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...Finnish sisu-meaning a peculiarly Finnish brand of doggedness, capable of facing down death itself-was at work against the Allies. Last week one element of sisu affecting Finland's war position became crystal clear: Finland's instinctive hate and dread of Russia is the principal barrier to a separate peace with Russia. The presence of German troops in Finland and the fear of German reprisal are secondary to the Finns' conviction that Russia is their implacable enemy...
...Government was fed up with Finland's role as a Nazi ally, and with Finland's submission to tightening German control. Last July, the U.S. closed its consulates in Finland. In December, Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld left for Washington, ostensibly to report. Soon afterward, the Finnish Information Service in the U.S. was suspended by U.S. order. Recently Minister Schoenfeld, while retaining his title, has assisted Herbert H. Lehman in the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation...
...side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times a week on the Second Front, observers could not help speculating on the Party's purpose...
Even more significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...
...Reportedly stripped by his Russian captors on the Karelian Isthmus in February 1940, Ramsay was told to escape if he could. He did, reaching the Finnish lines with frozen feet. His toes were amputated...