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...Finnish troops were massed before Leningrad. Finland's president, gaunt, grave Risto Ryti, reaffirmed his Government's disavowal of Nazi ideology, pledged continuance of the war against Soviet Russia. Great Britain, weighing Joseph Stalin's demand for a formal declaration of war against Finland, Rumania and Hungary, looked to the U.S. for advice...
Last Aug. 18, 54 days after Finland's war declaration, Cordell Hull had informed Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope of Russia's desire to talk peace on the basis of territorial compensation for Finland. Neither the Minister nor his Government was interested. Since then the U.S. has frequently expressed anxiety over Finland's course. The facts, as usual, favored Cordell Hull, and to him they were clear: either the Finnish Government is no longer a free -agent of its people, or the people themselves prefer alliance with a power that endangers the independence of all nations...
...Finnish Legation in Washington answered in words that were partly quoted from President Ryti: Finland will not be satisfied to discuss peace until her Army has reached the "strategic line* independently selected by her in her own defensive interests of security." Between what she considers her security and the friendship of the U.S., Finland had chosen security. She had left Britain little choice but to declare war as Joseph Stalin requested...
...would not, as readers of Napoleonic history might think, stop the Germans short. The Finnish war and the Norwegian campaign had demonstrated that tanks can operate in snow three feet deep, that guns can fire no matter how cold...
...ground communications. ∙∙ Peter Gerald Lehman, 24-year-old adopted son of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund work, because Finland "is now the vassal of Nazi Germany." ∙∙Of wartime writing, Writer Somerset Maugham, 67, said: "I've reached the conviction that an author may do his country more good just by going on and writing as though...