Adolf Hitler was absent. In his stead, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop last week presented the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Dr. T. M. Kivimäki, Finland's Minister to Berlin.
Perhaps the Germans were worried about Finland's recent overture to the Allies and wished to woo Helsinki with honors. Last week a New York Times correspondent cabled from Stockholm that Väino Alfred Tanner, potent leader of Finland's Socialist Democratic Party, and many another Finnish leader were now determined to sue for a separate peace with Russia.
If so, Finland probably...
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