Signs of panic multiplied in Helsinki.
As the Red Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find her own way out of the war.
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