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...Finland, the League thus did more than was ever done for Greece (in the Corfu dispute), China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that at least some nations would send supplies. France let it be known that she could send some old artillery. Britain thought she could spare a few more planes...
...Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms." He warned Britain and France that "real peace" will be impossible to get if they insist on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland regaining their independence. Nor will Italy, declared Ciano, attempt to create a Balkan Bloc. In a slap at the Allied blockade control he concluded: "Italy continues to follow the conflict, ready to contribute to world peace, but also to defend her shipping and her air lines...
...three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen their pavilions at the World's Fair, as well as Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
When the League met in Geneva last week it was unlikely that, having failed to do anything effective to help Manchuria, Ethiopia* or Spain and not having even discussed the disappearance of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland,† it could check anything at this late date. But a novel project was nevertheless afoot. With Argentina as their spokesman, the six South American nations still remaining in the League (Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador) demanded that the Soviet Union be expelled and threatened to resign unless the League kicked the Communists...
...came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March and which the Nazis once thought of using for a jump-off into the Russian Ukraine. All this indicated that when Comrade Stalin finished with the "northern cousins" he may very well turn toward the Finns' southern relatives and put in a small claim...