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...Helsinki's handsome, granite Diet hall, 200 stubby Finnish forefingers pushed the electric voting buttons. By 160-to-40 the men & women who are supposed to govern Finland approved the Government's decision to reject Russia's armistice terms...
What Voronov did in Finland, after Russia had had her first humiliating but educational reverse, set the pattern for today's battles. First, his artillerymen took positions far in the rear, practiced with replicas of the Finnish strongholds. Then they moved their heavy guns close to the Mannerheim Line. Firing over open sights at individual bunkers they methodically uprooted them, and the infantry moved in. For the feat, Stalin made him Colonel General of Artillery...
...Finland must: break relations with Germany, intern Nazi troops and ships, calling for Russian help if necessary (as it probably would be); restore the 1940 frontier and agreement with Russia; release all Russian and Allied prisoners and internees. Reparations due Russia, demobilization of the Finnish Army and the future of the port of Petsamo on the Arctic may be discussed in Moscow later. At week's end, the Finns were still thinking it over...
...Italy's surrender, four days before it happened; the basic Allied conditions for peace in the Far East, eight months before the Cairo conference; the European Advisory Commission's working model of terms for Germany; Russia's Polish border manifestos, one to three days ahead; the Finnish peace terms, now coming true...
Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power...