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Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...
...choppy sea. But he got to like her, learned to refer to her as Rube and developed a heap of respect for the commanding officer, Lieut. Commander Heywood L. Edwards. That name Heywood did not mean a thing: it was better to call him Tex and pay heed to his calm voice: he was six feet two and used to be an Olympic wrestler...
...small but dangerous minority of industrial managers . . . [or] by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders who are a menace to the true cause of labor itself, as well as to the nation as a whole." Whether or not John Lewis would eventually give heed to his President's solemn, angry words, he had already done what few men of this generation or any other had ever done: flatly, bitterly, defiantly ignored three requests made by a President of the U.S. in the name of public necessity...
Though professional historians pay no heed to such tales, Alley and his cohorts can point to some circumstantial facts: Lincoln was moody and silent when questioned about his birth; his own word is the sole authority for his accepted birth date, Feb. 12, 1809; because it acknowledged but did not deny rumors of bastardy, the first edition of Herndon's biography was suppressed...
...understand that our young people are going to speak this Sunday to all of you American young people. I entreat you to heed their voice and not snub them. We, the Russians, are human beings like others and in this struggle not the least in courage, patriotism, lofty idealism and love of mankind...