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HELSINKI--The Finnish high command tonight announced that the stonewall defenses of the Mannerheim Line are hurling back Red Army blows at four points on Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland in the fiercest fighting...
Retreat from its position on the Finnish question would be unthinkable. The Student Union has long stood for morality in international relations. That stand is perhaps an anachronism, but so long as it is maintained, it must be applied to every aggressor, not merely to certain of them. The H.S.U. has recognized this; the A.S.U. has yet to do so. On the other hand, secession is equally unwise; it would be at once the first step in the disintegration of the national organization, and a death-blow to the local chapter. As President Gottlieb declared, "there is no need...
Mannerheim drove a hard bargain. The two principles that had caused him to quit the previous May were accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...
...French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...
...Washington went 27-year-old Prince Bertil of Sweden at the head of a trade delegation seeking agreements to increase imports from the U. S. Asked what Sweden was going to do about the Russo-Finnish war, he said: "I am not a politician," promptly proved that he was by adding: "I do not know how far Sweden will go in support of Finland, but we are . . . deeply interested in what is going...