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...news spread through the city. Mozhaisk had been recaptured. The last German stronghold near the capital was again in Russian hands. Smoking Russian cold and smoking Russian artillery (under heavy-jawed Major General Leonid Alek-sandrovich Govorov, hero of World War I and the Finnish War) had at last shattered the carefully prepared German positions in the city...
Leslic C. Tihany, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as research fellow in Ugro-Finnish; A.M. Harvard...
Axel Wenner-Gren's most ambiguous public gesture was in February 1940, when at the cabled request of Hermann Göring he rushed to Berlin, attempted to mediate a Russo-Finnish peace. But his associates indignantly declare: ". . . by no stretch of the imagination [is he] an Axis sympathizer." Last March he said: "... I shall always prefer peace to war so long as there is reasonable basis for hoping for peace, but never at a sacrifice of the principles of freedom and progressive democracy...
...week's end a hue & cry had been set up for Paasikivi. A Stockholm report said old apple-chinned Juho had gone to Moscow to negotiate a peace directly with Moscow. Juho was sent with Väinö Tanner to Moscow in 1939 before the first Finnish-Soviet war. On that occasion the belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used...
Sibelius: Tapiola (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Koussevitzky conduct ing; Victor; 4 sides). The Finnish bard's bleak saga of his native forests, sturdily recounted by the Bostonians...