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...regular President (Speaker), popular Edouard Herriot. Once the Soviet Union's most potent friend in France, Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...
There isn't any question of endangering our neutrality by the $60,000,000 loan to Finland, proposed in the Hook Bill now before Congress, according to Payson S. Wild, associate professor of Government and authority on international...
...maintenance of Finland is important because it will keep Russia from spreading. Scandinavia may come next, and loaning money to the Finns now may save us from having to give drastic aid to them later...
Wild pointed out that legally there is no problem at all. Russia and Finland have not declared war on each other, and we can send them any goods we wish...
...loan now will not involve us through establishing a dangerous precedent," he said, "because if another crisis arises and there is pressure brought to bear on us to make a loan to some other country, we can point to Finland's good record as a prompt payer of debts and as a nation friendly...