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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mobilization & Mannerheim. Finnish President Kyösti Kallio and Premier Aimo Cajander took hard-headed measures of preparation for actual war with the Soviet Union, should it be forced upon them, while at the same time behaving with utmost politeness to Joseph Stalin, showing complete readiness to cooperate in friendship with Russia if the Bolsheviks want to be sincerely friendly...
...every Finnish male receives more than two years' military training beginning at 21 and remains in the Reserve or the Territorial Army up to his 52nd year-was brought up to a strength of 300,000 last week. Its Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
...week many Communist deputies and other prominent French Communists (plus many obscure ones) had been arrested, indicted or were being hunted. The most prominent ones were still in hiding, however. French Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez, sent to the front with an engineer regiment, got a 24-hour furlough, took French leave and made a separate peace. Colorful Andre Marty, who once led a French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice, could not be found. Also under indictment...
...When the priests saw the power of the Polish landowners coming to an end," declared Bezbozknik, "they banded together with the landowners and gendarmes and took weapons into their hands...