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...Three hundred Finnish-American volunteers reached Finland from Sweden, crossing the Haparanda-Tornea bridge which, a few days earlier, a Communist had been caught trying to mine...
...Stockholm reported that three ships loaded with German material for Russia were on their way to Finland. Berlin hotly denied that Germany was helping Russia...
...Altogether, about 8,000 volunteers have already joined up with the Finns, according to Sir Walter Citrine. Of these, about 5,500 are Swedes, 1,000 Norwegians, 600 Danes, and the rest Frenchmen, Dutch men, Belgians, Poles, Americans, a few Estonians who crossed the Gulf of Finland in fishing boats under the nose of the Russian fleet...
...Finland (see p. 69) Sir Walter was sharply critical. He said the U. S. was lagging far behind other nations in quantity of material, in the speed with which it is being delivered. Furthermore, said he, Russia has been getting U. S. gasoline and gunpowder (see p. 17). To prove it he produced a cartridge which had been part of some captured Russian material, said it was filled with Du Pont powder...
...They know we sympathize with them . . . and they are grateful about this and also very mad and bewildered by it as well. We are buying them medical supplies, food and clothing. . . . Now it just happens that there is plenty of food in Finland and enough warm clothes and an ample supply of aspirin, and while of course it would be nice to have more, the Finns just now are thinking about other things. ... I have to explain that my country, in addition to being generous and sympathetic toward Finland, is also tenderhearted and wants to make sure that none...