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Last week the great Jean Sibelius, 76-year-old Finnish composer, appealed to the U.S. people not to deny Finland their sympathy, since Finland had to make a hard and bitter choice. Said...
...volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian Nazis, in Finland, said the Nazis. Vichy broke off relations with Russia. Sweden granted Germany the right to transport troops from Norway to Finland...
...north, the Finnish Front was at first relatively quiet. The tired Finns, though they mobilized, had no stomach for more war. But Germany had for some time been gathering a big troop pool in Norway. This moved up over the top into Finland, maybe directly into Russia...
...Despite reports that Finnish troops were marching with the Germans, that Russian planes had bombed Finnish shipping, Finland declared that she was not at war. A split in the Finnish Cabinet on the war question was rumored...
...what was only a three day drive, and which, because the Student Council refused permission, was not from door to door. Several had the notion that the money might be used for non-relief purposes. Many students, and their families have been contributing all year long to French, Finnish, Greck, as well as British relief drives, and at the year's end, their accounts, already sagging, were further depleted by the House dances. Though most of the committee feel that the Crimson is correct in assailing Harvard's miserliness, I believe every penny helps, and urge every Harvard...