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...Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Europe's traditional "Northern Neutrals," only Sweden has managed to maintain even the appearance of neutrality in World War II. Last week from Stockholm came some details of the price Hitler puts on neutrality...
...beginning of the Russian war, the Swedish Government gave the Nazis permission to transport one division of troops through Sweden from Norway to Finland. The "one division" rolled over the Swedish railways for weeks in hundreds of trains crammed with soldiers and arms...
...Finland the present war with Russia is a private war, only incidentally connected with Hitler's conquests. Speaking over the radio last week, Finland's Speaker of Parliament Väinö P. Hakkila stated Finland's uncomplicated war aims, showed clearly why Finland went...
...according to Hakkila, is an eastern boundary that would be easier to defend. By occupying Karelia (ceded to Russia in 1920) to the east, Finland's land boundary with Russia from the White Sea to the Gulf of Finland would be conveniently short, broken up by the big lakes Onega and Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east...
...second Finnish war aim is just as simple. Russia must pay for the damage of her 1939 attack on Finland. Hakkila had even decided how she would pay. Said he: "As it is certain that the present Moscow Government cannot pay compensation, full indemnity must be taken in kind...