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...Finland. Russia is the arch-criminal this time, not Germany, and as far as the United States is concerned she has committed an outrage with possibly even less justification than those of the Reich, against a country which is more intimately related to America by common ties and friendship than either Czechoslovakia or Poland. The significance of the Finnish conquest, (its outcome is undebatable) may be less far-reaching than those of its predecessors, but pacifistic sentiment in the United States will clearly be put to another severe strain...
...Hitler's. . . . The so-called "Great-Russian chauvinism" was excoriated by all revolutionary parties prior to the Revolution of 1917. . . . This is the revolutionary past that Stalin betrays, and this is the betrayal he gloats over, by present-day Soviet policy in the Baltic, in Finland, in Poland, in Bessarabia, in the Balkans...
...three minutes ($29.75) Russian born Cleveland Oilman Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, self-appointed telephone diplomat who thinks he helps world peace by overseas calls to heads of European and Asiatic governments,* talked with Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, warning him that Finland must cooperate with Russia or "she will have the same experience as Poland...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
Speaking on "Russia and the War," Professor Karpovich pointed to the Soviets' present attempt to subjugate Finland and her recent attack on Poland as indications that she is out for everything which...