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...even the Finns could deny that they had suffered a bitter defeat. The Russians had rounded the bend of the Isthmus, were only 150 miles from Helsinki. Before them lay, not a carefully built line of fortifications, but a series of makeshift positions, with half an army to defend them. And while spring's thaw would make the going tougher for the Russians, it would also thaw out their frozen northern army, bring better bombing weather. As if to give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale...
...retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts they had to defend, the Finns could spare a bare 100,000 to man their Mannerheim forts and entrenchments-and they had no reserves. As the second week of battle drew to a close General Harald Ohquist's Karelian Army was exhausted but still confident. There seemed to be a lull...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 and James Pattee '41 will defend the Crimson position...
...little tossing trawlers in the raw North Sea, who can scarcely defend themselves with rifles when Nazi bombers dive at them from the storm scud, Germany's air war on British shipping is a very real and horrid thing. Machine-gun fire sweeps the deck, bombs blow the ship apart, men are hurled mangled and stunned into the combers, the ship goes down leaving survivors to flounder and gasp and freeze until help comes, if it does...
...year-old, Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...