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...proved effective with bird dogs and masses. When the "Fascist Beast" was unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times a week on the Second Front, observers could not help speculating on the Party's purpose...
Knocked in the head were excited reports from Stockholm and Berlin that Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Commander in Chief of the Finnish Army, would stand for election. With President Ryti still in office, sternly anti-Communist Mannerheim' was left free to handle Finland's darkening military prospects. Many reports had Finland feeling for peace. But Finland's primary aim probably is not peace in itself, but security when peace does come. Cagey, conservative President Ryti is the logical choice to negotiate for Finnish security...
...could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would hardly fight the Red Army in order to save Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim's Government...
Field Marshal Mannerheim reportedly had asked the American Legation in Helsinki to find out whether his well-known hatred of the Soviet Union would be a bar to a negotiated peace. To this feeler, the Russians apparently were as cold as Russian winter...
Helsinki: Marshal Mannerheim, whom the Allied High Command had today recognized as ruler of Finland, was interviewed by our correspondent. "I am a great believer in Democracy," the Marshal said, "but I have hundreds of thousands of dossiers* to go through yet, and you must remember that Rome was not built...