their effort had developed into one of the bitterest battles...
...front here is ... a vast area of forests filled with Finnish and Russian patrols who are continually meeting and dueling in the bitterest weather conditions of any war ever fought. . . . The soldiers' daily routine is one or two hours of patrol, then back to the headquarters hut where they sleep in a big room for two or three hours, then out again for an hour or two and back for four. This goes on continuously, the men never getting out of their clothes, except to take a Finnish steam-bath every couple of days, when they must undress...
...Tsaritsin there began one of the bitterest political enmities of modern times-the Stalin-Trotsky feud. Trotsky claimed that Stalin, a political commissar at that time, was insubordinate. He demanded and got from Lenin an order recalling him. Thereafter, Comrade Stalin patiently and calculatingly nursed his grudge against Comrade Trotsky...
...Lincoln was up against a Congress in which at one time there were just three Representatives defending him. During the bitterest weeks of the war his own family came under suspicion of treason. One of the most awesome scenes in the book is that of the secret meeting which the Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War held early in 1863 to consider this rumor. A member told...