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Arriving in Bergen, Norway, by ship, but accompanied by an airplane and mechanic, Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle" of Harlem, announced that he had come to fight for Finland but, since the Finnish war had been concluded 24 days before, would offer his services if Finland was again attacked...
Professor Hart also foresees trouble in Russia as indicated by the Finnish war. "The fact that Finland has withstood Russia for such a long time indicated that any section of Russia might be able to arise in revolt and get away with it for some time...
Captain John F. Hasey of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps will lecture on the Finnish War tonight at 8:30 in the Eliot House Junior Common Room following a dinner given in his honor by Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House...
...Finnish war evidently made Robert Sherwood a very angry man, and fortunately, a thoughtful one, too. "There Shall Be No Night" is the impressive result of his anger and his thought, plus a little slicking up in the best Broadway fashion. But even if the famous Lunt-Fontanne color is the ingredient that makes the show a hit, the play is still a remarkable job of dramatizing that explosive feeling most people get when they read about Finland...
...great Finnish scientist, Kaarlo Valkonen, played by Alfred Lunt, can see his home broken up in the war, his son killed, and his country going down in defeat, and still say that the booming of the guns is the death rattle, not of civilization, but of the forces of evil. He is a brain specialist, and he sees that the ultimate defenses of civilization are not the pill-boxes of the Mannerheim and Maginot Lines, but the tissues of the human brain, and he thinks they are still in good order, even though they are taking a terrific battering...