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Last week the Moscow radio broadcast a threat : unless the Finns give back the weapons they stole from the Russians in the battle of Suomussalmi, Russia will declare war on Finland...
...Only Finland, superb, nay, sublime in the jaws of peril, Finland shows what free men can do. . . . There, exposed for all the world to see, is the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. . . . Everyone can see how Communism robs the soul of a nation, how it makes it abject and hungry in peace and proves it base and abominable in war. ... If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Bark Ages when every vestige of human...
...first Swedish volunteers were killed in Finland last week (see p. 34). Stockholm's largest four newspapers carried full-page advertisements saying: "Now that the world knows what it is to be a Finn, it is your duty to show what it means to be a Swede. Make up your mind now and join the Swedish volunteer Army. With Finland for Sweden...
...Finland's wiry old peasant President, Kyosti Kallio-73 years old and full of sisu (courage)-last week thought up a new scheme to get supplies for his country. To the New York Times's Correspondent Harold Denny he said...
...could not all prosperous American cities decide each to take care of one city in Finland-or each one of your 49 States** adopt a Finnish town...