Word: finnishness
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...Nazis were building submarines-wrote recently in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: "A successful Allied invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys . . . and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank"-to say nothing, eventually, of the German northern flank...
Typical of the Finnish people's melancholy attitude toward their war with Russia was the comment last week of a Finnish soldier in Stockholm: "The Russians have killed our men, the Swedes have taken our children [for shelter during the war] and the Germans have taken our women and our country." President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest...
Perhaps the Germans were worried about Finland's recent overture to the Allies and wished to woo Helsinki with honors. Last week a New York Times correspondent cabled from Stockholm that Väino Alfred Tanner, potent leader of Finland's Socialist Democratic Party, and many another Finnish leader were now determined to sue for a separate peace with Russia...
...Finland probably will get no help from Britain, with whom the Finns are at war, nor from Washington. Finland must try to deal with Moscow, hoping that reasonable terms can be arranged. According to some reports last week, the Finnish Cabinet of re-elected President Risto Ryti was due for a shakeup, perhaps installing Juho Paasikivi, who negotiated the brief peace with Russia...
...Russian broadcast denounced President Ryti's re-election as "illegal" and an attempt to bring the Finnish people "to Utter ruin in the interest of Hitler." There was no solace for the Finns in such a stiff Russian attitude but experience has shown that Russian realism might be counted on to realize the military and propaganda values of a Finnish defection from the war. At the same time the Finns could not take solace from the fact that Germany has 100,000 troops in Finland...