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Even more significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...
...Finland the present war with Russia is a private war, only incidentally connected with Hitler's conquests. Speaking over the radio last week, Finland's Speaker of Parliament Väinö P. Hakkila stated Finland's uncomplicated war aims, showed clearly why Finland went...
...according to Hakkila, is an eastern boundary that would be easier to defend. By occupying Karelia (ceded to Russia in 1920) to the east, Finland's land boundary with Russia from the White Sea to the Gulf of Finland would be conveniently short, broken up by the big lakes Onega and Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east...
...second Finnish war aim is just as simple. Russia must pay for the damage of her 1939 attack on Finland. Hakkila had even decided how she would pay. Said he: "As it is certain that the present Moscow Government cannot pay compensation, full indemnity must be taken in kind...
Early this week Speaker Väinö Hakkila of the Finnish Diet broadcast a stirring plea for aid in which he declared that "We believe the civilized world . . . will not leave us to fight alone against an enemy more numerous than ourselves." But if Scandinavia went to the aid of Finland, it would be an invitation: 1) to Russia to move in on the north; 2) to Germany to move in on the south. There was always a chance, though slim, that Russia would be satisfied with Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial...
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