Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland was worried last week lest reports of her recent annihilation of two Russian divisions lead other nations to think she needed no help. But help on a small scale became more concrete each day. The French Government announced that not only was it shipping material to the Finns but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France - in Spain's case, shipping Russian material that had been captured in the Civil War. (This was promptly denied in Madrid.) Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat to Finland, that country...
...Davis reported a couple of sinkings, all the home-water problems involved in the Navy's proposed new five-year ship building program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point up Grace Line's sales talk: the contrasting security of Western Hemisphere waters. Lest listeners forget, Announcer Larry Elliott takes over for about two minutes of each program to tell of the bright, balmy, beckoning Caribbean, plug Grace Line's bargain offer...
...offer France in exchange for such plums? This was naturally kept a close secret by both parties, since it can only relate to Italian moves favorable to the Allies, and therefore displeasing to the Nazis and Russians. Italian public and official opinion follows the Church in its fear lest either Naziism or Communism or both be carried violently into the Balkans or Near East in the next few months. This the Allies must try to stop, and II Duce is resolved to trade on the "nuisance value" of the Italian Navy and Air Force...