Word: finnishness
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...part provocation. Russia must "refrain from participating in the war between the big European powers." In fact, Comrade Molotov was all for peace -on Germany's terms and with Russia keeping her slice of Poland. On the other hand he charged the Allies with trying to use the Finnish war as "a starting point for war against the U. S. S. R." and paid special respects to ex-fellow travelers in France and Britain, "all those Attlees and Blums ... all those lackeys of capital who have sold themselves body and soul to the warmongers...
...Finnish war put Mussolini's hand on many a pressure valve. He made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press...
...agricultural, the Balkans depend in turn on Germany for industrial goods. Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under the strategic hegemony of the totalitarian powers...
...Conte di Savoia's gangplank touched a Manhattan pier, a man in black darted aboard. Confused, he peered in vain through the crowd for the person he expected. "Here she is!" chorused the crowd. Blushing, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar Procope rushed to greet his fiancee, Margaret Katherine Mary Shaw of York, England (TIME, March 25). They were married two days later in Fairfax...
...Finnophiles surged into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to watch Runner Maki compete against a hand-picked trio of U. S. distance runners, track experts were not so sure that the Finn was unbeatable. In five previous appearances in a nationwide tour for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund, he had looked like an average U. S. trackman. Twice (in two-mile races) he had been defeated: once at Kansas City by Wisconsin's ginger-haired Walter Mehl, once at Ann Arbor by Michigan's Ralph Schwarzkopf...