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...Baron's journey and his growing collection of Nazi gewgaws did much to dampen rumors of an early Finnish-Russian peace which have been flying around United Nations capitals. The hopeful had been hoping that little Finland, a bit fed up with her German alliance, might make peace with Russia, her old enemy, if the United Nations would guarantee that Russia would be held perpetually in check after victory. Germany would not like that, and it was unlikely that the Baron and his host even mentioned it, in their little talks between amenities. It seemed more probable that they...
...visit sent a ripple of alarm through United Nations capitals. What Hitler almost certainly wanted from Mannerheim was joint German-Finnish offensive action soon, probably against the Murmansk railroad, perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...
...still pulled sleighs through the haphazard streets of Murmansk. From that fine, deep-water Arctic harbor all the way to Leningrad, 650 miles south, winter snows still blanketed the land. Moving across the solidly frozen earth of the Karelian Isthmus, the Red Army smashed again & again at the tough Finnish defenders, drove a trio of wedges into the Finnish lines despite desperate tank and infantry counterattacks. East of beleaguered Leningrad Red troops lately transported from Siberia hacked away at Finnish positions on the Aunus Isthmus between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega...
...California ranch-house architecture, has been building houses in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 16 years. Hervey Parke Clark is a San Franciscan who took up architecture after a spell at Yale and with Manhattan's Hood & Fouilhoux. John Ekin Dinwiddie, a pupil of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, has very unconventional ideas. He sometimes builds houses that are not units at all, but chains of completely separated rooms, strung on intervening porticos and passageways...