Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity." He requested an immediate reply from both countries. At his press conference the President went further, read in a grave, strained voice: "The news of the Soviet naval and military bombings within Finnish territory has come as a profound shock to the Government and people of the United States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered, one Power has chosen to resort to force of arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland...
...appearances indicated that now that Finland's lakes were frozen solid enough to support Army movements, Dictator Joseph Stalin meant to have a Finnish war-unless he was playing a gigantic game of bluff to the very end. Whether bluffing or not, the Finns took no chances. They closed most of the channels leading into the port of Helsinki preparatory to mining, and the little Army on the Karelian Isthmus braced itself against an increasingly probable attack...
...bear that walks like a cobra has shocked the world by sinking its fangs into Finland's neck. Americans are sickened by grotesque Soviet talk of Finnish war mongering and border incidents. There is a real danger that they will be so shocked and so sickened that they will mistakenly take out their ice on the hides of Russia's defenders in this country...
...cannot save Finland. Specifically, we cannot save Finland by wiping up the floor with Russia's American apologists, the Communists. Already, however, the witch-hunt is in full swing, with that eminent Finnish patriot, Martin Dies, leading the pack. American radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...