Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia gets the whole Rybachi Peninsula dominating Petsamo's port of Liinahamari, which Russia returns to Finland though retaining the right of free transit for Red goods and persons across this "Finnish corridor" to Norway and Norway's ice-free port of Kirkenes...
...mile rail connection which Finland must build this year, from the railhead at Kuolajärvi eastward to a link which Russia will build westward from Kandalakska. Russia will have free transit over this line to its juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line...
...Unfortunately, the valuable promise of assistance which the Western Powers gave us could not be realized when our neighbors, concerned for their own security, refused the right of transit for troops...
They decided intervention was out. To get a sufficient force-say 80,000 men-into action would be an extremely slow process. Even if Scandinavia permitted transit, they would have to land far north, either at Trondhjem or Narvik in Norway...
...Sweden had received numerous intimations that if she allowed the transit of Allied troops, Germany would attack...