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...spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...
...official candidates were achieving what Pravda called "a brilliant victory"-on ballots on which there were no opposition candidates. On ships of the Baltic Fleet, said a Moscow broadcaster, harmonicas played ceaselessly as the crews eagerly voted "for the invincible Stalinist bloc." He told how airmen fresh from bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin's district was 100% for him. Concluded the announcer: "In the northernmost electoral unit of the Soviet Union, aboard the icebreaker Sedov -adrift...
Because his resolution condemning Russia's "aggression" in Finland was defeated by the American Student Union at its annual convention in Madison, Wisconsin, last week, Alan Gottlieb '41, President of the Harvard Student Union, will work for a general referendum on the question, he said yesterday...
...Harvard amendment, defeated 322-49, was as follows: "While the American Student Union has no sympathy for the Russian attack on Finland and specifically condemns it as a clear act of aggression, nevertheless it does not want to see out neutrality prejudiced by those acts we consider to be unneutral...
While Russia floundered, Finland, as a result of the League of Nations' sanctioning help, grew stronger. A Finnish delegation in Washington got the U. S. Navy to release 40 fast Brewster pursuit planes ordered for the Navy, placed orders for ammunition and machine guns. In Paris, after a meeting of the Supreme Allied War Council, Premier Daladier announced that France had already given Finland assistance "that is not mediocre"-presumably weapons. Sweden sent her neighbor 37 airplanes and released from military service 10,000 men, who promptly "volunteered" to help the Finns. With Great Britain and Italy also unofficial...