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...expected that Finland, now involved with Germany in the attack on Russia, would lose her chance for exemption. But it was too late to retract a bill the President signed last fortnight, allowing Finland to postpone the installments due in 1941 and 1942 on her debt, pay them over a 20-year period starting...
...including neutral nations in his order, the President finessed the problem that most worried the State Department-slapping the Axis alone. But in an accompanying statement, he showed an inclination to be more lenient with the Governments (and citizens) of Finland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S.S.R. than with Italy, Germany and the countries they have occupied. These nations, he indicated, might avoid freezing control through general licenses permitting financial transactions "upon the receipt of adequate assurances . . . that the general licenses will not be employed ... to evade the (anti-Axis) purposes of this order...
...Totalitarian World was organizing. The German press scoffed at reports, originating in the U.S. press, that Adolf Hitler was about to announce a Federation of European States under German leadership. Such a federation was already virtually a fact, except for such nervous little islands of democracy as Sweden, Finland, Switzerland (which is useful to the Germans as a clearinghouse for foreign exchange). France was practically in the war against Great Britain (see p. 21). Portugal was strengthening the defenses of its Atlantic islands, and Lisbon was a nest of Nazi schemers working to have those defenses used against the Democratic...
...From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...
...effect of the Finland report was to bring from both Helsinki and Berlin prompt denials that more German troops were in Finland than those authorized by last year's agreement to cross Finland on their way to Norway. Joseph Stalin, disturbed by growing pro-Axis sentiment in Finland, doubtless sought to serve notice that he still kept an eye on that country...