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...Rumors that Finland was about to ask for peace with Russia suddenly recurred in Stockholm. The Swedish press reported that Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, elderly banker and diplomat who took part in the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations of 1940, had been asked to prepare for another trip to Moscow...
After his threatened return to the Nazis, Singer attempted, to escape to England by meeting a British cruiser in occupied Norway. When he missed the warship he was saved miraculously by a small Finnish vessel, which brought him to America...
...Hungarian radio announced: "It would be wrong to expect an atmosphere of distrust in Moscow." The Finnish radio said: "The smaller countries hope that agreement will be reached at the Moscow conference." BBC, sifting Balkan news and comment, reported that Rumania showed a panicky realization that she was on the wrong side, while Bulgaria was pinning her hopes on her refusal to declare war on Russia...
...Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...
...trial balloons fell flat. Moscow said nothing; her terms were still the 1940 frontiers established by the Russo-Finnish War, plus a base at Hango. Berlin said nothing, and the estimated 80,000 German troops in Finland remained at their posts. London and Washington said nothing, meaning that Finland could still expect no intercession with Moscow...