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Collapse of the Shutters. The great offensive in White Russia reduced the Finnish campaign, which had started last fortnight, to the status of a side show. Nevertheless Marshal Leonid Govorov went right on with his methodical, heavy-handed clearing of Russia's right flank...
...Hjalmar Johan Procopé entered a side door of the gloomy old State Department, was ushered into the office of the protocol chief, bald, urbane George T. Summerlin. Fifteen minutes later Mr. Procopé hurried out, brusque and ruffled. The Finnish Minister to the U.S. had been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...
...week's end the rigid rules applied to Minister Procopé were relaxed a little when the Department learned that Mme. Procopé will have a child in the next fortnight. And the move did not clarify U.S.-Finnish relations, it turned out; the official announcement said: "This action does not constitute a rupture of diplomatic relations...
...preoccupation by probing his defenses far above the Arctic Circle. Thirty miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
Before the Russians opened their Finnish drive (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), British wags joked that the Second Front was calling for the first front. A London cartoonist portrayed a capitalist in striped trousers and tail coat, scrawling a sign on a factory wall. The sign: "Open a front in the East at once...