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...German] good will." According to the noble Lord, Britain "in the years after Versailles [failed] to conciliate Germany," and Adolf Hitler has "aimed partly to make his country free and prosperous, but chiefly and mainly absolutely to free it from any danger in the future, and so every threat we made made him think aggression was necessary...
Central Front. Russia's most potent threat to Finland came, not from the isthmus, but from four columns which penetrated the 485-mile frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Circle, striking westward at Finnish railheads and roadheads, trying to reach the Gulf of Bothnia. Last fortnight one of these columns was reported to have captured Kemijärvi and to be bearing down on Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's Arctic Highway. Last week the Finns rushed troops north from the isthmus and in a surprise attack recaptured Salla, cutting this Russian column off from its base...
...keep the Red Navy out and Finland's supply lines open. Forty thousand more men were mobilized, bringing Sweden's armed forces to 150,000. The fortress of Boden, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, was reinforced with reserves. Here was the greatest Russian threat to Sweden, marked by the steady progress of a Russian column across Finland toward Tornio on the Swedish-Finnish frontier. Some 4,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish Army and several hundred of them last week managed to cross the frontier and join up. Even more important were the supplies rushed...
...French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat. It said...
While officially Bill Daughaday is not listed in the 165 pound class, it is still uncertain whether he or Hal Tine takes the mat tomorrow in this weight. Pete Illman, in perhaps the best trim he has been for a long while, looks like a real threat in the 165 pound class. Some hard workouts during the week have ironed out a few difficulties, and he can now be placed among the best wrestlers on the team. Tudor Gardiner is slated to grapple unlimited this week...