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...hope the Americans don't think that Finland no longer needs their help. The country is devastated and needs assistance more than over," stated Jaakko Mikkola, varsity track coach, interviewed yesterday on his reactions to the Russo-Finnish peace...
...women of means and leisure are by now well mobilized to express their war sympathies, chiefly for the Allies, in tangible ways. Apart from help for Finland, which, being financial for the most part, is run by men, and the nationwide weekly bandage-rolling, diaper-hemming sessions of local Red Cross chapters, there are more than a score of war-relief organizations, mostly headquartered in Manhattan. The time has come when no movie star, foreign or domestic, who knows her publicity onions fails to show her war knitting as well as her knees to the news-camera. Example: British Madeleine...
...dock hands had cheered the arrival of ships from the "Toilers' Fatherland," fraternized in waterfront dives with Soviet sailors. This reception of the Sakhaline was the warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader. To avert a bloody brawl King Carol's police had to rush to the waterfront, arrested several dock workers...
Last week Per Albin Hansson received tons of letters and telegrams. Some of them praised him to the skies. Some threatened unpleasant death. They were all about two declarations he recently made: the first said that Sweden would give Finland nothing more than unofficial aid; the second explained why-"Unanimity for intervention cannot be found in the Swedish people...
...legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet's muzhiks and rabotniks (peasants and workers) have so far given no hint that such an invitation might be forthcoming, Russia's war against Finland has given Whites all over the world new hope. In January tall, hawk-faced Boris Sergievsky, Russian aviator in World War I and now one of the best test pilots in the U. S., sounded the Whites' battle cry: "We who did not flee from Russia but only retreated...