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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese soldiers were caked in mud, chest high; their beards were bristling with two weeks' growth; and they were ravenously hungry. The peasants, in fleeing before the approach of the Japanese, had taken their pigs, cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were...
...Soviet Russia, which demanded half of them because the Red Army had taken half of Poland...
...Russia's two main supply lines, the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and the Baltic-White Sea Canal. Aggressive and continuous air attack on the rail line would leave Russia's raiding columns marooned in the wastes of north Finland. By week's end the Finns had taken to the air and were reported to have bombed the railway...
Finland's Chances depended on what she was playing for. Failure to crack the Mannerheim Line had already hurt Russia's prestige. (In twelve days Germany had taken every major Polish city but Warsaw and Lwow.) Effective help from Italy, Great Britain and especially Sweden (which was most threatened by her traditional enemy's advance) might enable the Finns to hold off the Russians for many months, and in many months many things could happen. One thing that happened this week was a U. S. credit of $10,000,000 to Finland. But if no further military...
...Majesty crossed the rainswept Channel on the bridge of a destroyer, with destroyer and airplane escort, but care was taken that Lord Haw-Haw (Germany's super-accented radio propagandist who kids the English in English) and other Nazis should not know he had gone until after he landed. The British Government wanted no repetition of what occurred recently when the President of France "secretly" visited the front, saw-across the river on the German bank-a banner with letters ten feet high, reading...