Word: viipuri
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...through the snow on the Karelian Isthmus, no word of it leaked out: Leningrad is the only one of the world's ten largest cities without a foreign correspondent. But one thing was certain: that to celebrate its 22nd anniversary last week the Red Army did not take Viipuri. If Joseph Stalin was disappointed, that was nothing to the chagrin of his best friend, Andrei Zhdanov...
...Finland, the Russians cracked the Mannerheim Line, took Summa, went for Viipuri, headed into the vulnerable vitals of the little country (see p. 30}. The man who will pay out the money to Finland (if & when), Jesse H. Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, famous poker-player, veiled his ice-cold eyes sleepily, told the House committee: Finland is a good risk...
...people of Sweden believe this, even if their new peace-at-any-price Government does not. Last week, with the Red Army at the gates of Viipuri (see p. 30), the biggest question in Scandinavia was no longer who would win the Russo-Finnish war but who was next on Joe Stalin's list. And yet, the Swedish people might not yet know how thoroughly their Government had given collective security in the North the miss-in-balk. Socialist Deputy Flyg, long vociferously antiCommunist, s pilled the beans in his Stockholm newspaper Folkets Dagblad and thereby forced the Government...
...blood-soaked snow and frozen muck of the plain south of Viipuri, Finland's Verdun, a sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia...
...crash. The worst began on the 13th day of fighting. Supported by heavy artillery and airplanes that bombarded the Finnish lines day and night, the Russians threw fresh troops and tanks against the vital Summa sector, where the villages of Summa and Kamara guarded the road and railroad to Viipuri (see map}. Simultaneously they attacked in the middle of the isthmus, trying to force the defiles between the chain of isthmus lakes and encircle Lake Muolaa. This action, if successful, would flank the defenders of Summa. At the same time the Russians hit both ends of the Mannerheim Line...