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...invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon, or long sustain, secret agreements to be disclosed like...
...Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board upped the already high price of liquor 50%, and was immediately charged by its akvavit and vodka-loving populace with war profiteering...
...Finland halted preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled to be held at Helsingfors next summer, pondered their cancelation-just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it for granted that the 1940 Winter Olympics were off. They had been awarded to Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Japan had chucked them, along with the summer Olympics, because of the "incident" in China...
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...
...northern neutrals last week hastened to do two things: 1) declare their neutrality: 2) prepare for the worst. Full mobilization was ordered in The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark, partial mobilization in Norway and Sweden. Luxembourg, which has no army, increased its gendarmerie and customs guards. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, which drafted a neutrality convention last year, proclaimed their rules of neutrality. Belligerent warships were prohibited from staying more than 24 hours in their ports, or provisioning there, and the ports were closed to war prizes...