Word: petsamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again Russia may choose between these two methods. Moscow's proposals in February and March followed the second line of action. These terms-the 1940 frontiers, the harbor of Petsamo lost to Russia, and a heavy indemnity-would have reduced Finland to a position of economic dependency and more or less permanent military impotence. There probably would have been internal difficulties in Finland besides, as few governments in history have survived a lost war and Russia's conditions would have meant to most Finns that Finland had lost the war. Moreover the Germans would probably have made...
...with Germany, intern Nazi troops and ships, calling for Russian help if necessary (as it probably would be); restore the 1940 frontier and agreement with Russia; release all Russian and Allied prisoners and internees. Reparations due Russia, demobilization of the Finnish Army and the future of the port of Petsamo on the Arctic may be discussed in Moscow later. At week's end, the Finns were still thinking it over...
Russia was as uncommunicative about her plans for postwar Europe as she was about military details. Common sense indicated that Russia, for her future security, will demand European concessions-possibly Petsamo in Finland, warm-water ports in the Baltic, a sphere of influence in the Balkans, access to the Black Sea straits. Common sense also indicated that, unless a general and open agreement is reached soon on joint postwar policies, the Allies' present comradeship-in-arms may turn into a barracks brawl. The first chairs were already being thrown by pro-Soviets and anti-Soviets in the Balkans...
...under Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands all the way to Petsamo in Finland, two other air fleets based on Vienna and Rumania, and an independent unit in Italy...
...Safely through the mine-infested area, it was announced in Washington, was the Army transport American Legion, which sailed from Petsamo, Finland with U. S. citizens aboard and in spite of ominous warnings from Germany...