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...able to reach any country in Europe on medium waves, the Nazis provide good medium-wave "People's"' sets to Rumania, Greece, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Hungary. Recently Britain muscled into this Nazi preserve, using the most powerful transmitting station in Europe to bring English propaganda on medium wave to every set in Europe...
Last week the great Jean Sibelius, 76-year-old Finnish composer, appealed to the U.S. people not to deny Finland their sympathy, since Finland had to make a hard and bitter choice. Said...
Composer Sibelius did not mention that the "barbaric hordes of the East" had not bombed Finland this time until Finland had taken Hitler as her ally. But that was the bitterness which was Finland's choice. Had she not so chosen, she might have been mercilessly attacked by the equally barbaric and far more dangerous hordes of the West...
...Education Fellowship, 26-year-old international organization of Progressive Educators, convening for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. Ann Arbor, bright with intense sunshine and the chatter of 1,800 delegates from 22 nations, had a Geneva flavor. At the last moment the Fellowship learned that its president, Finland's Laurin Zilliacus, had been detained. He cabled enigmatically from Finland: LEAVING FOR THE FRONT. . . . STILL BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY...
...once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer of Adolf Hitler...