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Stalin is not the Man of the Year. Instead, TIME should have published the picture of a private Finnish soldier on snowshoes or skis, with a bayoneted rifle in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Proposed to Congress immediate non-partisan action on whatever Finnish relief measures they think best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Check-Up | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Stories about the Russo-Finnish war reached a new high for naïvete. The wildest tales, as usual, came from Copenhagen, where almost any rumor floating around Scandinavia is rushed into print, but other capitals put out their share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stories | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Finnish scouts picked up a length of telephone wire, reeled it in, found two Russians trying to wind it in the other direction, captured the Russians, made them carry the wire back to the Finnish lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stories | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...others better substantiated, led headquarters of the Leningrad Military Area, which in general has not lied about the war except to say that nothing was happening, to issue a blistering self-righteous attack on the foreign press ("especially the French and primarily the Havas Agency") for its accounts of Finnish successes. Its points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stories | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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