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...consulates in the U.S. closed by Aug. 1. The action will not necessarily lead either to a break in diplomatic relations or to a declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
...point was that R.A.F. minelayers* and United Nations submarines had been able to disturb important German shipping routes. In addition to draining raw materials from Sweden and Finland, Germany uses the sprawling, landlocked Baltic as a highway for transporting troops and supplies to the Leningrad area, the Finnish front and northernmost Norway...
...last 90 years the steel industry has spent millions in futile efforts to make sponge iron. Catch in the process is selection of an ore which can yield high-grade sponge. Plants in Sweden and Finland are now turning it out profitably...
...Finland's Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim dropped in last week on a noted acquaintance. Adolf Hitler, at the Führer's field headquarters somewhere in Shangrila. In Berne and Berlin (but not in Helsinki) the meeting was billed as a return visit, for Hitler had dropped in last month on the Baron's 75th birthday party in Helsinki (TIME, June 15) to give him the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle and have a little talk. Last week's meeting, said Berlin, was "marked by hearty friendship." Hermann...
...Baron's journey and his growing collection of Nazi gewgaws did much to dampen rumors of an early Finnish-Russian peace which have been flying around United Nations capitals. The hopeful had been hoping that little Finland, a bit fed up with her German alliance, might make peace with Russia, her old enemy, if the United Nations would guarantee that Russia would be held perpetually in check after victory. Germany would not like that, and it was unlikely that the Baron and his host even mentioned it, in their little talks between amenities. It seemed more probable that they...