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...action which the Council now contemplates was revealed by comments from authoritative quarters after the conferees dispersed. This horizon now stretches all the way from the Arctic Ocean around through the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Gulf of Persia. In Paris, wise talk was about swiftly increasing aid for Finland (see p. 24). In London it was reported that M. Daladier had proposed breaking off relations with Russia, but that Mr. Chamberlain restrained him, preferring to let Russia take that initiative. The Manchester Guardian reported: "The Allies are moving toward intervention in the Finnish...
Last week, the 23rd of World War II and the eleventh of its elaboration in Finland, a gigantic slushy stalemate persisted on the Western Front; a third contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England and the first Australian and New Zealand divisions landed at Suez; desultory sea sniping was continued by Germany on Allied and neutral shipping (see col. 3); and in Paris, the Allied Supreme War Council held its fifth full-dress meeting...
Well she might. For if any outline of the Allied Supreme War Council's spring strategy could be drawn last week, it was this: to continue holding Germany in a vise by land and sea; to help Finland resist Russia in the north; to make that resistance stronger, and at the same time tighten the vise-grip on Germany, by "formidably" threatening Russia on the southeast...
Grizzled, schoolmasterish Sir Walter McLennan Citrine, head of a British Labor Party mission to Finland, returned to London last week and immediately called a press conference. "If the Finns can get delivery in the next two months on aircraft now earmarked for them by foreign countries," said he, "it is quite in the cards for them to become masters...
This was cheering news for friends of Finland, who read each day of savage Russian attacks on five fronts (see col. 3), but Sir Walter's if was big. Although British, French, Italian, Swedish and U. S. planes have been fighting in Finland, they have not been enough to prevent the Russians from bombing Finnish cities almost at will. Military experts estimate that it will take only 500 planes to give the Finns equality in the air, and about 250 had been allotted by the Allies up to last week-although not all of these had been delivered. Whether...