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June 6, Rome taken, the Allies land in Normandy-and five days later the Russians drive on Finland...
Once more tough-minded Russian diplomacy had paid off. First Rumania, then Bulgaria had capitulated. Finland, whose peace delegates were in Moscow, was next in line...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
North of Rumania, the long Russo-German line hardly budged. The Germans boasted that they had "stabilized" the line between the Carpathians and the Gulf of Finland, and they were in fact holding firm in front of Warsaw and East Prussia. They were clearly throwing into this theater any reinforcements they could scrape up from anywhere. Nothing more had been heard of the gap which, three weeks ago, the Germans claimed they had blasted through the Russian corridor on the Gulf of Riga (TIME, Aug. 28). If the Germans were retiring troops from Estonia and Latvia through this gap, they...
This week Moscow and Helsinki agreed to an armistice. On the Finnish front firing ceased. The Russians had insisted on the withdrawal, disarming and internment of all German troops in Finland by Sept. 15. If the Finns could not do the job alone, the Red Army would help...