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There was immense admiration, too, for the skillful powering of diplomacy with military might which had enabled the Russians within five months to knock out of the war four Axis satellites (Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary) and, with the help of Marshal Tito's Partisans, to liberate most of Yugoslavia and force the German withdrawal from Greece...
...seem a little weak at arithmetic. For the Polish group now unilaterally recognized by Moscow is the ninth of a series. The other political entities which the Soviet Union treats as 'governments,' in contrast to the U.S.A. and Britain, are the three Baltic states, the . . . administrations of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. If this process continues unchecked, we must, before this war ends, expect to see the Soviet Union set up further stooges in four more countries, namely, Austria, Slovakia, Iran and (why not?) Manchuria...
...Americans, must not forget," he said, "that when the Far East takes the place of Europe as the main theatre of war, we are going to feel about the islands of the Pacific, the coast of China, and the countries of southeastern Asia as Soviet Russia feels about Finland, the Baltic states, and the Balkans...
...Over Finland the long darkness of the subarctic winter nights had begun to close in. So had the political night. In Helsinki, an assassin fired five bullets at close range into the back of a Russian naval officer's head. The assassin escaped. Near Helsinki's airport a Finn, armed with a flatiron, attacked a Russian soldier. The Finn was arrested. At the same airport, a few days later, were found the murdered bodies of two Red Army officers. The shattered country was heaving and grinding like an ice floe...
...Premier Urko Castren, in crisis ever since the signing of the armistice with Russia last September, staggered out of office. In its place moved a new cabinet headed by Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 74. Dr. Paasikivi was persona grata in Moscow. He had helped negotiate three treaties that ended Finland's three wars with Russia-in 1920, 1940 and 1944. The national crisis was deferred, not ended...