Word: helping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought for a moment that Russia would accede. If not, should Russia be expelled? Probability: censure of Russia's aggression, followed by Russian notice of withdrawal at the end of the customary two-year wait. Certainly no more than moral help would come to Finland through the League...
...Finland, it would be an invitation: 1) to Russia to move in on the north; 2) to Germany to move in on the south. There was always a chance, though slim, that Russia would be satisfied with Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial help Finland might hold Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden, meeting with Denmark's Peter...
Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...
...adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy, met in a lengthy night session, heard Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano expound for two hours and a half and finally conclude that "everything that may happen in the Danube Basin and the Balkans cannot help but directly interest Italy." The Soviet Government took the almost unprecedented step of squelching Communist International for its article. It was at about this point that Germany let a flight of 80 Italian airplanes cross her territory to Finland, sent a few herself, and otherwise began taking less fanciful measures toward...
Finland's Chances depended on what she was playing for. Failure to crack the Mannerheim Line had already hurt Russia's prestige. (In twelve days Germany had taken every major Polish city but Warsaw and Lwow.) Effective help from Italy, Great Britain and especially Sweden (which was most threatened by her traditional enemy's advance) might enable the Finns to hold off the Russians for many months, and in many months many things could happen. One thing that happened this week was a U. S. credit of $10,000,000 to Finland. But if no further military...