Word: finnishness
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This letter was written by a Finnish soldier to his sister. We were just wondering why the soldier would ask his sister for a gun if there were two dead soldiers with automatic pistols...
...Finland, which is liable to enhance the sufferings of war and even to bias the morale of the best educated and disciplined army. I presume that an appeal to your readers might get the attention of some oil refiners who might be in a position to provide the brave Finnish army with that much needed material...
...vast impatience of many U. S. citizens, the bumbling House last week thus took up the problem of Finnish aid, in exactly the same manner and tempo in which the bumbling Senate had passed it, 49-27. The bumbling House Banking & Currency Committee began hearings. As in the Senate, no one seemed to feel that civilization (in the shape of Finland) was approaching the zero-hour. Representatives, who are told almost daily by lobbyists, constituents and each other that civilization is imperiled unless such-&-such a bill passes, went on yawning, grooming their noses, reading the comics. Their equanimity drove...
...people of Sweden believe this, even if their new peace-at-any-price Government does not. Last week, with the Red Army at the gates of Viipuri (see p. 30), the biggest question in Scandinavia was no longer who would win the Russo-Finnish war but who was next on Joe Stalin's list. And yet, the Swedish people might not yet know how thoroughly their Government had given collective security in the North the miss-in-balk. Socialist Deputy Flyg, long vociferously antiCommunist, s pilled the beans in his Stockholm newspaper Folkets Dagblad and thereby forced the Government...
...Tanner, whose part in the pre-war Finnish-Russian negotiations at the Kremlin made him the pet hate of Moscow, forthrightly asked Premier Hansson for two divisions of the Swedish Army. Otherwise, he warned, Finland would be forced either to sue for a peace with Russia "in a manner greatly concerning Sweden" (i.e., give up the Aland Islands which would point Russian guns squarely at Sweden's head), or appeal for direct aid from France and Britain...