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...crump of Russian bombs in Helsinki splintered the frozen stillness of the Finnish winter. Over Finland's radio came the numbing news that Cordell Hull had warned the Finns to quit the war at once. It was Hull's third try, but the first to reach the ears of most Finns. In the white forests and around the windswept shores of Finland's myriad icebound lakes, Finns blinked and wondered...
...Baltic Fleet would soon be free to operate in the Gulf of Finland, could well land troops on the Finnish coast...
...Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held Manchuria. Between Russia proper and China lies the Mongolian People...
...units, Stockholm said, had launched "a very heavy attack" on the northern Finnish front, in the frozen wastelands above the Arctic Circle...
...Russian-language broadcast by the Finnish radio last week underscored Helsinki's dilemma: "Finland wants peace and is willing, to make peace with Russia. . . . What concerns Finland is that . . . unconditional surrender should contain certain conditions satisfactory to Finland. . . . Finland certainly cannot plunge blindly into peace negotiations...