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...Signal. What could the U.S. do about Czechoslovakia? It joined France and Britain in condemning the coup. As for the crisis in Finland, at week's end Washington was officially silent...
Like Poor Old Benes. The Marshall Plan was not a futile gesture. Indeed, its preliminary success probably forced the Kremlin strategists to move in Czechoslovakia and Finland while the moving was still easy. The Marshall Plan was, however, an incomplete gesture. Greece won't be won by canned pineapples nor China by made-in-Washington land reforms. The Czech coup might not have been tried if the U.S. had not looked helpless in Greece, helpless in China, and silly -or worse-in Palestine...
After Czechoslovakia, Finns thought their turn had come. Last week, Finland's aging (77) President Juho Kusti Paasikivi received a handwritten letter in the scrawling script of Stalin. It was a polite but imperative summons which Finns construed as the end of their uneasy, nominal independence...
Wrote Stalin: "I assume that Finland, not less than Rumania and Hungary, is interested in a pact of mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R. against possible German aggression. . . . Wishing to establish conditions for a radical improvement in the relations between our countries . . . the Soviet government proposes the conclusion of a Soviet-Finnish pact...
...been sharply underlined by the rapid turnover of events during the past week across the Atlantic. But the determined Congressional opposition to vital aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets. One of the "Save ERP" Committee's points "reconstruction not relief"--is still in decided danger from such influential Congressmen as Senators Taft and Ball, who want to slice the program drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program...