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...pressed for heavy use of tanks. He did a better-than-average job in the worse-than-average war with Finland; he did an excellent job as head of the Kiev military district, and, perhaps most important, a bang-up job as a hater of Germany in the months when Russians were not supposed to hate Germany...
...adopted son of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund work, because Finland "is now the vassal of Nazi Germany." ∙∙Of wartime writing, Writer Somerset Maugham, 67, said: "I've reached the conviction that an author may do his country more good just by going on and writing as though there were no war." ∙∙Of writers and Army...
...Prince and his escort moved on. They had passed from Finnish soil to soil the Russians had stolen from Finland; now they moved on to soil the Finns had just stolen from Russia-ancient Karelian soil, not Russian, said the Finns. As they went the Finnish officers explained why Finns keep on fighting Russia...
...young Prince had other reasons for understanding. Now, as always, Sweden was very close to Finland. Sweden had acted as go-between in the exchange of notes in which Britain demanded that Finland stop fighting Russia (TIME, Oct. 6), in which Finland last week refused. Sweden, like Finland, was squeezed between the great belligerents...
Tough old Vaino Tanner, Finland's Minister of Commerce and Industry, who had also been to Germany, had that very afternoon protested that the Finns were not Nazis: "The Finns are Democratic and want the parliamentary system, as they have heretofore. I want especially to point that out to some circles abroad who may believe that Finland is moving in another direction. We don't lose our heads. Finland regards herself as Nordic. . . . We must try for a more definite form of cooperation with other Scandinavian countries...