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...like a grown-up Boy Scout on a jamboree, stood before a scarred building in Sortavala and laughed delightedly. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 35, who will one day be Sweden's King if his longevous royal grandfather (83) and father (60) die in time, was on a tour of Finland's Russian Front. His Finnish guides had just shown him a church which the preposterous Russians had converted into a combination stable and restaurant. On the wall was a poster saying: OBSERVE CLEANLINESS...
...their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed to be digging in almost defensively-with half-buried tanks as pillboxes...
...Social Democrats were displeased and puzzled when Tanner talked about "our German friends." They attempted to dismiss his remark by saying he must have had a couple of acquavitas. Though camouflaged with the job of Commerce Minister, Väinö Tanner, as leader of Finland's largest party, is the strong man of Finland. He hates Bolshevism, but is afraid to accept Soviet Karelia lest Russia win the war and swallow Finland. He dislikes the Nazis, but is afraid to run out of the war lest they swallow Finland...
Between two fires, Tanner last week appeared to have thrown his whole short bulk in with the Nazis. This was an evil portent for the Social Democratic Party−and for democratic Finland. How matters were going was made clearer at week's end, when President Risto Ryti proposed that elections, due next year, be postponed until 1944 because of the "emergency...
...1870s for British art-crafter William Morris, in a mistaken attempt to defy the Machine Age. The historical survey moved onward with examples of tubular steel sitting machines by German Bauhausler Marcel Breuer and French Architect Le Corbusier, to the light, cardboardy modern plywood seats and tables by Finland's Alvar Aalto...