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...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...
Fine acting, expert photography, and an excellent script depicting a modern Florence Nightingale make "Girl from Leningrad" fine film-fare. With its authentic Mannerheim Line scenes showing the Soviet troops in action against Finland and Germany as a background for a Red Cross nurse romance it packs a terrific wallop...
Gustaf Adolf and his escort came to a rise by the river Svir called Mannerheim Hill. As the young Prince stood on the hill Russian artillery shells whistled over his head-and behind him blond men were killed. Yes, he understood why Finns fought...
This week a Finnish private soldier named Vilho Raetoe became a Knight of the Mannerheim Order-Finland's highest military honor-by decree of Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. There are only three other Knights-two colonels and a major general. Private Raetoe made a fourth by capturing a Russian anti-tank gun singlehanded, sighting along its barrel, from which the sights had been lost, wrecking four Soviet tanks...
...issue on which almost all Americans can agree at once, says Baldwin, is hemisphere defense. He does not mean the passive defense of which the Maginot, Mannerheim and Metaxas Lines are the tragic symbols. Passive defense, he claims, is one of the things that destroyed France, came near to destroying England. The U.S. and its Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without...