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Gottlieb offered the resolution as an amendment to the statement of principles which he convention adopted, containing no mention of the Russian-Finnish conflict although it condemned Germany, the Allies, and Japan. He was acting on instructions from the local chapter, which passed a motion censuring Russia after a hot debate last month...
...remarked that the two main reasons that the right or wrong of Rus sia's action was not included in the A. S. U.'s platform were 1) fear that a statement raising a moral issue over the Finnish war would be used by those seeking to involve the United States, and 2) taking a stand where there was so much disagreement would tend to split the Union...
...have to get at the foundation of a thing to be effective," he said, giving his reasons for choosing Lenin as the focus of his attack on Communism. In his view of the Finnish War. "Russia is a big boulder coming down on a pebble; but the pebble was able to slip aside, and now it is dynamiting the houlder...
...Russia failed to do anything important with its superior navy. Swedish dispatches claimed the Finns had scored a direct hit on the Ortizabrskaya-Revolutia (October Revolution) when it tried to shell Koivisto. On Lake Laatokka the Finnish submarine Saukko continued to harass troop transports...
While Russia floundered, Finland, as a result of the League of Nations' sanctioning help, grew stronger. A Finnish delegation in Washington got the U. S. Navy to release 40 fast Brewster pursuit planes ordered for the Navy, placed orders for ammunition and machine guns. In Paris, after a meeting of the Supreme Allied War Council, Premier Daladier announced that France had already given Finland assistance "that is not mediocre"-presumably weapons. Sweden sent her neighbor 37 airplanes and released from military service 10,000 men, who promptly "volunteered" to help the Finns. With Great Britain and Italy also unofficial...