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...Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years...
...American Cause finds Poet Mac Leish even farther from the Finland Station. In view of his relations with the White House, it is almost an official statement of the case for democracy. Quibblers may experience an uneasy wish that MacLeish had been a little more explicit as to what the democracy of the future will look like. But most Americans will agree that the case for the democracy of the present has seldom been better presented...
...inciting this country to war?" Does Bright Boy Ginn mean the same "Jews" who "incited" Germany to war against decency, honor and humanity, or the "Jews" who "incited" Italy to war against well-nigh impotent neighbors, or does he mean the "Jews" who "incited" Russia to war against Finland, or perhaps the "Jews" who drove Japan to war against China? Ginn probably reads too much Nazi propaganda. His letter mirrors only too clearly the . . . type of mind that slows up a country's progress...
...important section of Labour's Aims in War and Peace deals with the Soviet attack on Finland, which the Labor Party's official statement calls "bribery, deception, blackmail, aggression. . . ." In the Party's Peace Declaration the Russian attack is called "a shameless imitation of the Nazi technique in foreign policy." This is an important trend. Just as British appeasers were taken in by Hitler's anti-bolshevist policy, so most British labor leaders were taken in by Stalin's Popular Front tactic. That part of labor's self-deception, at least, is apparently over...
Whither, America? During the past years we, on the side-lines, have criticized the democracies for not halting aggression sooner, by war if necessary; we have criticized Sweden for not aiding Finland. Turkey for not aiding Greece; we, on the side-lines, have criticized others for not fighting our battle...