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Above Leningrad the Luftwaffe stepped up its attacks on Murmansk. Object: to close that port of entry for war goods from Britain and the U.S. This effort, too, was an obvious preparation for the summer offensive. The fact that it occurred at the northern terminus of the vast front, 2,000 miles from Sevastopol, did not turn wise eyes from the south. For the immutable, basic fact of Hitler's war remained. He must have oil, and the two points where he showed his greatest strength last weekevastopol and Kharkov—are on the road...
...West brought supplies to an embattled Red Army. The safe arrival of the convoy meant more, however, than a complete turn in the wheel of history. It meant a new supply route to the Red Army over a rail line 200 miles farther east, hence safer, than the Murmansk route, which has to carry all Russia's northern traffic until thaws free Archangel in late spring...
...visit sent a ripple of alarm through United Nations capitals. What Hitler almost certainly wanted from Mannerheim was joint German-Finnish offensive action soon, probably against the Murmansk railroad, perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...