Word: leningrader
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...calm and feel not the slightest nervousness!" cried Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander, while letting it be known that reservists were being rushed to strengthen Finland's defenses along the Soviet frontier. It was assumed that Dictator Stalin would demand the "lease" of several small Finnish islands near Leningrad and that this would have to be yielded in exchange for trade favors, but in case Moscow demands to lease the Aland Islands, owned by Finland dominating Stockholm, all Scandinavia was expected to join Finland in protest. "Moscow's demands on Finland are followed with the greatest interest in Sweden...
Bluff and Bombers. Meanwhile, Dictator Stalin suddenly brought down Russia's fist upon Estonia. This prosperous little Baltic state flanks the sea approach to Leningrad, where the Red Navy is frozen up tight at least three months of each year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile...
...Berchtesgaden technique" of bluff & bludgeon being successfully used on Estonia last week by Russia. Germans have always hoped to dominate the Baltic. As long as 20 years ago German General Staff officers had perfected a fine set of plans for invading Russia with a thrust through Estonia to seize Leningrad. The Führer may or may not have realized before what his chumming up with the Bolsheviks might cost him in the Baltic sphere, as well as in the Balkans, but he saw every reason to inject trusted Nazi negotiators into the Moscow picture before the Estonian delegation arrived...
...ways: on the one hand Russia has taken efficient measures to exclude the Germans from Estonia and Latvia; on the other hand the Soviet Union has obtained the use of fine, ice-free Estonian and Latvian harbors through which Russian supplies could be routed to Germany after Leningrad freezes up late this month...
Sailing with Sir Reginald on the specially chartered City of Exeter, bound for Leningrad, were 25 other British experts and an equally impressive French mission headed by General Joseph Edouard Doumenc, Member of the Supreme War Council and Commander of the Army Corps at Lille. Britain and France hoped to bring off with a show of force what cautious persuasion, begging, wheedling had not accomplished in months: a three-way military alliance with Russia which would be something besides a suicide pact...