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...from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power. The two men in 1931 emerged...
Vigorous, fastidious Faymonville, graduate of West Point, had watched Russia since 1915. He learned the language, served with the U.S. forces in Siberia in 1918, and for five years served at the U.S. Embassy as military attach...
...demand (by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge) that the U.S. acquire immediate air bases in Siberia ignored the fact that bases are useless until they are equipped. And before the bases could be equipped, said the President, the Japs would be marching into Siberia. Are you and I, he asked, prepared to stand up and say, as a matter of grand military strategy, that Russia should go to war with Japan? What if the Russians say they are doing something more important...
...Russia is not at war with Japan. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. suggested last week that 1,000,000 American soldiers' lives would be saved if Russia let the U.S. into Siberia now. Militarily, the Senator may have been wrong, but his point cast a great shadow before it: will Russia be with or against the U.S. in the postwar Pacific? More particularly, will Russia want to come in against Japan and then seek to dominate northern Asia in opposition to the U.S. and China? This probably was not an immediate question, but half the world could...
Correspondent X faced this problem squarely. He loved a Russian girl. Russian bureaucracy ordered her to Siberia to keep her away from Correspondent X. The order was rescinded, but she was removed from Moscow. The correspondent returned to the U.S. After brooding a bit, he took his problem to Wendell Willkie, with whom the Russians had not been standoffish...