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Starting on Christmas Eve, Finland's gulf seaport of Viipuri, ten miles behind the Mannerheim Line, was treated to a demonstration more melodramatic than lethal: long-range shelling by a battery of Russian "Little Berthas" about 25 miles away. Duds proved the guns to be 8-inchers, firing presumably at a main railroad supply line to the Mannerheim positions, but hitting the city and its suburbs indiscriminately. One shell knocked a top corner off evacuated Viipuri's one hotel, the Knut Posse*, in which numerous foreign correspondents were huddled...
...Finnish woman named Lotta Svärd went to war along with her husband, and, after he was killed, stayed with the Army, cooking for the soldiers and nursing the wounded. What made Lotta a two-time Molly Pitcher was the fact that in 1808, when Russia overran Finland, she volunteered again and served throughout...
...Finland organized a women's auxiliary corps and named it for Lotta Svärd. Finland's tough and brawny Lottas, 100,000 strong, not only nurse and cook. In wartime they take the places of the mobilized Civic Guardists in fire and police departments. They staff the hun dreds of air and naval observation posts, keep sharp watch for raids...
...more important than these exchanges, Sweden promised: 1) to use all her maritime imports for home consumption (except such as may be forwarded to Finland); 2) not to import more strategic raw materials (like copper and nickel) than she did before the war; 3) not to use more than specified amounts of for eign raw materials in manufactures for export (such as telephones). In return for these promises, Britain promised to expedite clearance of Swedish ships through Allied control ports, and offered naval convoy to Swedish trade ships (each Swedish owner to decide this point for himself...
Last week, as it met at the University of Wisconsin, the Union knew that its resolutions would label it more clearly than any Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded...