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...first large shipment of medical supplies from the American Red Cross reached Helsinki (ten ambulances, 123,496 dressings, 2,000 sheets, operating gowns, tents, drugs, clothing), the New York Evening Post's ambulating Columnist W. L. ("Young Bill") White took occasion to explain to his fellow Americans what the Finns think of them. Wrote...
...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
...HELSINKI--The Finnish high command tonight announced that the stonewall defenses of the Mannerheim Line are hurling back Red Army blows at four points on Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland in the fiercest fighting...
Mannerheim drove a hard bargain. The two principles that had caused him to quit the previous May were accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...
...retired General Abel Clement-Grandcourt of the French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...