Word: finlander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants to declare war on Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, such as Britain once sent to Finland, was drawn up in three versions. Each note explained that, should the Government of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) persist in its attitude of contributing to Axis aggression, the U.S. would find itself obliged to consider itself at war with Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria). Then an unforeseen difficulty arose: who would deliver the notes? There are no more U.S. representatives in Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria); the diplomatic representatives of those countries are at the moment...
...with Canadian and U.S. expeditionary forces on hand in Britain, Norway looked inviting as a diversion theater, to distract the Germans from other fronts, if not yet as the Allied road back. A sweep across northern Norway would give the Allies a common U.S.-British-Soviet front, might knock Finland out of the war. Joseph Stalin is anxious to get his allies into some nearby field, even if their foray fails. The mere threat of action against Norway had already immobilized some 200,000 German soldiers who might have been killing Russians...
Spain's "Blue Division" was a full division of General Francisco Franco's regular Army, seasoned with a sprinkling of Moorish fighters. From the Scandinavian countries Germany got a few Swedes, Danes and Norwegians for a "Viking Division." Rumania, Hungary and Finland, promised territorial gains, sent heavy contributions...
...Lost their ally Finland, who made a separate peace...
...many war-weary months the people of Leningrad have known solemn, youthful Dmitri Shostakovich as a fire fighter, a trench digger, an embattled citizen like themselves. But the rest of the world has continued to think of him as the only living composer, aside from Finland's Jean Sibelius, who can make musical history by writing a new symphony. Last week musical history was again on the make. In Kuibyshev, secondary Soviet capital, the orchestra of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater began rehearsals on Shostakovich's long-heralded Symphony No. 7. Composer Shostakovich has dedicated his symphony...