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Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that U.S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld would "probably" return to Helsinki (he came home recently to report, presumably on shenanigans like the reported toast of Finnish Government leaders to the successful Jap attack on Pearl Harbor). But the indications that the U.S. intended to continue its formal relations with the Finns did not mean that the Allies would or could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would...
Field Marshal Mannerheim reportedly had asked the American Legation in Helsinki to find out whether his well-known hatred of the Soviet Union would be a bar to a negotiated peace. To this feeler, the Russians apparently were as cold as Russian winter...
...Helsinki: Marshal Mannerheim, whom the Allied High Command had today recognized as ruler of Finland, was interviewed by our correspondent. "I am a great believer in Democracy," the Marshal said, "but I have hundreds of thousands of dossiers* to go through yet, and you must remember that Rome was not built...
Finnish Kalevala. When tourists came to the land of 1,000 lakes, the co-op restaurants in Helsinki served stuffed cabbage, onions and great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
...council seats (a gain of 16). The real victors of the elections had been the Farmers, who gained 36 seats and now held 212. Prime Minister Hansson's safe Social Democrats still held 831 seats-an absolute majority. Even the anything-but-pro-Bolshevik Helsinki radio called Communist gains in Sweden "moderate and in no way surprising...