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...moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government in Copenhagen. Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki rides in the day coach, has part of his staff live at the Embassy to save rent. The Norwegian Minister still lunches weekly with the Ministers of Finland, Denmark and Sweden, and each fortnight these four are joined by Belgium's Ambassador and the Minister of The Netherlands. French Ambassador Count de Saint-Quentin has nothing...
Shortly after Russia invaded Finland last November, the U. S. was shocked to find that Russian purchases in the U. S. (copper, aluminum, machinery) were soaring. So the State Department slapped a moral embargo against the export of strategic goods to Russia. And in February, Secretary Morgenthau persuaded U. S. machine tool makers (who were doing a big business with Moscow) to give their fellow citizens priority. U. S. sales to the U. S. S. R. plummeted from $11,313,000 (January...
...Finland's northern nickel deposits...
...Transit across Finland to Norway and Sweden...
Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attaché of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland...