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Deprecating any public demonstration in favor of a second front although personally in favor of one, Kohn stated that it was most likely to come, not in France, but in some theatre of the war not publicized at present, such as French North Africa or Finland and Norway...
...sacrifice helped prevent the German from shattering Russia's Murmansk supply route and enabled Russia to keep Kronstadt, its last base in the Baltic. From Kronstadt Russian submarines and other survivors of the Red Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor...
Washington's last student conference -the leftist American Youth Congress, sponsored, like many another, by Eleanor Roosevelt - met two years ago on the White House lawn to boo a speech by the President. It applauded John L. Lewis and the Russian invasion of Finland...
...single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles for Brit ain, aid to Finland, homes for children refugees - take a lot of time because the reward of generosity is favorable publicity. Thus life for Julian and Amanda is an intense jitter of methodical planning to do things which give them no real pleasure. Even their off-hours have to be rationed to the last minute: "SLEEP...
...miniature ("I spent half an hour being nice to that Corrigan . . . I thought he was Pictures, and all the time he was just Little Theater"). Each would, if she could, ride "the world's debacle as if it was her own yacht," while saving the tears "for Finland and the photographers." They quickly gang up on their erstwhile idol, Amanda, when her infidelity brings her husband's powerful publishing machine into action against...