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Russia's territorial demands had increased since the spring negotiations. Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich...
Last week an old man and an old issue turned up again in Italy. The man was ex-Premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84. The issue was the control of Fiume and the Istrian peninsula. The two had appeared together before in history...
...better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
...east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank free for unlimited movement...
Until last week Plouvien was just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...