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...Baltic Fleet would soon be free to operate in the Gulf of Finland, could well land troops on the Finnish coast...
...Finland would soon be virtually isolated from her ally...
...victory also had a heavy political tinge. It foreshadowed the reabsorption of the three Baltic states within Russia, after a 22-year interlude of independence. It presaged a near test of Russia's amended constitution (see p. 34). It strengthened the hand of the peace advocates in Finland. Above all, it put a new strain on Germany's morale-and that was a military gain as well...
Correspondents in Stockholm last week were told-and believed-that German troops were about to evacuate Finland and northern Norway. The prospect confronted Swedes with delicate problems...
...roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...