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North. Although they lost Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns last week and were driven out of Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed. In modern war the taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...
...grab of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that a fateful precedent...
...Murmansk. 4. Viipuri...
Heimo Haitto was born in Viipuri (since last month Viborg, Russia), began fiddling at four. When he was nine his parents put him in the Viipuri Conservatory, later let him be adopted by the Conservatory's founder, Boris Sirpo. Last year Heimo made his debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Professor Sirpo conducting. In London, as the youngest entrant in an international competition of the British Council of Music, he won hands down...
Soon Finland was at war. Back in Viipuri, Violinist Haitto was walking to school one day when he heard an air-raid alarm. He rushed home, grabbed what he thought was his Guarnerius, headed for shelter. When the raid was over, the Sirpo home and the Conservatory were wrecked, and Heimo Haitto discovered that, in his excitement, he had saved a cheap violin. The Sirpos and their foster child headed for Sweden and Norway, where Heimo fiddled at benefit concerts for the Finnish Red Cross. Then they sailed for the U. S., where they arrived last February...