Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden was almost as jittery as Finland. Rumors were rife that Comrade Stalin would soon issue an "invitation" to Swedish negotiators to come to Moscow and talk about mutual assistance pacts and Swedish-Russian naval bases. While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters...
HELSINGFORS, (Tuesday)--The Government of Finland, which will send its "final answer" on Russia's demands to Moscow tonight, is preparing for the possibility of United States participation in an arbitration move...
...Bulwark of Democracy." Whatever the fate of Finland, Scandinavia proper remained a prosperous, progressive and almost defenseless "Bulwark of Democracy," much better worth defending than were Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland...
...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
...Sweden: yellow cross, blue field. Denmark: white on red. Norway: white & blue cross on red ground. Finland: blue on white...