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Passionate U. S. debate over a loan to Finland (TIME, March 11) obscured what was in many ways a bigger U. S. financial and political transaction-the $20,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan last week to China...
Admiral Pratt expressed doubt whether England could have done much in the way of giving Finland naval aid "unless Britain entered the Baltic and controlled it. If it were not for German and Russian air power, this could have been done. But as air strength stands today, the move would have been hazardous...
...further complications in the war situation if Russia had defeated Finland. "Scandinavia alone could not have staved off Russia," he asserted. "The invasion of Scandinavia by Russia would almost certainy have brought Allied intervention regardless of what stand Germany took...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today denounced the peace terms which Russia imposed on Finland and reaffirmed his belief that small, independent nations should be made safe from conquest by their more powerful neighbors...
...industry--and smile quietly, bless it, and retire to his home in the village of Concord. His faith was a pure, white flame, and then and ever since it has had a great appeal to youth. But today, in this world of "Grapes of Wrath," Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Finland, its light is nearly winking out. What is there left...