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After a four-and-a-half hour meeting Their Excellencies agreed to urge mediation of the Finnish-Russian War by somebody, decided to "encourage" peace negotiations between the Allies and Germany. Moreover, in the future, they said, their three countries will...
...more so when an investigating commission examined some duds and found them of Russian make. Swedish "activists" immediately redoubled their demands that the country jump into the war on Finland's side regardless of consequences. All over Scandinavia young men rushed in greater numbers than ever to Finnish volunteer recruiting stations. It was a question of touch-&-go whether popular demand would not force the Swedish Government into openly helping Finland...
...refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish Civil...
...hear the rumble of distant artillery. He could see long trains loaded with men and supplies departing for the front, returning trains unloading their wounded. In spite of an absence of blackouts and air-raid alarms, Leningrad was a city at war - the only city in Russia where the Finnish war seemed real. For that war is not so much Russia's war as it is Leningrad's. Although Russia's army comes from as far south as the Caucasus and its material from the banks of the Volga, the direction of the campaign is entirely under...
Under the shells and bombs that crashed into Viipuri last week Finnish men and women worked day & night. Brawny peasant women toiled side by side with boys and old men, burrowing trenches, throwing up breastworks, putting together makeshift pillboxes. Beneath the high-pitched scream of shells in air and the sharp thunder of their explosions sounded the dull bass background music of the battle south of the city. Day by day it came nearer...