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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...
...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...
...Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were chiefly to blame, said Republican Bricker. Lest anybody think he was still dark-horsing around for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination, he added: "In 1940, I'll be a candidate for Governor of Ohio-absolutely...
Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...
...Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross was the beginning of an entirely different crusade, a fantastically crooked diplomatic square dance with everybody suddenly changing partners...