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...hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which, in 1939-40, stood up and slugged it out with what was then known as Red Russia...
...Italy, tough Allied troops pursued the beaten Germans northward, 70 miles above liberated Rome. After weeks of ominous quiet the long Russian front stirred. A major Red Army offensive in the north, to knock Finland out of the war, rolled through heavy defenses in a 15- to 25-mile surge reminiscent of the windup of the "Winter...
...Moscow, bursting rockets told of the reopening of the Russian Front. Over the radio the familiar voice of Announcer Yuri Levitan read Stalin's order on the breach of Finland's Mannerheim Line. The day was D plus five of the invasion of western Europe...
...days earlier batteries of 8-inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
Surprise. General Leonid Govorov's blow last week caught the Finns and their German allies by surprise. In next-door Sweden, observers predicted Finland's collapse within three months, voiced doubt that Nazi General Eduard Dietl would rush his nine divisions from the north to help the hard-pressed Finns...