Word: finnishness
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...country, in addition to being generous and sympathetic toward Finland, is also tenderhearted and wants to make sure that none of this money will be used in such a way as might cause injury or discomfiture to a Russian aviator flying over the working-class section of a Finnish town. ... I always try to explain this point of view without making my countrymen look like a bunch of sentimental whacks...
...behind the lines, in central Finland, Russian planes dropped men by parachute. These men were Karelians and Finnish Communists who had fled to Russia after the Communist Party was outlawed in 1930. Last week they were back to plague the country, spying out the Army's movements, cutting communications, trying to spread dissatisfaction among the Finns, who sometimes mistook them for loyal brethren. Police rounded up many of these spies, warned the populace to beware of them, but how many were still at large at week's end no one knew...
Finland, like the Scandinavian nations, is mostly Lutheran. Lately Archbishop Erkki Kaila, head of beleaguered Finland's National Church, sent a stout S O S to Christendom: "In the name of the Finnish Christendom, I ... dare to turn to you to ask for spiritual and material support for my people and its Church now exposed to persecution. . . . We have full confidence that the Christian Churches will not leave us to fight out this struggle alone. God have mercy...
Last Sunday, U. S. Lutheran churches responded by asking their 4,000,000 members for a tidy war-relief fund, $500,000, most of which is to be given to the Finnish Church.* Lutheran leaders assured prospective donors that they were not in any way duplicating the job of the Hoover Finnish Relief Fund (collected to date...
Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam bath...