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...civilization haunted the minds of civilized men. In the U. S. Senate Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas was speaking just before a proposal to aid Finland was placed before the most powerful legislative body in the world. It was cold blustery in Washington that day -considerably warmer than in Helsinki and a number of Senators stayed home. The aged Senator, tireless foe of his hatred of it whetted by his 37 years Congress, was in great form. Representative of a State that has twice population, more oil than Russia, no for Communists, and a magnificent of struggle against odds...
Meanwhile, in fine clear weather the Russians unloosed their greatest aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf...
Next day the bombers came back and altogether southern Finland got three raids in a week. Helsinki's citizens, who do not scare easily, amused themselves during one alarm by potting one another with snowballs. During another they watched a Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...
Some Italian "units" (whose strength-probably trifling-was kept a military secret) reached Helsinki. Prince Aage of Denmark, who once fought with the French Foreign Legion, volunteered, as did his brother-in-law, Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma. Two other volunteers were Prince Ferdinand Andreas of Liechtenstein and Sweden's tennis champion, Karl Schroder. Aland Island Novelist Sally Salminen (Katrina) returned to Helsinki from abroad and offered her services to the Finnish Government...
Correct. But how did these cities get back to Finnish names? After the conclusion of World War I, the spirit of nationalism, inspired by Wilson's famed Fourteen points, became rampant. The ancient Finnish names were restored. Helsingfors became Helsinki. Viborg became Wipuri and so on down the list...