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Hitler-mustached Zhdanov admires German efficiency, German methods. As long ago as 1936 he made an impassioned speech before the All-Union Congress of the Soviets urging annexation of the Baltic States and Finland. Last summer it was Zhdanov who paved the way for agreement with Germany. As Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs, he has an influence in foreign affairs greater than that of Molotov...
While fighting reached a new pitch of intensity on all the established fronts of land, sea and air between the Allies and Germany, while Finland continued to give ground slowly and bloodily before the Russian avalanche, events at the top and bottom of Europe tended to embrace and at the same time expand the conflict...
...waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia...
Into its fourth week went the battle of Viipuri and Finland's second city was now in the battle line. Finnish artillery, wheeled back from the main positions of the Mannerheim Line, spat at the Russians over the heads of Viipuri's defenders. Behind Karelia's beleaguered capital, along the 30-mile stretch of lakes and canals between Lake Saimaa and the Gulf of Finland, other workers were building new defenses. Few people doubted that if Viipuri fell Finland would still fight...
...snowstorm swept over Finland as the week began. It grounded Russian aviation, slowed Russian mechanized attack, made the Russian infantry advance half blind. Behind the front the Russians were busy keeping their supply lines open, and this slowed down their advance. But still the Red Army came...