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Last week the continued story of Sumner Welles's mission to Europe was no match for dramatic, high-pressure, Russian-Finnish peace moves in the Baltic (see p. 19). Only the U. S. State Department knew how deeply the U. S. was involved in those moves; officially the U. S. had neither asked nor been asked to mediate. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early, defining the attitude of President Roosevelt: "He didn't close any door, but he didn't open any door either...
...Steinhardt opened the door of the U. S. Embassy a little-enough to let citizens see, within its secrecy-shrouded interior, that he had conferred long with Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov just as peace moves got under way in earnest, that he had held an unpublicized reception for the Finnish negotiators when they arrived-all giving rise to a report that the negotiations had been held on the conveniently neutral ground of the U. S. Embassy...
...hope the Americans don't think that Finland no longer needs their help. The country is devastated and needs assistance more than over," stated Jaakko Mikkola, varsity track coach, interviewed yesterday on his reactions to the Russo-Finnish peace...
...difficulties -- and the ultimate hopelessness -- of foreign intervention. Finland was not "forsaken," as her Foreign Minister now intones. Her geographical position was a natural stumbling-block to would-be helpers. She had no reason to assume last November that aid would come earlier. She must have realized that the Finnish people would have to carry the fight alone for many months. Yet Finland rejected all proposals "injurious to her national integrity," and chose to fight. She brought destruction upon herself for the sake of an ideal, in a war which she could not possibly...
Replying to the petition sent to President Roosevelt ten days ago supporting his Finnish-Russian stand, Miss Margaret LeHand, secretary to the President, wrote, "the President appreciates the friendly spirit which prompted these expressions...