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...lootings of Britain's shipping magnates at the prospect of a big, permanent U.S. merchant fleet ... on the strength of Lord Louis Mountbatten's command in Southeast Asia and the signs that action over there cannot be far away . . . on the Nazis' growing peripheral headaches-in Finland, more restless every day-in Sweden, now openly defiant-in the Balkans, where the rising tide of rebellion is almost reaching the proportions of another front...
...west, the Soviet Union therefore is determined to have a territorial "security belt.". In all probability these areas-the Baltic States, old Poland's "White Russia," prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the northern lands taken from Finland in 1940-will not be subject to discussion at the conferences...
...Under Generals von Falkenhorst, Daluege and Dietl, there are twelve Nazi divisions in Norway, five in Denmark, five to seven in Finland. Many of the troops in Norway are over age, wounded in other campaigns...
...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...
...Finn who has known all along that Finland would have to meet Russia's terms, not set her own, is 73-year-old ex-Foreign Minister Kuho Justi Paasikivi ,(TIME, Aug. 30). Last week he still sat at home, waiting a call to visit Stalin and get down to business...