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...When a Finnish professor discovered a minor new comet, immemorial portent of war, famine and pestilence, the Berlin radio gave hurried reassurance: "These comets have their rational explanation. There is no need to have cold shivers running over your spine...
...Already the Finns' hard-earned high living standard has largely disappeared. But still they are determined to fight on with a grimness and single-mindedness which left me, after a fortnight in Finland, with increased respect for Finnish fortitude and brass, awe at Finnish political obtuseness, but increasing pessimism regarding Finland's future...
...among Finnish politicos and businessmen, Scott found a single-minded determination to fight to the last Finn. "Their attitude towards the Russians is summed up in an old Finnish 'magic song': Just this much they will get from me: what an ax gets from a stone, a stump from slippery ice, or death from an empty room...
Scott discovered the same determination among Finnish peasants-but with a difference. The top men knew how little chance Finland has to win, but did not tell the country; the peasants, all unknowing, confidently believed not only that Finland was winning but that she would continue to win. The Germans? Finland would come out all right, anyway. Only among Finnish workers did Scott find a strong desire for peace, a strong disagreement with government policy. But they could not speak...
Save or Destroy? Last week's hullabaloo from Moscow obscured the fact that Soviet Russia had lost a studied effort to settle the Finnish campaign without having to beat the Finns. Cabled Scott...