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...called "Pioneering" Nation have failed, so far, to extensively colonize and develop Alaska. Certainly the Finns are best adapted to such a work. A flourishing Alaska may some day play the same part for this continent that Finland is now playing for Scandinavia...
...proved in his seizures of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, has a great knack of doing his grabbing where the western powers cannot get hold of him. The Axis still protects his southern frontier, Russia his eastern frontier. The Westwall guards his western frontier and the fall of Finland has made him safe from attack in the north. His vulnerable quarter is the southeast...
...failure of the Allies to prevent Finland's fall was one sentimental reason that the Daladier Government fell sympathetically last week (see p. 20). In Great Britain, too, the Finnish post-mortem continued, but with a difference. On the strength of it the Chamberlain Government was described as "riding a bull market." Far from condemning what Britain had done and left undone for brave little Finland, from an unexpected source, the Labor benches in the House of Commons, M. P. Josiah Wedgwood rejoiced: "If it were not for the greatest piece of luck this country...
...Ready. The Prime Minister next revealed that as late as last January, Finnish Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim secretly advised the Allies that Finland "did not then require men, as his resources in man power were sufficient, in his opinion, to last until the thaw came. He did, however, say he would be very glad to have some 30,000 men in the month of May, but stipulated that they should be trained soldiers...
...Allies, according to Mr. Chamberlain, took immediate steps in secret to raise an expeditionary force of 100,000, "heavily armed and equipped," this being the largest force which British and French experts figured could be transported across Norway and Sweden in time to reach Finland in early May. As soon as Germany got wind of this, the Nazis began to threaten the Norwegians, Swedes and Finns, said Mr. Chamberlain. The Allies asked the Finns to decide by March 5 if they wanted the expeditionary force. The Finns asked if 50,000 troops could be sent to arrive by April...