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White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finm'sh Republic [i.e., the parts of Finland ceded to Russia...
...managing editor of the now-defunct Vanity Fair in 1920, associate editor of the New Republic from 1926 to 1931. Since then he has been writing the books that have made him the foremost intellectual's intellectual in the U.S. (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, The Triple Thinkers}, now lives quietly with his third wife, Novelist Mary McCarthy, and their polysyllabic four-year-old son in Wellfleet, Mass...
...Finland will want to be reestablished as an honorable European state," predicted the German biographer. He continued by prophesying that Norway would be willing to give the United Nations bases on her northern coasts for patrolling the Atlantic
...U.S.S.R. wants a strong, friendly, de-Nazied Germany, the U.S. and Britain want a weakened Germany. Russia, as her press plainly said last week, refuses even to discuss the Soviet domination of her "security belt" in the Baltic States, eastern Poland, prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the parts of Finland seized in 1940, all of which belonged to Czarist Russia...
...Dark, swarthy, forceful Andrei Zhdanov is the Leningrad party boss, a member of the Soviet Union's omnipotent nine-man Politburo, an intimate friend of Stalin. Before the war, he urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness...