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...those terms last week President Roosevelt defined a good peace. He spoke in a week in which, in Finland, peace had been made that U. S. opinion condemned as bad. It was a week when a hearty and smiling Mussolini conferred with a pale Adolf Hitler in a village in the foothills of the Alps, when from Berlin came stories that Russia would join the Axis, and when the shape of some vast peace move-a super-Munich that would be for all Europe what Munich was for Czecho-Slovakia-loomed in the background of dispatches...
...last week's peace brought in its wake gloom, mutual accusations, bitterness, savage resentment, failure, foreboding, recrimination, renewed hostility, new fears and new preparations, new hatreds and new defiances. It was a week of democratic frustration in which Finland blamed Sweden for not permitting Allied aid , Sweden accused Britain and France of wanting to make Scandinavia a battleground, the French blamed the British for not pressing aid to Finland, the British blamed the Swedes, the small nations of Europe accused the Allies of too nice an observance of neutral rights, Dorothy Thompson blamed the U. S. Senate, the Senators...
...Austria. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and now in Finland, Adolf Hitler had managed with devilish cunning to give his western opponents no place to lay a hand on him. Their chosen strategy for the past six months had perforce been tenacity-hang on, if unable to smoke him out, starve him out. Had the time now come for audacity? Such was the questioning mood, gloomy yet determined, uneasy though defiant, that was rapidly developing in the Allied countries early this week. And just at that point Adolf Hitler, that gifted diplomatic poker player with a hand full of jokers, raised...
...105th day of vast Red Russia's hammering attack on little snowbound Finland opened as usual on all fronts last week. Soon after dawn, Red bombers appeared over interior cities, methodically dropping demolition where it would most damage communications and transport, incendiary charges where they would burn homes and civilian morale. Northeast of Lake Ladoga,* Red tanks and infantry tried to make headway where three of their divisions had been whittled to bits. As usual, they were driven back. At Taipale, Vuosalmi and along the Vuoksi in the centre of the Karelian Isthmus, tired Finnish defenders stood firm under...
...heavy Russian forces can strike, one dawn at one point, the next 50 miles to the west, now here, now there, unexpectedly. Along such a front the Finns must scatter thinly, and be continually vigilant. The new sector: the northwest shore of Viipuri Bay and along the Gulf of Finland, on a front of 60 miles -halfway to Helsinki. Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps and some stones, but it cut down a lot of grass...