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...Unhappy Bull" Sirs: Congratulations on your excellent picture of the fighting in Finland in your issue of Jan. 8. But I cannot read of this war in the wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people...
Afraid of "becoming a tool of the Communist Party," Miss Muriel Gravell '40, of Radcliffe, resigned as president of the Radcliffe chapter of the American Student Union, widening the rift in the A. S. U. over its stand on the Russian invasion of Finland, it was learned last night...
...line from the Murmansk railroad, upon which the 44th division depended for supplies, and then surrounded it. In the battle, the Finns claimed to have taken 1,000 prisoners. They believed that they had definitely killed for the winter's duration any chance that Russian forces might cut Finland...
...Petsamo and now Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
...announcements issued yesterday, the Executive Council of the Student Union urged all students in the University to take action in opposition to the Hook Bill for a $60,000,000 loan to Finland and to the proposed budget increases in military expenditures and "slashes" in "appropriations for human needs...