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...passers-by laughed and shouted. For this was a great victory: an 880-day siege had been lifted, 25,000 Germans (according to Moscow) had been killed in six days, 85 huge siege guns had been captured. The Baltic Fleet was free again to sail into the Gulf of Finland. Red columns were pressing toward Estonia 56 miles away...
Imports. Smash hit at the moment-and an exception to London's craving for escape-is Robert E. Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, with the Lunts in their Broadway roles and the play's setting changed from Finland to Greece. Many Londoners, finding its tragic story too close to their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company...
...Finland the clock stands at 5 minutes to 12. Every Finn knows that the war must end with Germany and Finland the losers. Like characters in a Greek tragedy, foreseeing their own destruction but unwilling or unable to lift a hand to stay their fate, the Finns hold to their stand toward Russia: peace only on conditions satisfactory to Finland...
...least, Finns believe, such conditions should include return to the frontiers which Russia offered Finland before the winter war of 1939 and which the Finns then refused. Yet Finland is in the worst external and internal situation of its history. Germany, in retreat, is a fair-weather friend. Sweden and the U.S. show open signs of disapproval. Soviet Russia, whom Finns have long hated and now fear, is hardening her attitude with every mile of the Red Army's advances...
...Russian-language broadcast by the Finnish radio last week underscored Helsinki's dilemma: "Finland wants peace and is willing, to make peace with Russia. . . . What concerns Finland is that . . . unconditional surrender should contain certain conditions satisfactory to Finland. . . . Finland certainly cannot plunge blindly into peace negotiations...