Show Peace in the North stood alone against a huge W e could not win the war The inevitable end would have been the destruction of our Thus spoke Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner as a peace delegation winged its way homeward from The war was over and Finland would regain her Field Marshal Baron Karl Gustav figured Finland had lost men to Russia's which was proof enough that the vanquished army was far man for But the war had left Finland a its best men some of its best land lost to the invader Ahead lay a tough but the kind to which generations of Finns have become Gradually the true story leaked First peace overtures had come from Sweden and 0 T 3 y Tough job once the war was And as the Finns busied themselves moving refugees from ceded their foreign ministry made haste to weld that will not again be promised Vaino Chicago Daily News Edgar Ansel reported lie knew why Finland never appealed directly for allied The German minister at Helsinki informed Finland that issuance of such an appeal would bring German troops to assist the TO BULD J r ROAD across 30 YEAR LEASE ON HANGO ISLANDS IN aCMe Gulf 0 LENINGRAD WHAT RUSSIA GETS stood alone where Russo-German pressure had helped bring the allies had lost considerable In the Balkans and Near where combined Russo-German pressure has been kept to a minimum because of the Finnish there sprang up overnight signs that the dictator nations had reached a working long fearful of Russian aggression in the was reported negotiating a trade pact with Moscow under Nazi Germany also worked on a Soviet-Rumanian non-aggression These things left Turkey out on a soon she will be forced to surrender her friendship with the allies and play ball with the Moscow-Rome-Berlin For the biggest immediate gain was a chance to beat the British With Russia at the Nazis could now expect munitions and foodstuffs from Joe |