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...Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when juxtaposed. The shadow of Russia creeping again on Finland (see p. 39) turned from red to black when superimposed on the shadow of Italy's sharp little foot dancing through North Africa toward the Near East (see p. 27). And the nations' fears, from the mighty U. S. down to the areas well-educated people had never thought twice...
...maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyösti Kallio lay dying...
...Safely through the mine-infested area, it was announced in Washington, was the Army transport American Legion, which sailed from Petsamo, Finland with U. S. citizens aboard and in spite of ominous warnings from Germany...
...from his desk in the U. S. Senate one day last week rose round-shouldered, wraithlike Homer Truett Bone. Loudly he wondered why "the stubbornness of one man" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) should be allowed to imperil the lives of 900 American refugees bound for the U. S. from Finland aboard the U. S. Army transport American Legion. The State Department gave no official explanation of why the route of the American Legion was not changed after Germany refused to guarantee her safe conduct through mined British waters north of Scotland...
...aircraft today operate regularly in summer, with more difficulty in winter. Year-round, it is a country which calls for tough soldiers, both on the ground and in the air, but no tougher than Germany sent into northern Norway in the spring of 1940, or than Russia sent into Finland in the deep winter...