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Twelve days before Pearl Harbor, the radio commentator Boake Carter called Morison a "fool" after Morison had laughed at him for approving Finland's stand in aiding the Nazis against Russia...
...shall continue to do so." Questioned about reports that he had reached an end of procrastinating over recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation, he announced that he had, indeed, drafted a new formula, but could not yet disclose it (see p. 19). He appealed to Finland to "disassociate herself from Germany,"-the day before Russia got Finland's "no" to the Russian armistice terms...
...guns took the measure of Japan's artillery, neatly shaved off a few hilltops, complete with Japanese pillboxes. In 1939, the Red Army again fought the Japanese, on the border of Outer Mongolia, though this was primarily Georgy Zhukov's tank show. In 1940, Voronov came against Finland's famed Mannerheim Line...
What Voronov did in Finland, after Russia had had her first humiliating but educational reverse, set the pattern for today's battles. First, his artillerymen took positions far in the rear, practiced with replicas of the Finnish strongholds. Then they moved their heavy guns close to the Mannerheim Line. Firing over open sights at individual bunkers they methodically uprooted them, and the infantry moved in. For the feat, Stalin made him Colonel General of Artillery...
Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power...