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From Helsinki came more details of the Nazi plan to lose the war but win the peace. TIME Correspondent John Scott remained a week in Finland after the Germans took over, learned the argument which Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop advanced to lull the fears of Germans in the north. Cabled Scott...
...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...
...Game in Finland. "Applied to Finland, this meant keeping her in the war as long as possible, making plans to provoke civil war when Finnish arms collapse, securing maximum publicity in Finland and the Allied world for Finnish heroism contrasted with crude Russian vindictiveness and barbarism...
...walked into the press room of the Hotel Torni the afternoon of our break with Finland. A taciturn, potbellied, elderly German 'journalist,' Friedrich Borchman, vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Association, was playing chess. Borchman's main job is watching other German journalists for the Gestapo...
Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung of Zurich, Switzerland...