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...Russia extends her hegemony around the Baltic and reaches back toward maritime power, Zhdanov gains in prestige. For Leningrad is Russia's No. 1 seaport-in area, the world's second largest-and headquarters of the Red Fleet. And if Russia's power spreads through Scandinavia to the Atlantic, Zhdanov will be the man who wields...
...might become the capital of northern Europe. Last week the Marine War Museum in the Admiralty opened an exhibition depicting Russian naval history since Peter the Great, but Russia's naval history has never glowed too brightly. Comrade Zhdanov may just possibly have been thinking about a British fleet off Petsamo...
Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was amazed and wildly happy. He had been aloft in giddy rigging before-had climbed to power (as Admiral of the Combined Fleet, beginning in 1936) and into politics (as Navy Minister in three crucial Cabinets, 1937-39). But seldom had he dared dream of touching this uppermost skysail of influence...
...added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet. White Russians in the U. S. talked excitedly about a counter-revolutionary regime, to be set up in northern Russia if the Allies strike there...
...Sent its Pacific fleet to cooperate with Britain's in the China Seas...