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Finnish sisu-meaning a peculiarly Finnish brand of doggedness, capable of facing down death itself-was at work against the Allies. Last week one element of sisu affecting Finland's war position became crystal clear: Finland's instinctive hate and dread of Russia is the principal barrier to a separate peace with Russia. The presence of German troops in Finland and the fear of German reprisal are secondary to the Finns' conviction that Russia is their implacable enemy...
...that the activities of the Communist Party in this country, with its savage vilification of all who refuse to follow the Party Line, with its sudden reversals of policy and its ideological twists and turns, with its totalitarian habits of mind and ways of action, remain a major barrier to true American-Russian understanding...
...Commission, meanwhile, came an 82-page report from the Tennessee Valley Authority, their third on the subject in six years, urging uniform freight rates throughout the nation. The report, entitled Regional Freight Rates-Barrier to National Productiveness, blasted the present rates as a major "economic maladjustment," standing in the path of U.S. postwar expansion. (Author of the first TVA report to this effect was J. Haden Alldredge, an ex-TVA economist, .who has since been appointed to ICC, and in fact became its chairman...
What Adolf Hitler told his people will not live long in their hearts and minds. He spoke again of Germany as the barrier to Bolshevism, said that the front was stabilized after "undeserved" reverses, and actually understated the Wehrmacht's recent resurgence in Russia (see p. 75). He said that the R.A.F. had made Germany a "war zone"; the people knew it, could see it in their blasted cities. He made the fantastic claim that Germany had lost only 542,000 dead in World War II; by a conservative Allied estimate, the Germans have lost four million men killed...
...Demyansk swamps south of Lake Ilmen, where Marshal Semion Timoshenko climaxed an offensive with a great breakthrough (TIME, March 8). For 18 months the Germans had clung doggedly to the western part of the swamp area. In the warm months these marshlands form one of the best natural barriers in Russia. Last year this barrier served the Germans; this year it will serve the Red Army and hamper any German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind...