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Throughout the civilized world last week the fate of Finland and the future of civilization haunted the minds of civilized men. In the U. S. Senate Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas was speaking just before a proposal to aid Finland was placed before the most powerful legislative body in the world. It was cold blustery in Washington that day -considerably warmer than in Helsinki and a number of Senators stayed home. The aged Senator, tireless foe of his hatred of it whetted by his 37 years Congress, was in great form. Representative of a State that has twice population, more...
...Senator Sheppard was not talking about aid to Finland. He was talking about Prohibition (as he always has on this date since 1920). "We cannot continue," he cried, "to pour nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons of alcoholic drink every year into the veins of our democracy and expect it to retain the vigor and efficiency so vitally necessary in these critical times." Then he sat down. (Manifestations of applause in the galleries...
Proposal. Whether the Senator's diagnosis was the correct one, the next few minutes suggested to many an appalled observer that something had certainly sapped democracy's vigor. Read to the Senators was President Roosevelt's modest proposal for a small loan to Finland. It was not the only one to reach them. Youngish, independent Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan (pop. 4,800,000) had proposed an outright loan of $60,000,000, but no action had been taken...
Wrote the President: "There is without doubt in the United States a great desire ... to assist Finland to finance the purchase of agricultural surpluses and manufactured products, not including implements of war." But, he went on, there was also no desire for "the creation of precedents which might lead to large credits to nations in Europe. . . ." He therefore proposed that Congress increase the revolving fund of the Export-Import Bank, to enable it to finance exports (but not arms). He said that soon the Government would consider applications for loans in Scandinavia and South America...
LONDON--Military and political experts, describing the Russian-Finnish War as the pivot of a greater conflict, said tonight that British and French volunteer forces may be sent to Finland before spring to bolster Allied influence among the neutral nations...