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Wednesday there was a fresh epidemic of Finnish "attacks." The Finnish high command ordered troops withdrawn a half mile from the border to make impossible such reports. The Cabinet met early and at noon Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko telegraphed to Baron Yrjo-Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo...
...note Foreign Minister Erkko proposed that the Finnish-Russian dispute be submitted to "neutral arbitration." Meanwhile, Minister Erkko said, Finland offered to withdraw its forces to "such a distance from Leningrad that it could not even be alleged that they threaten its security." It was too late. The Kremlin had decided, and at midnight, preceded by the playing of martial music and by Red Army songs, Premier Molotov took to the radio, the same radio that had just been calling Finns "dirty dogs, clowns and bastards...
...clear, Comrade Molotov said, where the "attitude of the present Finnish Government lies." The Government of Finland "doesn't wish to maintain normal relations with the Soviet Union. It continues in its hostile attitude. . . . From such a Government and from its thoughtless military clique we can expect only fresh insolent provocations." For this reason, the U.S.S.R. had given order to the Army "to be ready for any surprise and immediately check possible fresh sallies...
Late that night the Finnish Parliament met. Particular Finnish targets of Soviet abuse had been Premier Aimo Cajander...
...Russo-Finnish negotiations at Moscow, and who can match most Soviet bigshots in proletarian experience. He once worked as a miner in the U. S. The Soviets were not so happy about Minister Tanner; the Soviet radio quickly called him one of the "madmen of Helsinki...