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...incident of first-rate national meaning. . . . Sometimes plays are more potent than statesmen. . . . This play, depicting the tragedy of Finland, seemed to me a rank, inflammatory job, pleading for intervention, sneering at our reluctance to go in. America, still hesitant to plunge into the burning ruins of Europe, was compared to Pontius Pilate, callous and cowardly, evading a responsibility. ... It played to capacity audiences, which are traditionally undemonstrative here [Washington], and sent them away moist-eyed. Most . . . were swept off their feet...
...blessings they enjoy in this democratic land," Mrs. Fisher decided, by following the example of her small Vermont neighbors. So she wrote to educators in 48 States proposing that school children contribute their pennies to a fund for child victims of war in China, Poland, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Norway...
...soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron Mannerheim win Finland's independence...
That Falkenhorst did not brilliantly distinguish himself then is suggested by the fact that he came out of his first war only a captain. In planning the Finland expedition, as General von der Goltz's operations officer, he learned about embarking troops, transporting them overseas, disembarking them for action in rough, cold country, effecting naval cooperation to feed and supply them...
...report to a sullen, worried House of Commons. Stripping the speech of reassuring forensic shocks, stupefied M. P.s learned: 1) that although aware "for many months" of German transport and troop accumulations at Baltic ports, the Allies were unprepared for a northern Nazi thrust, the troops assembled for aiding Finland having been dispersed; 2) that the mining of the Norwegian waters on April 8 coincided purely by "curious chance" with the Nazi coup; 3) that although the Nazis invaded Denmark and Norway on April 8, the first British naval forces did not land at Namsos until April...