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...agree on even an effective basis of mutual self-preservation. When they tried to get together in 1939 the British balked at Russian control of the Baltic States (which last year helped to save Leningrad) and Russia plumped into the non-aggression pact with Germany. Later Britain helped Finland against Russia. Even after Hitler's attack on Russia last year, some Britons' abhorrence of Communism led them to hope that somehow Germany and Russia would destroy each other, while Russians remained equally suspicious of their capitalist ally...
Renner's Europe consists of nine great states: a commonwealth of Great Britain and Holland, a Fennoscandic Union (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...
...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...
...perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...