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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Up to here, the tune had gone merrily for Germany. But all of a sudden the notes began to go flat. Finland was putting up such a fight that Russia evidently could not take on a new adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy...
For six centuries Russia tried and spectacularly failed to conquer Finland before Alexander I won it from Sweden in 1808-09. Alexander had two big advantages: 1) he made a deal with the Swedish gentry in Finland promising them self-government; 2) he waited until February to begin his invasion...
Surprised by the cleverness of Finland's preparations, Russia's press exploded in wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth...
In a staff car with standard camouflage (netting over the roof), King George motored to the chateau, in a provincial town well back of the British lines in France, where lives Britain's field commander, Viscount Gort. The King was accompanied by his brother H. R. H. Major General...
By coincidence or not, the French forecast of a war of maneuver was preceded and followed by greatly increased activity of German patrols, all the way from the Moselle to the Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such...