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...Russia gets the whole Rybachi Peninsula dominating Petsamo's port of Liinahamari, which Russia returns to Finland though retaining the right of free transit for Red goods and persons across this "Finnish corridor" to Norway and Norway's ice-free port of Kirkenes...
Meantime, in Helsinki, in Moscow, in Germany and Sweden and all around the world, most people knew that Finland's ordeal was over. The British-accented German radio propagandist, "Lord Haw-Haw," had been the first to say so, at 10:30 p.m. the night before. He had had word from Moscow that terms were finally struck between Finnish and Russian negotiators. Their final session in the Kremlin was joined by Dictator Joseph Stalin, who warmly commended Finland's Delegate Dr. Juho Paasikivi and said that if Dr. Paasikivi had continued as Finnish leader in the negotiations last...
...when he heard, echoed the Helsinki carpenter: "So at last, they have had enough?" The Finnish Air Force ceased flying, though Russian planes kept the air until 11 o'clock, one of their last bombs hitting the statue in Hanko which commemorates Germany's help in liberating Finland from Red Russia...
...mile rail connection which Finland must build this year, from the railhead at Kuolajärvi eastward to a link which Russia will build westward from Kandalakska. Russia will have free transit over this line to its juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line...
...Finland's naval forces in the North (as under the existing treaty of 1920) shall consist of not more than 15 armed ships of not more than 400 tons, though vessels of less than 100 tons are unrestricted. Finland's Arctic naval bases shall be proportionately small and on this coast Finland shall maintain no submarines, no armed aircraft...