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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[headsonpikes]

Front page story on Canadian politics - interesting parallels with the current fuss over prorogation.

[CougarGA7]

Day 58 of the Winter War, January 26, 1940

Mikkeli: Prime Minister Risto Ryti visits General Headquarters to discuss the prospects for peace with Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim. Mannerheim urges the Prime Minister to make concessions to achieve a settlement.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Prime Minister Ryti and Mannerheim discuss prospects for peace

• Central Isthmus: in the Lähde road sector, heavy enemy shelling renders 'Fort Poppius' almost unusable for active combat purposes.

• Ladoga Karelia: a Finnish Fokker reconnaissance plane disappears on a flight over the northeast shore of Lake Ladoga. The pilot, (lentomestari?) Toivo Heilä, and the navigator, Lieutenant Reino Vaittinen, are both killed.

• Northern Finland: the last batch of 9th Division troops transferred from Suomussalmi arrive in Kuhmo.

• Mikkeli: Prime Minister Risto Ryti visits General Headquarters to discuss the prospects for peace with Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim. Mannerheim urges the Prime Minister to make concessions to achieve a settlement.

• Northern Finland: enemy aircraft bomb Ivalo, Kuusamo, Savukoski and Sotkamo.

• Abroad: at a press conference in Washington, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that any American who enlists in and swears allegiance to the army of a foreign country at war will thereby lose his American citizenship. However, since there had been no official declaration of war, the United States did not consider Finland to be a country at war, and American volunteers in Finland would therefore retain their citizenship.

• The British Labour Party and Cooperative Movement declare Britain will do all it can to help Finland.