Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "Pioneering" Nation have failed, so far, to extensively colonize and develop Alaska. Certainly the Finns are best adapted to such a work. A flourishing Alaska may some day play the same part for this continent that Finland is now playing for Scandinavia...
...wake gloom, mutual accusations, bitterness, savage resentment, failure, foreboding, recrimination, renewed hostility, new fears and new preparations, new hatreds and new defiances. It was a week of democratic frustration in which Finland blamed Sweden for not permitting Allied aid , Sweden accused Britain and France of wanting to make Scandinavia a battleground, the French blamed the British for not pressing aid to Finland, the British blamed the Swedes, the small nations of Europe accused the Allies of too nice an observance of neutral rights, Dorothy Thompson blamed the U. S. Senate, the Senators blamed Europe, and wrangling, dissension, bickering and looking...
...ready to go to Finland's aid-an announcement too late to be of any military use and obviously intended merely as a talking point for the Finnish peace commissioners, then in Moscow. It also did its bit to shift the onus for Allied delay on to Scandinavia. "Our help in men," he said, "depends on Finland's appeal. . . . Why have we not received this appeal? It is because the Governments of Norway and Sweden have taken the position that they will oppose the passage of Allied troops across their territory...
...Scandinavia. When the first peace rumors ran from house to house in Stockholm, Swedish families and societies planned festivities. The Swedish Government was delighted to escape from its squeeze between the upper millstone of threatened Allied intervention and the nether-threat of German reprisal for permitting it. Norway and Denmark were likewise relieved. The Copenhagen Politiken, splashing the first news on yellow handbills which were joyfully snatched by gasping passersby, commented: "Happiness will be felt all over the North that the final outcome of suspense was a message of peace...
This week Foreign Minister Günther delivered Sweden's best defense against the charges made by Premier Daladier that Scandinavia had blocked Allied help. "I want to emphasize," said he, "that the idea of coming to the help of Finland had opened vistas to the Allied powers that particularly appealed to the French. The deadlock on the Western Front was not popular, and the newspapers in France spoke of the. hunt for new battlefields. Moreover, the removal of the war to Scandinavia would have given an opportunity to cut off the iron-ore exports to Germany. ... It suffices...