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North. Although they lost Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns last week and were driven out of Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed. In modern war the taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...
...uttered, the enemy's hobnailed foot was on the city's threshold. The Germans had passed Kingissep, only 70 miles to the southwest, and Novgorod, no miles southeast. The city's railroad lines to Moscow were threatened. From the north Finns and Germans pressed down the Karelian Isthmus to within 50 miles of the city...
...cheese with air, because Russia is naturally defended from Rumania by the Prut and Dniester Rivers, Germany's two stooges on the flanks did little. Finland toppled reluctantly into the war as German drives developed on Murmansk in the far north and on Lenin grad across the scarred Karelian Isthmus...
...principles rather than individuals. One was V. G. Dekanozov, onetime Deputy Foreign Commissar, who went to Berlin with Commissar Molotov three months ago, stayed on as ambassador. Another was Otto Kuusinen, head of the abortive Finnish People's Government during the Russo-Finnish war, elected president of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic after his 1939 coup flopped...
...second incident occurred a little later when four Harvard students spent a day and a night in an igloo in Leverett House courtyard in an effort to "stage a sit-down strike until Russia withdraws from the Karelian Isthmus or the snow melts...