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Last week the exiled Governments of Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands signed postinvasion agreements with the U.S. and Britain. Russia signed only with Norway, an open hint that the Red Army might want to cross the top of Finland to carry on the war with Germany. It was also a suggestion that Russia, with belligerent Finland and Russophobe Sweden on her doorstep, wanted a long-term friend in Scandinavia. The Norwegians seemed willing...
...their oppressor: that word probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...
Other members of the Harvard Faculty who were elected to the general membership of the Academy include: Maxwell Finland '22, assistant professor of Medicine; Carl J. Friodrich, professor of Government and Director of the School for Overseas Administration; Paul R. Gast, assistant professor of Forestry; Walter Gropius; professor of Architecture...
...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...
...again Russia may choose between these two methods. Moscow's proposals in February and March followed the second line of action. These terms-the 1940 frontiers, the harbor of Petsamo lost to Russia, and a heavy indemnity-would have reduced Finland to a position of economic dependency and more or less permanent military impotence. There probably would have been internal difficulties in Finland besides, as few governments in history have survived a lost war and Russia's conditions would have meant to most Finns that Finland had lost the war. Moreover the Germans would probably have made...