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...evidence piled up last week that the Finns are taking their orders from Berlin, the State Department finally ordered all Finnish consulates in the U.S. closed by Aug. 1. The action will not necessarily lead either to a break in diplomatic relations or to a declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
...Alone." Semion Timoshenko came out of the Finnish war with the Order of Lenin, the cherished title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a Marshalship and credit for smashing the Mannerheim Line. Actually he had to share the credit with two others: Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, then & now Stalin's Chief of Staff (TIME, Feb. 16), and Marshal Grigory Kulik, an artillery expert who has lately dropped out of sight...
...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...point was that R.A.F. minelayers* and United Nations submarines had been able to disturb important German shipping routes. In addition to draining raw materials from Sweden and Finland, Germany uses the sprawling, landlocked Baltic as a highway for transporting troops and supplies to the Leningrad area, the Finnish front and northernmost Norway...
When the Russians lost their Hango base in the Finnish Gulf and Leningrad was surrounded, the Red Fleet was assumed to be bottled in Kronstadt. The Baltic was a German lake and Sweden eased up on convoying. But the Red Fleet did not stay bottled. Submarines, perhaps other warships, broke through mines and nets blocking the Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success...