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...Finnish General Hjalmar Siilasvuo, with five divisions, began a drive from the south, slowly pushed the Germans back. With their direct route to Germany cut off, the Nazis could retreat into Norway or into neutral Sweden. But there was no question of peaceful surrender to the Finns, as the armistice framers seemed to expect-few Germans would willingly follow the road to a Russian prison camp...
...Last week, at Russia's demand, the Finnish Government began to round up several thousand Estonians who had fled from the Russians to Finland. They would be sent to Russia...
Meanwhile the Russian government was reported to be hunting three Finnish war criminals: ex-Premier Risto Ryti, ex-Premier Edwin Linkomies, ex-Finance Minister Väinö Tanner. The staid New York Times reflected a change in the political climate and habits of a decade by reporting not that the fugitive Finns had gone into hiding, but that they "had gone underground...
Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent...
...Finnish armistice terms looked almost as generous as those granted Rumania (TIME, Sept. 25). But Rumania was a comparatively rich country, Finland a comparatively poor one. Reparations (payable in six years) had dropped from the $600 million the Russians demanded last spring to $300 million. The cut was little more than a bookkeeping bow to common sense: Finland would pay the smaller sum, could scarcely hope to pay the bigger one without national bankruptcy. As it was, the yearly reparations payment, payable in kind, not cash, would take from the Finns about half of their total prewar yearly export...