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In the Winter War... Forward units of the Soviet 7th Army reach the main Finnish defenses, the Mannerheim Line, on the Karelian Isthmus where it is garrisoned by the Finnish 2nd Corps. Marshal Mannerheim is the Finnish Commander in Chief. Already the Finns are learning to exploit poor management of the Soviet advance. They are developing tactics to master the Soviet tanks by separating them from their supporting infantry and emerging from concealed positions during the night to destroy them in close combat. Finnish Blenheim bombers raid the Soviet airbase at Murmansk.
In Moscow... The Soviet government rejects a League of Nations proposal to end the war with Finland. USSR claims that it is no longer at war, having concluded a peace with the Finnish Democratic Republic, which it claims requested intervention on December 1st.
In London... Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, tells the House of Commons that Germany has descended to "the lowest form of warfare that can be imagined." He says that the Germans first abandoned the gun for the torpedo and had now dropped that for the mine.
In Moscow... The Soviet government rejects a League of Nations proposal to end the war with Finland. USSR claims that it is no longer at war, having concluded a peace with the Finnish Democratic Republic, which it claims requested intervention on December 1st.
In London... Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, tells the House of Commons that Germany has descended to "the lowest form of warfare that can be imagined." He says that the Germans first abandoned the gun for the torpedo and had now dropped that for the mine.