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...Downs partly because of Germany's new proximity in The Netherlands, but chiefly because, when the war reached the Low Countries, the Allies' northern blockade of Germany became practically 100%. The skeleton crew at Kirkwall will look over only the few ships bound for Sweden, Finland, Russia and her Baltic satellites...
...sixth was still intact and in action around Narvik. Some 12,500 strong, based on Kirkenes (550 miles by sea northeast of Narvik), it was the best equipped, having been made ready for action during Finland's trouble last winter. Last fortnight Nazi air scouts flew even up to Kirkenes and dropped a few preliminary bombs, preparing to obey their Fiihrer's order to make his conquest of Norway complete...
...lost in the West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland, seemed about to make the best of a none too good bargain...
Joseph Stalin, as well as a lot of other people, learned much from the way the Red Army performed in Finland. Last week the Dictator, slow, methodical and unforgetting, began to apply his knowledge. Paramount lesson of the Finnish campaign was that the Communist system of attaching to each Red Army officer a political commissar with overriding authority is unpractical. It implies that the officer is not fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced...
When the Red Army began to misfire in Finland, the Dictator summoned Semion Timoshenko to Leningrad, placed him in command of the operations which ultimately broke the Mannerheim Line...