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...speed up material aid to Finland, Sweden sent in armaments, Britain prepared to replenish Swedish arsenals thus depleted...
...more bitter than the cold was a glacial realization which last week for the first time crushed Europe's capitals, big and small: the Continent was on the brink of a general war which might engulf even the most unwilling neutrals. Two wars-Allies v. Germany, Finland v. Russia-seemed dangerously close to merging and swallowing all of Scandinavia...
...immediate danger to Scandinavia rolled up swiftly like a thundercloud. No Scandinavian head has lain entirely easy since Russia attacked Finland, but the new danger sprang indirectly from a humanitarian impulse. The world's heart had gone out to the Finns, and nation after nation put out a helping hand. Sooner or later Germany was certain to grow uneasy because of this world hostility to her quasi ally, Russia...
Last week Germany awoke when Neville Chamberlain sent a telegram to Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol of the League of Nations. In accordance with the League resolution to help Finland, he said, Britain intended "to afford the Finnish Government all the assistance she is in a position to give. She already is taking necessary steps to this...
Next day a German Foreign Office spokesman tried to be jocular about it. "Germany won't object," he said, "if Britain sends Finland some old cannon from the Tower of London, or gives the Finns the same assistance she gave the Poles. But"-his voice hardened-"active assistance is another matter." Then Germany apparently began to realize how active, and how worldwide, outside assistance not only to Finland, but to Scandinavia in general, had become. Here was a new Spain. Help reported last week...