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...hope that you write to us soon, even a card. With best regards from Finland...
Ever since the Russian invasion of Finland began, citizens of Moscow, Idaho (pop. 5,500) have been restive about their town's name. When the Indians used to go to this fertile valley at the foot of the Thatuna Hills to gather camas roots, they called the place Tat-Kin-Mah, which means the land of the spotted deer. First white settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were...
Wilhelm has always hated & feared the Slavs * who got him into World War I, and Russia's invasion of Finland and push to the west in general have cleared up any doubts he might have had as to who his enemies are in this war. There was no better person to whom to state his position than his old friend Poultney Bigelow of Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y., who used to romp with him in a German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended...
...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
HELSINKI--The Finnish high command tonight announced that the stonewall defenses of the Mannerheim Line are hurling back Red Army blows at four points on Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland in the fiercest fighting...