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Until the artillery and the bombs proved he was not fooling, most foreign diplomats in Moscow thought that Joseph Stalin's last wish was an ever so tiny war. They believed until the last minute that Comrade Stalin was merely trying a "war of nerves" on the Finns. So sure was U.S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt that there would not be war that he was caught off-base in Sweden, rushed back by special plane to Moscow where he had plenty to do expressing the U. S. Government's ideas...
Well aware that in the past few years their independence largely depended on the Germans protecting them from the Russians, and vice versa, when the Soviet Union began to attack the Finns last week they took it calmly. President Kyosti Kallio proclaimed a "state of siege." Foreign Minister Erkko observed: "Once and for all, I wish to say in all solemnity that Finland has not wanted war, has no desire to be a threat to anyone and has no desire to become the instrument of a third power." Then they got on with...
Early this week Finland made the last desperate gesture of a hard-pressed Government. It appealed to the League of Nations to intercede. Professing bewilderment, Soviet Russia informed the League of Nations that she regarded Finland's appeal as "unfounded," declaring that she was maintaining "peaceful relations" with the "People's Government" of Finland...
...Break? Outside Russia last week only the German press gave even lip service to the proposition that J. Stalin & Co. were justified in cracking down on Finland. In private conversations German officers gloomed that if the Red Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power...
Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...