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Last week was the 27th and most critical of World War II. There were signs of peace. The Allies had done nothing to start the three-month struggle between Finland and Russia, but paradoxically the indications that that struggle might end totted up as a disaster for them...
Wednesday. The first electric news leaked out from Stockholm. Somewhere, somehow, at some previous time, Sweden had made possible peace negotiations between Russia and Finland. The Finns were so nearly beaten that almost their only hope lay in an Allied Expeditionary Force...
Meantime, in London the first scare-story appeared. Finland's Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim, 72, was reported gravely ill, watched over by personal physicians. The report was promptly denied...
...Helsinki, the Finnish Government tentatively issued the following announcement: "The Soviet Government is believed to have planned the presentation of demands to Finland more far-reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage...
Meantime, the German Minister to Finland, Dr. Wipert von Blücher had conferred with representatives of General Mannerheim and with Finnish Government officials. Germany was apparently swinging into action...