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There's lots of snow here and so thick blizzards that the Russians haven't been able to bomb anything, but now it seems to clear again. We have been coasting and sleigh-riding and I won't have to be alone, for I have five cousins here and we have quite a gay time together. We hear the day's news on the radio, a very good radio it is too, and we keep each other glad, for "we are not to be fed on sadness" [part of a Finnish song]. First we listen...
...Southern China the Japanese Army recklessly bombed the French-owned Yunnan-Indo-China railroad. French Ambassador to Tokyo Charles Arsène-Henri protested the loss of five French lives; and the U. S. Government made representations against this interference with the last railroad carrying American goods into China. Japan's answer was to bomb the line again. Japanese forces claimed great victories around Nanning. But meantime, for the first time since the war began, a Japanese had courage enough to stand up on his feet and criticize the Army not on minor points of procedure...
Since Adolf Hitler's victory inspection of bomb-shattered Warsaw last October, German-occupied Poland has been verboten to neutral correspondents. Only the meagerest details of how 19,000,000 people were faring at the hands of their new Nazi masters filtered through the news blackout to the outside world. The woeful experiences of escaped refugees, occasional off-the-record reportings of neutral consular agents, revelations of the Nazis themselves, have generally added up to the same thing...
Last week the Christian Front was again to the fore. G-Man John Edgar Hoover put the Front in the headlines last fortnight by seizing 17 obscure members in New York City, announcing that they had plotted to overrun the East, bomb Reds, exterminate Jews, set up a dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 22). Detroit's radiorating Father Charles E. Coughlin loudly and specifically disavowed the Christian Front to which the captives belonged. The press dug up additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried...
What happened, apparently, was that a Finnish anti-aircraft shell had caught the plane squarely and exploded its bomb load, blowing it to pieces." First detailed accounts of the tactics used by the Finns to wreck the Russian invasion at Suomussalmi reached the U. S. along with the first good pictures (see opposite page) of the battlefield. When two Russian divisions (the 163rd and 44th) occupied Suomussalmi in the early days of the war (TIME, Jan. 1), the Finns had only two companies to oppose them. The Finns, aided by their network of railways, quickly brought up reinforcements from...