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...Russia gets the whole Rybachi Peninsula dominating Petsamo's port of Liinahamari, which Russia returns to Finland though retaining the right of free transit for Red goods and persons across this "Finnish corridor" to Norway and Norway's ice-free port of Kirkenes...
...around the world, most people knew that Finland's ordeal was over. The British-accented German radio propagandist, "Lord Haw-Haw," had been the first to say so, at 10:30 p.m. the night before. He had had word from Moscow that terms were finally struck between Finnish and Russian negotiators. Their final session in the Kremlin was joined by Dictator Joseph Stalin, who warmly commended Finland's Delegate Dr. Juho Paasikivi and said that if Dr. Paasikivi had continued as Finnish leader in the negotiations last autumn, there need never have been a war. To seal...
News correspondents, on vigil in Room No. 4 on the second floor of Helsinki's Hotel Kemp, heard the German broadcast and several others from foreign stations, but still could get no confirmation from Finnish officials. No news came from the Finnish Diet, which wrangled in secret far into the night, debating whether or not to accept at this last hour the Allies' offer of 50,000 troops. Morning came, and though news correspondents were certain now of peace, Finns were not. A carpenter busy boarding up a store window against more bomb splinters said...
Officers at the fighting front knew by 10 a.m. that the armistice lay one hour ahead. A private soldier, when he heard, echoed the Helsinki carpenter: "So at last, they have had enough?" The Finnish Air Force ceased flying, though Russian planes kept the air until 11 o'clock, one of their last bombs hitting the statue in Hanko which commemorates Germany's help in liberating Finland from Red Russia...
Subject to possible changes to be made by a joint treaty commission this week. thus ended the Russo-Finnish War. The Finnish Diet ratified the terms 145-to-3.* Obeying the terms of a protocol appended to the peace treaty, 100,000 Finns still remaining in the ceded areas at once started a sad march out of bigger-than-ever Russia into an even smaller Finland-carrying their babies and chattels, driving their few remaining cows and horses. The narrow roads and war-taxed railroads clogged up. Snow fell, gales raged. Defense Minister Juho Niukkanen resigned from the Cabinet partly...