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Leaders of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant faiths will join in discussions with diplomats from Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and other countries, as well as with noted businessmen and educators...
Defeat by the balloting of the American Student Union of the Harvard Student Union referendum to denounce Russia for its action in Finland was admitted last night by Alan S. Gottlieb '40, president of the H.S.U...
...Student Union statement says, "The lack of a condemnation of the Soviet Union in no way implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...
...have the Finns been plagued with typhus. Bi-weekly steam baths are their chief protection. Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service, who recently spent a month traveling through Finland, believes that there is no danger of a typhoid epidemic...
...Soon Finland was at war. Back in Viipuri, Violinist Haitto was walking to school one day when he heard an air-raid alarm. He rushed home, grabbed what he thought was his Guarnerius, headed for shelter. When the raid was over, the Sirpo home and the Conservatory were wrecked, and Heimo Haitto discovered that, in his excitement, he had saved a cheap violin. The Sirpos and their foster child headed for Sweden and Norway, where Heimo fiddled at benefit concerts for the Finnish Red Cross. Then they sailed for the U. S., where they arrived last February...