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Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...
...hours before Soviet bombers started laying the eggs of a new war in Finland (see p. 23), Joseph Stalin, cock of the Kremlin walk, last week crowed a loud denial of something firmly believed by most foreigners in Moscow, not to speak of some natives. Correspondent...
...dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
After these pro-Russian sentiments had appeared in print last week, Bill Spofford was irritated by the invasion of Finland. To protect Leningrad, Russia needed Baltic bases, and Finland might have handed them over quietly. Whether the C. L. I. D. (some 3,000 members) would take the same line when it meets in January, he did not know...
From the world's highest-placed ecclesiastical friend of Soviet Russia, white-thatched Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, nothing was heard last week about Finland. Two months ago he was still lolling in the club car behind the locomotive of history. Said the gaitered dean then: ". . . Communism has recovered the essential form ' of the real belief in God, which organized Christianity, as it is now, has so largely lost...