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Lest the Swedes make a mistake about their position, Tass, official Russian news agency, issued a belated announcement which said...
Scandinavia. In Moscow the official news agency Tass released a ten-day-old exchange of notes between Russia, Sweden and Norway. It brought out clearly how close Scandinavia had been, and still was, to war. Russia demanded that Sweden stop sending volunteers and war materials to Finland. It added that the Swedish press "carried on an impermissible campaign" against the Soviet Union which could be explained only "if Sweden were in a state of war with the U.S.S.R. or was preparing for war." To Norway, Russia was even more threatening, declaring that "actions of the Norwegian authorities . . . may lead...
Sweden's and Norway's replies, said Tass last week, were "unsatisfactory." Norway replied that Russia's complaints were based on inaccurate information. Sweden was tougher: "The Swedish people cherish ardent sympathy for Finland. . . . In the opinion of the Swedish Government neither its position as regards the press nor its actions in any other demand provides the Soviet Union with a pretext for accusations against Sweden...
Even the Hungarians, who are thinking about a new military alliance with Italy, got the wind up. After all, Hungary now has a common frontier with Soviet Russia and Italy is far away. In Moscow, according to the official Soviet news agency Tass, Hungarian Minister Dr. Joseph Kristoffy called on Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin and formally denied "tendentious rumors" that the recent Italian-Hungarian talks in Venice were "directed against the Soviet Union." Since these "rumors" had originated in Hungarian official circles in Buda pest, the incident showed that Hungary too was frightened by the crisis...
...Moscow, Tass, official Soviet news agency, not only reported (from Scandinavian sources) the arrival of the Italian planes in Finland, but stated that they had even landed to refuel in their flight across Germany. Furthermore, said Tass, it had heard that Germany herself was forwarding planes, munitions and even gasoline to Finland. To this Germany issued a cagey denial...