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Early this week Finland made the last desperate gesture of a hard-pressed Government. It appealed to the League of Nations to intercede. Professing bewilderment, Soviet Russia informed the League of Nations that she regarded Finland's appeal as "unfounded," declaring that she was maintaining "peaceful relations" with the "People's Government" of Finland...
...Break? Outside Russia last week only the German press gave even lip service to the proposition that J. Stalin & Co. were justified in cracking down on Finland. In private conversations German officers gloomed that if the Red Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power...
Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...
...Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics were to have been held in Japan, were switched to Finland because of the war in Eastern Asia (TIME, July...
Europe" (presumably Finland). Editor Cockburn, also on the staff of London's Communist newsorgan the Daily Worker, tried to suggest, even as the Kremlin's propagandists have in Moscow, that Finland was aided and abetted by Great Britain in her "aggressions" against the Soviet Union...