Word: finlandized
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...What licked Finland at this point was the fear that her land would be the battlefield of the world's war. Such a tragedy would have devastated it more than a complete Russian victory...
...Time fights on the side of the Nazis now that peace has been established between Finland and Russia," Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, stated when asked what effect the peace would have on Germany...
...Finland's demise can be used by Hitler to show other neutral countrys what happens to those who listen to appeals from London and Paris. Furthermore the Nazis can now use the peace in Russia to strengthen economic relations with that country, he said...
Hardly has the fate of Finland been settled according to customary jungle-law than the European capitals are busy passing the buck. Helsinki blames Stockholm, Paris, and London; London blames Stockholm; Stockholm, London. Finland is fettered; the Allies have lost face; and a rare opportunity to strike Germany on her open flank is gone. Aggression scores another triumph; and the democracies smart under a defeat they feel might have been averted...
...Finland's government must have known the difficulties -- and the ultimate hopelessness -- of foreign intervention. Finland was not "forsaken," as her Foreign Minister now intones. Her geographical position was a natural stumbling-block to would-be helpers. She had no reason to assume last November that aid would come earlier. She must have realized that the Finnish people would have to carry the fight alone for many months. Yet Finland rejected all proposals "injurious to her national integrity," and chose to fight. She brought destruction upon herself for the sake of an ideal, in a war which she could...