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...Finland, apparently on the ragged edge of dropping out of the war, the U.S. applied a merciless diplomatic pincer. (The Russian planes, blasting Kotka and Helsinki, were the other pincer-prong.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the Finns a final warning to get out of the war (see p. 34). This was patient Cordell Hull's umpteenth move toward this effect...
...crump of Russian bombs in Helsinki splintered the frozen stillness of the Finnish winter. Over Finland's radio came the numbing news that Cordell Hull had warned the Finns to quit the war at once. It was Hull's third try, but the first to reach the ears of most Finns. In the white forests and around the windswept shores of Finland's myriad icebound lakes, Finns blinked and wondered...
What of the old story that a prolonged war would become a victorious war? What of the assurances that all the world understood how Finland was fighting a private war, only accidentally connected with Hitler's war? What of the newspaper Karjolä, which speaks for the friend; of Baron Mannerheim and only last fortnight had said again: "The collapse of the Soviet Union . . . cannot be put off any longer than March 1944 . . . then the world will be put in order for Finland." Had the Government of Russia-haters and the dreamers of a Greater Finland running...
...Finland was another matter. If the Germans go home through Sweden, the laws of neutrality demand that the Swedes intern them. The Swedes would also have to feed them. There are an estimated 100,000 Germans in Finland (and northern Norway), and Sweden has no food to spare...
...independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held...