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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thursday. Finnish Minister to the Court of St. James's Georg Achates Gripenberg was summoned to the Foreign Office and asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War and Peace | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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