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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little surplus. A special session might vote to spend the surplus, and more too, in relief bills. "If [Bricker] sits tight now," observed Columnist Raymond Clapper, "he can clean up this year with a surplus of perhaps $5,000,000 and offer himself as an economical administrator who would make short work of extravagance at Washington...
...boats in two days, bringing the total which the Allies claim to have sunk in three months to 43, or more than half the number Germany is said to have had on hand when war began. Figuring replacements at two per week (Churchill's figure), this would make Germany's net loss up to this week...
Wednesday there was a fresh epidemic of Finnish "attacks." The Finnish high command ordered troops withdrawn a half mile from the border to make impossible such reports. The Cabinet met early and at noon Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko telegraphed to Baron Yrjo-Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo...
Foreign Minister Erkko and Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti. New Foreign Minister was V. A. Tanner, who took part in the recent...
...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...