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Their appointments sounded like an overture to Germany with one hand, a threatening minor for the rest of Finland with the other. Cagey Comrade Stalin was still beating out Red diplomacy 16 to the bar. Appointed as an alternate member of the Committee was Litvinoff's old friend, Anglophile Ivan Maisky, Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Headed by Herbert Hoover, who filled a similar position in Belgian relief during the last war, the organization plans to negotiate with England and Germany for permission to send through shipments of food to Belgium, Holland, Norway, Finland, and Poland...
...Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands all the way to Petsamo in Finland, two other air fleets based on Vienna and Rumania, and an independent unit in Italy...
...simply designed church for a simple people," says Finland's great expatriate, Eliel Saarinen-but it will cover an entire city block and cost some $600,000 (its equivalent in Gothic would cost an estimated 30% more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...
...Russia and thus confirm rather than confine the war's second front. Such an alienation would almost certainly bring Turkey into the fight. But it was equally clear that Russia did not dare fight Germany. It was reported: 1) that Adolf Hitler. had offered Joseph Stalin all of Finland and more of Rumania in exchange for a free hand against Greece and Turkey; 2) that he had offered Boris more of the Dobruja in return for permitting German troops the use of Bulgaria as a corridor to the eastern Mediterranean...