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...Finland that is Europe's advanced guard against Asia, right up Sweden's borders. We have refused her aid. We are content to spend money and to allow a number of volunteers to cross our border...
...hour of distress. She failed her historic obligations and failed her own future.' " Even more outspoken was a pamphlet written and published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than the suppression of Finland. . . ." A Russia with an Atlantic seacoast, and thus a potential sea power, is something for almost everybody to think about-including Germany...
Unless altered by public pressure, of which there is plenty, Premier Hansson's and the King's decision to play the neutral game to its logical and perhaps tragic end seemed to mean taps for independent Finland. Norway was much too agitated about the Nazi-British battle over the Alt-mark last week (see p. 34) to think much about Finland. Denmark has no army to speak...
...From the first day I told the Finnish Government that it was impossible for Sweden openly to participate in military intervention in behalf of Finland," read His Majesty's address. "I am sure today that we must maintain this policy ... I feel sure that active military intervention for Finland would mean not only war against Russia but immediate involvement in a great war with other powers...
...discovered, he told the Chamber of Deputies last week, that out of every 100 lines of foreign news printed by these papers 31 lines have been about Germany, 22 about Britain, 18 about Russia & Finland, seven about Italy, six about Japan & China and five about France...