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With scarcely an audible sigh, mesmerized Finland sank into the arms of Nazi Germany. The Germans took over with only a few companies of second-rate occupation troops to back up the fast and foamy talk of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Nazis' proposition was simple: Germany would send six divisions if the Finns would keep up the fight and agree not to sign a separate peace...
Through three daylight summer nights Ribbentrop played on President Risto Ryti's fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating Finance Minister Väinö Tanner, strong man of Finnish politics and long the leader of Finland's fight-to-the-finish school. The battle in the Cabinet was so close that Ryti decided against submitting the proposal to the Finnish Diet. Instead he used his wartime power...
Such Nazi bigwigs as Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Rommel and Rundstedt carrying the burden of war and defeat, also resented the Führer's withdrawal. They stamped down sparks of unrest. Old rumors cropped up about violent disagreement within the ruling clique, and experienced correspondents thought that now the rumors were probably true. But Naziwise Swedes saw no chance of such disagreement leading to breakdown until "the invasion is consolidated and Allied advance guards are well on the way to Germany's frontiers...
...fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were clearly meant to understand that peace talk was going on, even if no Briton had seen Ribbentrop. The result was that they paid little attention to the British denial, felt that their first suspicions were confirmed...