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...risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway spilling over quickly to his assistance. Gallup polls have shown repeatedly that the majority of Swedes believe they can avoid war. But they have completely organized against air raids and incendiary bombs. Their Lotta Corps, copied from Finland's modern women's auxiliary military corps, is ready...
...Allies waited vainly for Finland to show some signs of intent or willingness to withdraw from Hitler's fold...
...strategic fronts, the President's foreign policy, ace-in-the-hole of the Fourth Term movement, had bogged down. The tentative, unofficial overtures to Finland to break with the Axis were stalled. The appeasement of Martinique's Admiral Georges Robert had brought no results...
Finnish sisu-meaning a peculiarly Finnish brand of doggedness, capable of facing down death itself-was at work against the Allies. Last week one element of sisu affecting Finland's war position became crystal clear: Finland's instinctive hate and dread of Russia is the principal barrier to a separate peace with Russia. The presence of German troops in Finland and the fear of German reprisal are secondary to the Finns' conviction that Russia is their implacable enemy...
Most Finns now believe that Germany will lose the war. But they insist that Finland must resist to the last, hoping that Russia will be so weak at the end that Finland can hold the territories which the Russians seized in 1940. The Finns refuse to believe that these territories-as vital to Russian security as they are dear to the Finns-would ever be theirs by a voluntary settlement...