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...Altmark fracas in Norwegian waters were not enough excitement, added to it last week was the incident of Pajala, a Swedish town of 3,000 six miles from the Finnish border, 100 miles North of the Gulf of Bothnia. One morning seven bombers flew over Pajala, dropping 134 explosive and incendiary bombs. Six buildings were burned, telephone lines were cut, 43 big bomb holes were made in Pajala's streets. Miraculously, no one was killed, only two slightly wounded...
Undergraduates will be given an opportunity to contribute to the Finnish relief fund, according to plans announced yesterday by Guilliaem Aertsen, chairman of the Harvard Committee on Finnish Relief. Boxes will be placed in all the House dining rooms besides the Freshman Union starting today...
...addition, boxes will be found in Harvard and Sever Halls this morning, Friday, and Saturday mornings, attended by Arthur O. Smith '40 and William J. Shallow '40. Contributions, which will be received during mealtimes until Saturday evening, will be turned over to the Red Cross for the relief of Finnish soldiers and families...
...Welles, on an observation tour of war-torn Europe for President Roosevelt, departed for Berlin at 12.10 A.M. today for conversations with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adolf Hitler which the Italian press believed may have a strong hearing on the future course of the Russo-Finnish conflict and the war between the Allies and Germany...
...carefully ignores the Finnish question, except to say that America should avoid it. There is no support of Russia's invasion, no condemnation of Finnish "attacks." All the emphasis in this manifesto is upon the dangers of American involvement, the very real imminence of an anti-Soviet crusade. Even though this emphasis may in this case spring from a blind attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity...