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Round Two. Finland looked like an easy second round. The Kremlin was confident, says Author Scott, that: 1) Finland would capitulate; 2) if there was a war the Finnish workers and soldiers would revolt; 3) revolt or no, the Red Army would quickly...
...Finnish Kalevala. When tourists came to the land of 1,000 lakes, the co-op restaurants in Helsinki served stuffed cabbage, onions and great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
...Many times, when people found I was American, they asked how I liked being bombed from Finnish bases sometimes by Finnish planes, while the American Government was friendly with Mannerheim. I did not know how to answer...
...Russians claimed that a Finnish motorized battalion was helping the Germans at Stalingrad and that "old men and cripples" were being conscripted to help the Germans storm Leningrad. In Washington Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope denied the charges, added that Finland "wants to cease fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted" and her security guaranteed...
...diplomatic double talk that has followed Finland's alliance with Germany, Minister Procope's statement was most suspiciously confusing. The Finnish Information Bureau branded as "false and foundationless" any intimation that Finland was ready for a separate peace. The British, who declared war on Finland in December, said Procope's statement was an evident attempt to keep U.S. public opinion at least lukewarmly sympathetic. There was another report that Russia had asked the U.S. (via Wendell Willkie) to declare war on the Finns...