Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review the historians of the future will devote many a chapter to analysis ot of the short lived but terribly destructive tive russo finnish war so far a as the world of the immediate present in concerned its consequences appear to be ominous and far preaching reaching finland has been reduced ito to virtual dependence upon soviet I 1 russia she has been forced to cede to the her second largest city her major industrial area important fortifications and she has consented to the construction of a russian owned railway which when completed will p practically bisect what territory she has ae left ft she is faced with a tremendously difficult task in seeking to find new homes and work for those of her people who are leaving the oreas orcas given to the bear that walks like A man alan it is understandable that the late lae speeches of finnish statesmen have been by intimation at least bitter in tone when england and france lave have been mentioned in enair england a considerable revolt has arisen against the government on the part of britons who fe feel 01 blat immediate and am effective aid should hould have feen sent nt the linns 1 inns lay opinion in this country largely bocks that point of view or on th other hand so souls of the amz ml 11 ary experts are not so certain tily feel that the allies would have fac ed an almost insoluble problem of transport and supply had they attempted to send finland enough troops and equipment to turn the tide it is believed certain that germany with her geog geographical graphical raph ical advantage would have been there first and that the allied adventure might have ended in unmitigated disaster however theres no use discussing what might have been and the big question of the moment is who won the russo finnish war it is obvious that russia won a considerable e r able victory territorially speaking she is back in the same commanding position she held in the days of peter the great not so obvious but perhaps more important is the apparent fact that germany also won a great victory it is well known that german pressure was largely responsible for ending the war As major george fielding elliot writes the terms of the peace treaty mean closing the northern flank to allied efforts assuring the swedish iron supplies releasing russia from an awkward position reinforcing thereby the german russian situa situation n in the balkins and the black rea all ot this is of utmost aid to the nazis who look to a peaceful russia as a source of vital supplies to feed hit lers war machine and who ire ambitious to extend their prestige influence and power in central and northern europe curiously enough there s one school which thinks that the settlement of the finnish war on term favorable to the dictators may improve the chances for peace their reasoning runs thus britain and france seeing that matters are not going so well as hoped may relax their peace terms germanys germanas Germ anys undernourished der population is eager for peace therefore the stage may be set sei for negotiations which will really get results on top of that the known pressure of mr roose velt mussolini and the pope in favor of peace may prove a powerful 1 factor in banishing wars from europe however recent english polls show that the people of the isles are overwhelmingly opposed to a negotiated peace at this time one fact is highly significant the great and incredibly bloody act ion on that was scheduled to start early in march when europe thawed has pot not transpired german planes fly over london and british and french planes fly over arli arlin n but none drops a bomb |