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Apparently under pressure from Berlin, Rome retracted. But Allied speculation was increased by: 1) the visit of New York's Archbishop Francis Spellman to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22); 2) reports from Swedish sources that Finland hoped to make a deal (see below). Semi-official consensus from London and Washington: Keep eyes & ears open, but do not expect peace before victory...
Adolf Hitler was absent. In his stead, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop last week presented the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Dr. T. M. Kivimäki, Finland's Minister to Berlin...
Knocked in the head were excited reports from Stockholm and Berlin that Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Commander in Chief of the Finnish Army, would stand for election. With President Ryti still in office, sternly anti-Communist Mannerheim' was left free to handle Finland's darkening military prospects. Many reports had Finland feeling for peace. But Finland's primary aim probably is not peace in itself, but security when peace does come. Cagey, conservative President Ryti is the logical choice to negotiate for Finnish security...
...wreckage, Finland is trying to save the tenuous thread of relations with its old and powerful friend, the U.S. The Finns hope that the end of their long road of misery will at least find Nazi troops gone and no Russian troops replacing them...
Secretary Cordell Hull gave the State Department view of Ryti's reelection. The U.S. was less interested in individuals than in Finland's foreign policy...