Perfect Propaganda

A bird's eye view of the Finnish front in a blinding snowstorm. In the foreground are eighteen Finnish skiers in white parkas huddled behind a snow-bank ready to surround and annihilate a Russian division (their fourth this week). To their left is a column of Russian tanks destroyed by a Finnish schoolboy. The snow-covered mound to the right hides the bodies of five blind men, six workers' children, and a one-armed rheumatic old woman (sole support of a family of twelve) who were machine-gunned by a Red air fleet. Just beyond the woods the Red troops are retreating wildly from [unclear: Suomussalmi] towards the Soviet border, without shoes, uniforms or underwear. Some are tearing the bark off the trees to appease their mad hunger. (They haven't eaten since the Czarist regime). The eyewitness reporters in the snow-filled shell-hold nearby are Harold Denny, Webb Miller and Mr. X (the source of reliable reports). The huge Soviet bomber hanging from the pine trees was brought down by a member of the Helsinki Girls Foils Club (a Junior member). The camouflaged igloo on skis near the lake is the Finnish Army field headquarters and the naked men near the igloo are Red deserters from Georgia who report that the sun never shines in the Soviet Union. The fresh ski tracks in the middle foreground were made by Colonel X and his adjutant who are off to bomb the Murmansk Railroad for the late city edition. The snow covered figure on the white horse leading the white-clad ski troops in the blinding snowstorm in the struggle for democracy is Baron Mannerhcim

P.B. & B.G.