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...December 3 the Times wrote, FINNS REPORT SOVIET DRIVE HALTED, while the Worker replied with, SOVIET CEDES KARELIA, Six days later when Worker claimed, RED ARMY SWEEPS THROUGH SHATTERED MANNERHEIM LINE, the Times observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign...
...Karelian Isthmus just north of Leningrad, a Russian artillery barrage and tank attack preceded the infantry advance. Unlike the Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on their fortified Mannerheim Line. At Terijoki, seat of the new Red puppet Finnish "Government" (see p. 26), they left land mines which they claimed blew up thousands of Russians...
Retired from active service, he still headed the national defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...near Leningrad not only creates a menace to Leningrad, but is, in fact, a hostile act against the U.S.S.R. . .. Therefore, the Soviet Government.. . proposes that the Government of Finland withdraw its troops without delay 20 to 25 kilometers (twelve to 15 miles) farther from the border of the Karelian Isthmus, thus preventing the possibility of a repeated provocation. Accept, Mr. Minister, the assurance of my perfect respect...
...meant to have a Finnish war-unless he was playing a gigantic game of bluff to the very end. Whether bluffing or not, the Finns took no chances. They closed most of the channels leading into the port of Helsinki preparatory to mining, and the little Army on the Karelian Isthmus braced itself against an increasingly probable attack...