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...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
This, it can be seen, is an exact reversal of the thought in the Union when it refused to condemn the invasion of Finland and approaches the policy of the Student Defense League, although the strong declaration on keeping out of war is a marked difference between...
After conducting his course in housing research at M.I.T. for the next few months, Alvar Aalto, well-known Finnish architect, will return to his native land to aid in the reconstruction of Finland...
Designer of the famous Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Planto, Aalto is now more interested in low cost housing, as one of the important problems of the World today. In this connection he is in charge of the reconstruction of Finland and the housing of many thousands of Finns who have moved out of the territory recently occupied by Russia...
...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...