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...major Russian drive. It would depend on the British. Apparently the Germans fear such a move. There have been rumors that Hitler would invade Sweden soon-as a counter-counter pincer on the expected counter-pincer on his pincer. Last week, with no ostensible reason for doing so, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times went out of his way to suggest the possibility by denying it: "Swedish and neutral observers here believe that the Germans are sufficiently occupied in Russia not to want to tackle the Swedish Army...
Always a dashing figure, Patton drilled indefatigably in swimming, riding, fencing, attended the Olympics at Stockholm in 1912 at his own expense, won every event in the modern pentathlon except cross-country riding. Never a shy man, Patton reputedly got his job as aide to Pershing in Mexico by simply barging in and roaring: "General, here's your new aide." In France, Patton attended the French Tank School, organized and directed the American Tank Center at Langres...
...From Stockholm last week New York Times Correspondent George Axelsson, just out of Germany, gave the best and newest slant on much-discussed conditions inside Germany...
There was something in the air at Stockholm also. The arrival in Stockholm of Finnish Premier Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Trade Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner, Supply Minister Henrik Ramsay and onetime Premier Juho Kusti Paasikivi, started rumors that Finland was asking Russia for peace. Finns claimed these important ministers were in Stockholm to discuss food only, but this subject is closely related to peace in Finnish minds...
...week's end a hue & cry had been set up for Paasikivi. A Stockholm report said old apple-chinned Juho had gone to Moscow to negotiate a peace directly with Moscow. Juho was sent with Väinö Tanner to Moscow in 1939 before the first Finnish-Soviet war. On that occasion the belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used...