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present native folklore, songs, dances). The Netherlands also pulled out (before Hitler invaded). Finland returned (with Finnish pancakes, photographs depicting the Russian rape). So did Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (with exhibits financed by their nationals in the U. S.). France, Great Britain altered some of their displays, turning them into restrained propaganda for U. S. sympathy. Belgium opened its impressive building on schedule. But Commissar General Joseph Gevaert postponed his speech, said he preferred to wait until fighting words are in order...
...proclaimed Russian good neighborship in the North, prepared to welcome cordially a three-man Swedish trade delegation (going to Moscow for new markets, raw materials to replace those lost in the West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland, seemed about to make the best of a none too good...
Joseph Stalin, as well as a lot of other people, learned much from the way the Red Army performed in Finland. Last week the Dictator, slow, methodical and unforgetting, began to apply his knowledge. Paramount lesson of the Finnish campaign was that the Communist system of attaching to each Red Army officer a political commissar with overriding authority is unpractical. It implies that the officer is not fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced...
...titles Bolsheviks have associated previously with Tsarist times. "The reform," said Pravda, "although belated, constitutes a link in the chain of measures strengthening discipline of the armed forces. . . . The titles of general and admiral reflect clearly that the [Army & Navy] commanders have full authority. . . . The results of the Finnish and Far Eastern campaigns established their authority among the Red Army and the masses of the Soviet people...
Despite the seeming optimism of his title, Sherwood provides no pick-me-up for audiences with headline hangovers. Through the Finnish gloom, Sherwood sees no light of imminent world salvation. He only argues, rather vaguely, that because glamor and heroics have at last gone out of war, men are that much closer to understanding war's horrors, and so ending them...