Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and...
Last week all this U. S.-Finnish amity spectacularly came home to roost when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, having turned a deaf ear to pleas that he intervene for peace between Germany and the Allies, and having let Russia invade Poland and hog-tie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania without protest...
Mobilization & Mannerheim. Finnish President Kyösti Kallio and Premier Aimo Cajander took hard-headed measures of preparation for actual war with the Soviet Union, should it be forced upon them, while at the same time behaving with utmost politeness to Joseph Stalin, showing complete readiness to cooperate in friendship...
Meanwhile, Finland's efficient Army-every Finnish male receives more than two years' military training beginning at 21 and remains in the Reserve or the Territorial Army up to his 52nd year-was brought up to a strength of 300,000 last week. Its Commander in Chief, Lieut...
"Modern neutrality is active neutrality," declared Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko in Helsinki. "If a neutral cannot defend itself against threats then it no longer is neutral and independent. . . . I am convinced that the Russian Government does not want anything to happen any more than we do."