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Last week, as the Italians attacked across the mountains of Epirus (aiming in one place for loannina hard by Dodona), there was very similar double talk in the air. It came from "neutral sources." Just as the world heard (via Stockholm) that Finland was victorious to the day of its defeat, heard (via Berne) that France was doing not too badly against the Nazis, heard (from Stockholm again) that the British were throwing the Nazis out of Norway, these "neutral sources" (Belgrade was now the worst offender) gave out good cheer for Greeks. The "news" they told must have come...
Having missed his chance to fight for Finland because the war ended before he could get there, Jesse C. Carson, 27, grandson of famed Frontiersman Kit, tossed up his Colorado cowpuncher's job, volunteered for Army service...
From neutral nations reports were even stronger. Vichy ruefully declared that several French ports were completely demolished. Letters from Finland reported that as early as August "Essen and Duisburg were suffering badly from the frequency of air-raid alarms," described the razing of whole blocks in Hamburg...
...with Finland, the ex-Baron blamed "those who wanted to use the Finns as cannon-fodder to weaken the Soviet Union...
Critic Edmund Wilson (Axel's Castle) became interested in the historical evolution of socialism some years ago, has had the present book in mind for six years. To the Finland Station is a study of the slow development of socialist ideas. His purpose is to explore the origins of socialist thought, to trace its tortuous course up to the time it became a political power. He describes this development in terms of the men who transformed it, interlacing a biography of ideas with the biography of the men who held them...