Word: finnishness
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...last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...
...point by point, Cordell Hull composed a statement of how the U.S. official position had been forced to change. By continuing its present war against Russia, after regaining the territory it lost in 1939-40, Finland was thwarting the U.S. policy of aid to nations attacked by Hitler. The Finnish policy of fighting beside the Nazis would bring the war closer to the U.S.; for Finland it could end only in complete subjugation to Hitler. Therefore, unless Finland stopped its war against Russia, it could no longer count on U.S. friendship...
When he concluded. Cordell Hull looked like a man who had been forced to spank his son. Newsmen recalled the 1939 day when handsome Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé had been cheered to the rafters by a group of hard-boiled Washington reporters; the day President Roosevelt had read his moving statement assuring Finland of "the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States...
...Russians were counterattacking. To make it worse, some of the Luftwaffe on the Moscow front had been withdrawn, partly to support a drive down from Finnish positions to close the last lines of supply into Leningrad. Much Air Force weight had apparently been shifted south, in preparation for a great new effort to take Rostov...
...general, Klimenti Voroshilov, and a not-so-good one, Semion Budenny. Last week Marshal Voroshilov reached Russia's auxiliary capital at Samara to organize his great new Army. And as he traveled east to the rear, he passed trainload after planeload of special winter troops, trained since the Finnish war in cold-weather war fare. There were said to be 750,000 of them, of which some 200,000 were reported to have arrived at Moscow...