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...that aid to Finland was gathering momentum was clear. Following a meeting of the Allied War Council (see p. 22), the Manchester Guardian's diplomatic correspondent came out flatly with the statement that "the Allies are moving toward intervention in the Finnish war." At Whitehall, a Government spokesman blandly ignored correspondents' questions as to whether the Guardian's statement represented the official British view, but in the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went out of his way to damn Russian air attacks on Finnish towns and to announce that further Allied...
...hundred volunteers promptly signed up to go to Finland, and it was reported that a force of 5,000 was being recruited...
...Britain and France arranged to transport Italian "volunteers" and airplanes, which had been refused passage through Germany, across France by train and thence to Finland in British ships...
...From Copenhagen to Finland went 62-year-old Colonel Valdemar Tretow Loof, who had just resigned from the Danish Army, to take command of 600 Danes already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting...
...unrevealed number of Poles, veterans of September's stampede, left France for Finland. With them were some Polish-American mechanics who had volunteered too late to help Blitzkrieged Poland...