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...front here is ... a vast area of forests filled with Finnish and Russian patrols who are continually meeting and dueling in the bitterest weather conditions of any war ever fought. . . . The soldiers' daily routine is one or two hours of patrol, then back to the headquarters hut where they sleep in a big room for two or three hours, then out again for an hour or two and back for four. This goes on continuously, the men never getting out of their clothes, except to take a Finnish steam-bath every couple of days, when they must undress...
...Sometime during the night Russians pushed up a patrol of 800 men ... to a hill 400 metres from my hut and the Finns' main supply road. Here the Russians set up machine-gun nests in a commanding position to attack. . . . One hundred Finns sneaked up on the Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter...
...Sweetener of hut and of hall...
Metropolitan homes were emptied of their children. On the whole, when mothers accompanied children to live with strange families in the countryside, the arrangement was carried out with good-natured tolerance by both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought with their young hosts, ran wild. In most homes the kitchen was the focus of friction, mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were...
SURVEY AFTER MUNICH-Graham Hut-ton-Little, Brown ($2.50). Brief, fact-filled political and economic surveys of the countries now caught between the Nazi anvil and the Russian hammer & sickle, by a former editor of the London Economist...