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...still unmade. For four days Mr. Roosevelt also withheld the statement. When he did speak last week, he did not name Germany. His words were for-the-record echoes of all that a U. S. President could say and had already said for Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Finland. ("If civilization is to survive, the rights of the smaller nations . . . must be respected by their more powerful neighbors"). The complacent Nazis considered his statement harmless enough to print in Copenhagen. To the U. S. people, President Roosevelt sounded like a bystander who is tired of talking at Adolf Hitler...
...explaining to do, inasmuch as German occupation of the Norwegian coast would spoil Russian dreams of reaching the Atlantic. Next day Premier Molotov served up a new set of demands on the new Finnish Minister to Moscow, Juho Paasikivi. Chief demands: 1) immediate construction of the promised railroad across Finland to Sweden; 2) an economic agreement at once. If either the Allies or Germany invaded Sweden, it was almost certain that Russia would further "adjust her frontiers" with Finland, push up to Sweden's elbow...
...veteran newsman who was not misled was white-haired Leland Stowe, correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Rejected last fall by the New York Herald Tribune because at 39 he was "too old to cover a war," Newsman Stowe went to Finland for Colonel Frank Knox's paper, sent back some of the most able, eloquent dispatches of that...
...when Denmark awoke last week to find scuttle-helmeted Nazi infantrymen patroling its streets the U. S. awoke minus a $500,000-a-day export trade. Choking off the seaborne trade of the three Scandinavians as the U. S. S. R. had already choked the commerce of Good Customer Finland, Adolf Hitler had over night cut more than 5% from U. S. export trade, nearly 4% from her imports...
Exports. Since World War II began, U. S. exports to Scandinavia and Finland have rocketed 81%, for January-February of this year hit a total of well over $30,000,000. For 1939 biggest item of U. S. sales was automobiles and accessories worth $22,210,000. To Scandinavia went $24,102,000 in U. S. metals and manufactures, $28,853,000 in coal, petroleum products and other nonmetallic minerals, $12,624,000 in tires, rosin, soybeans, tobacco; other millions in food, machinery, textiles, aircraft. Scandinavia might well have doubled its 1939 U. S. purchases, if World...