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Last week Russia arrived again at the Finland Station, but this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...
Last week a subdued President Roosevelt gave reporters a measured and cautious account of his measured and cautious action. On Monday, said he, "there was reason to become alarmed at the possibility of extension of warfare into the Baltic." Next day the Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden and Denmark called at the White House. Wednesday morning the President wrote a note (addressed to President Kalinin of Russia, but intended for Dictator Stalin), left it on his desk for Secretary Cordell Hull to read when he returned from New York at 2 p. m. The Secretary suggested several changes, the note...
Last Hour. While the larger issue of Soviet armed intervention or peaceful mediation in World War II remained a question, Moscow proceeded swiftly snapping what a Swedish commentator called "Stalin shackles" on the defenseless Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland...
Finnish Bargain. Spunkier than the other Baltic States, Finland last week partially mobilized, prepared to drive a bargain with the Soviet Union rather than simply capitulate. Instead of going to Moscow himself, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko sent his diplomatic subordinate, the Finnish Minister to Sweden Juho Paasikivi, a onetime Premier of Finland, now President of the Finnish Foreign Trade Association. "We are calm and feel not the slightest nervousness!" cried Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander, while letting it be known that reservists were being rushed to strengthen Finland's defenses along the Soviet frontier. It was assumed that Dictator...
...glance at the map shows that Russia does not need the Alands, unless she is imperialistically minded toward Scandinavia, and Swedes hoped Moscow would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...