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...City, but in a baseball park outside the city limits. The burden of his remarks: if the U.S. tended to its knitting it could be safe from invasion; Germany was invincible; England was not to be trusted. ("England may turn against us as she has turned against France and Finland.") Sharing the sandlot rally with Isolationist Lindbergh was Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who shouted: "I will not be silenced...
...week's end, despite denials from Helsinki and Berlin, Uncle Joe Stalin appeared to be trying to maneuver Finland out of the war. He withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus. Having recaptured Viipuri, which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians' withdrawal, will now have virtually all their pre-1940 territory back again. Stalin evidently hoped that the Finns, anxious to retain the friendship of the U.S. and embarrassed by their alliance with Hitler, might now pile arms and pull out of the campaign...
Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
This week a Finnish private soldier named Vilho Raetoe became a Knight of the Mannerheim Order-Finland's highest military honor-by decree of Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. There are only three other Knights-two colonels and a major general. Private Raetoe made a fourth by capturing a Russian anti-tank gun singlehanded, sighting along its barrel, from which the sights had been lost, wrecking four Soviet tanks...
Nowhere in the speech appeared the clause that all Germany's allies must subscribe to -"If Hitler is willing." With increasing rumors that the Nazis had virtually taken over the Finnish Government, observers wondered whether Finland's "war aims" were not mere hopes. And when, at the week's beginning, Finland broke off relations with Great Britain, it seemed most probable that the Finns would get, if they and Germany won, not what they wanted, but what Hitler thought they ought to have...