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...delegate who stayed was no better pleased with the way things went inside A. Y. C. Franklin Kramer, from the All-Campus Peace Federation of the University of Wisconsin, tried to get the Congress to denounce the suppression of civil liberties in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the invasion of Finland. Not a chance. Complained Mr. Kramer: "I'd like to see a little deviation from the Communist Party line. . . . We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism...
Although the brightest spotlight played on Bessarabia and The Straits, Stalin and Molotov watched other performances in war's many-ringed circus last week. In the Baltic the Red Fleet finished intensive war games, perhaps designed to help persuade Finland to let the U. S. S. R. fortify the Åland Islands, which would weaken Germany in the Baltic. In the Far East, against Japan, Russia needs more than Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang for security against Japan; she needs a strong China, which Britain would also like to see. And across the Himalayas lies India...
Tough, erect little Oscar Penttila (pronounced Pen'-te-la) was born in Finland 37 years ago. Like many another Finnish youngster, he went to Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week...
...fire back-and therefore obliged Japan to send about 1,125,000 armed men on to Chinese soil to establish a New Order in East Asia. Thus began the war in China. This week the China incident is three years old. In that time Republican Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, The Lowlands, the Baltic States, even the French Empire, have all succumbed to treachery or superior military might. And all that time the Chinese race, supposedly the most craven and corruptible people on earth, have held back the sharp, mechanical thrusts of one of the three supposedly toughest...
Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...