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...Herbert Hoover, now the newsreeling chum & consort of sports columnists, stage stars, debutantes, had amassed $2,500,000 in hard U. S. cash for Finnish relief. With unselfish enthusiasm he reported that twelve other groups were in the field, collecting with equal avidity. Mr. Hoover made a dramatically sudden appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (his first before a Congressional Committee since he was Secretary of Commerce), said 7,000,000 Poles need aid-about $50,000,000 worth...
...Miss Isabella Comeron gave the Finnish Legation in Washington a $2,000 diamond bracelet. Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé issued an immediate appeal for bicycles. New York's fiery, hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told 1,200 lunchers thatcivilization was on the side of Finland and Finland was on the side...
From Franklin Roosevelt in the Caribbean flashed a go-ahead wire to Jesse Jones. Finnish Industrialist W'illiam Wahlforss sailed for home well satisfied. Connecticut's Representative William Miller said the bill was a "safe step, short...
...what the American Congress has done. So do the people of Finland. The U. S. Government has backed up its expressions of moral support with material aid to Finland. . . . Whether America likes it or not, she has become involved in the worldwide struggle for the preservation of democracy. . .. The Finnish loan makes a precedent that cannot possibly be erased and marks a milestone in America's course of alleged isolation...
...letter acknowledging "with the thanks of the Republic of Finland your very generous offer of services to aid in out fight against the unprovoked assault of Communistic Russia," Per Zilliacus, military attache of the Finnish Legation, told Parker that only skillful technicians could be used...