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...have five cousins here and we have quite a gay time together. We hear the day's news on the radio, a very good radio it is too, and we keep each other glad, for "we are not to be fed on sadness" [part of a Finnish song]. First we listen to the evening prayers and later on we even dance...
...eight months old) of Finnish descent tore the cover of TIME [picturing Joseph Stalin] in half as soon as the mail was brought into the house. I am wondering if this is the so-called Finnish sisu...
...Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly became a ghost town). Last week in Moscow, Idaho, seat of the State University, proposals for a new name included: 1) Borah, 2) Tat-Kin-Mah, 3) Paradise, 4) Cow. Meantime Mayor Henry Hansen sent off $176.46 for Finnish Relief, wrote that Moscow citizens wanted Finns to know that not all Muscovites were against them...
...face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise money for Finnish ambulances. "I may go to Holland and Belgium on tour," she croaked, "and I may go to America-there I think I might help...
...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...