Word: schoenfeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conferred with U.S. Minister to Finland H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, back in Washington to report on the state of that unhappy little nation...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that U.S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld would "probably" return to Helsinki (he came home recently to report, presumably on shenanigans like the reported toast of Finnish Government leaders to the successful Jap attack on Pearl Harbor). But the indications that the U.S. intended to continue its formal relations with the Finns did not mean that the Allies would or could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would...
Meanwhile, in fine clear weather the Russians unloosed their greatest aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf...