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...finally, after eight weeks of stalling, the Congress shoved through a bill authorizing a $100,000,000 increase in the depleted capital of the Export-Import Bank-on the clear understanding that Federal Lender Jesse Jones would immediately "lend" Finland...
...numb were 1939's Isolationists. As Franklin Roosevelt, home from his 15-day cruise, penned his signature to the measure, only Columnist David Lawrence spoke the longer, less-fashionable view: "Nobody is deceived. . . . The Russian Government knows what the American Congress has done. So do the people of Finland. The U. S. Government has backed up its expressions of moral support with material aid to Finland. . . . Whether America likes it or not, she has become involved in the worldwide struggle for the preservation of democracy. . .. The Finnish loan makes a precedent that cannot possibly be erased and marks...
...casualties from what fighting had already taken place in the war's first half year-leaving out Germany v. Poland and Russia v. Finland-stood about as follows...
...station, in the heart of the city, the weary Finns still held out. They have no hope of holding the city long. Viipuri was condemned when the Finns abandoned Koivisto Fortress, blowing up their heaviest artillery and leaving the Russians a clear road across the frozen Gulf of Finland to outflank the city (TIME, March 4). Last week the Russians took this road. Another force drove past Viipuri to the northeast. And along what was left of three railroads the main body of the Red Army converged on its goal. The capital of Karelia, which was a Russian city from...
...would also thaw out their frozen northern army, bring better bombing weather. As if to give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale-the Russian air force last week made a clean sweep of the south of Finland, sparing only Helsinki, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in Hamina, Kotka, Hanko, Turku, Lahti, Riihimaki, Kouvola, Tampere, Porvoo, Karjaa...