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...response to hastily distributed invitations from the Soviet Academy, upwards of 150 men of science gathered in Moscow last week. They came from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Finland, Hungary. India, Iran, the Mongolian Republic, Rumania, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia. Their names ranged from illustrious to illustriously obscure...
...perhaps I should round out this report with still another piece of distribution news: Now that Finland has declared war on Germany more than 4,000 English-reading Finns are buying TIME'S Stockholm-printed edition each week for a true report on what is going on all over the world...
...Hoover not only fears, but does not desire a long peace. He pours out tears because Poland, Finland and the Soviet Baltic Republics were snatched from the chains of German imperialism. He, of course, does not think about war for 'securing their freedom...
Shaposhnikov had helped steady the amateur soldiers of the civil war. As chief of the Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, he had created a Red officers corps. He planned the 1939 move into Poland and the winter war with Finland. He was Chief of Staff at the beginning of the present war, played a major role in setting Soviet strategy, of trading space for time, of counterattacking when the Germans were most extended. Then illness forced him to the sidelines...
Percy Knauth is as American as baseball-he was born within sight of the towers of Manhattan-but this will be something like a homecoming for him. He knows almost every country in Europe firsthand (Finland, the Low Countries and Russia are just about the only places he has never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain...