Word: finnishness
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Knocked in the head were excited reports from Stockholm and Berlin that Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Commander in Chief of the Finnish Army, would stand for election. With President Ryti still in office, sternly anti-Communist Mannerheim' was left free to handle Finland's darkening military prospects. Many reports had Finland feeling for peace. But Finland's primary aim probably is not peace in itself, but security when peace does come. Cagey, conservative President Ryti is the logical choice to negotiate for Finnish security...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that U.S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld would "probably" return to Helsinki (he came home recently to report, presumably on shenanigans like the reported toast of Finnish Government leaders to the successful Jap attack on Pearl Harbor). But the indications that the U.S. intended to continue its formal relations with the Finns did not mean that the Allies would or could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would...
Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...foreigners who have seen him remember him best for his "lion's face," his broad and rocky mouth. Like all successful Red Army commanders, he is a professing Communist and (unlike some) he is also a devout one. Said he after the Finnish War: "We would not be Bolsheviks if we allowed the glamor of victory to blind us to the shortcomings that have been revealed in the training of our men. These shortcomings were the result of conventionalism and routine...
...Finnish fight dragged on, Stalin decided to stop short of total victory. His "recognition" of a "Finnish People's Government" had made him, says Author Scott, "an object of ridicule for [Soviet] streetcar conductors." But most important of all, the invasion of Finland had revealed "considerable deadwood" in the mighty Red Army. In short, Round Two had been "a grotesque blunder" diplomatically; an invaluable proving ground militarily...