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...only on the enemies with whom they were already at war. Russia, Litvinoff pointed out, did not want to pledge war against Japan, with which the U.S. is at war-and, he added astutely, presumably the U.S. did not want to pledge itself to fight Finland, with which Russia is at war. It was after 8 o'clock when the U.S., Britain, Russia and China signed the pact...
...people of Finland are not afraid of realities, but we cannot much longer continue to bear the burden of a costly war, our second in less than three years. Now that we have attained our strategic goal, why continue the increasingly unpopular and costly...
Against the U.S.S.R.: Finland, Germany, Italy...
...Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven little Axis satellites (Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Rumania and Nanking) added their signatures to the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936, which was just a preliminary to the great European pact that Hitler was readying for Marshal Pétain's signature...
...political limelight and left to his scholarly studies, the classrooms where he taught young Nazis how to garble history and philosophy, and the editorship of the Völkischer Beobachter. But he soon resumed more practical work -the secret coordination of anti-Communist groups along the Russian border from Finland to the Ukraine. During the German-Soviet Pact it was frequently stated that Doktor Alfred Rosenberg was under a cloud. But probably his Führer frequently pointed out to him the silver lining...