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Show xWe Are All Finns' r a vniTea nmana an and child civilisation per net with us. Must Have Assistance "How is it possible for the rest ! the civilized western world to i so stupid as not to help usT must have assistance lm edtately. "We are not begging favors to ive ourselves. We are demand-g demand-g that England and America ive themselves or perish as In-rttably In-rttably as we must if we art t helped by them. "We know preparations are be-I be-I made to aid us, but we fear ley will be too late for us and le rest of the world. "I speak plainly in saying that io United States should not ' raid responsibility and should ist us in preventing a defeat hlch may eventually be fully I disastrous to them as to us. appreciate fully the American -union for neutrality, but Amer-ans Amer-ans do not realise that the ao-blishment ao-blishment of a power from the ' hlne .to the Pacific and from le arctic to the Mediterranean ould spell the end of their great orld power aa certainly as It ould spell the death ef this naU country." Nation Is Catted This was foreign Minister . Tanner, leader of the social mocrata and engineer of the ipproohement between the pro-tariat pro-tariat and the army. ' Discuss-g Discuss-g the hard-won achievement of lining permission for the rad- . al workers to enter the army d militia, he called It "another lomueealmi victory" referring i the failure of the Russians to it across Finland's nairoweat irt and cut the republic in vo. "After 30 years of political rejudice and ancient grudges id suspicious Intolerance, we ive guaranteed unshakable lity of the nation," Tanner Id. "This is the most significant ep since the war for indepen-nce. indepen-nce. For many years we de-aired de-aired of reconciliation, because e extreme right identified mocracy and the labor move-ent move-ent with communism. Thank 9d! thst's finished now. The it trace of demarcation between d and white has vanished." We Ara All Finns' Frsnkly, Tanner said, he and e fascist leader. Lieutenant eneral Malmberg agreed that, vtiatever beliefs existed in the ist, and perhaps still persist, aire for unanimity In this . is Is predominates. Divergent ews must be subordinated. If it forgotten. We art all Finns." Completing the picture, I ques-Mied ques-Mied an old peasant woman, hose three sons are at the front, d one daughter was with a . otta," or women's volunteer or-inixation, or-inixation, on duty at a hostel. hos-tel. "What If the Russians de-end de-end V she said simply. "I have io cows, four pi as. and stores of ; Katoes and hay and grain. ! "I'll kill the animals and burn e rest." She paused raflee-; rely and added: "And maybe I can get in a shot ' two." wriTcr leiii OTory o - (Editor's Beta! t elty ef Fla- m Bust's pssple. frans high gevera- is meat leaders te prasaats aad factory workers, with widely diverges di-verges political tarlie aw . eeeperattag acaJaa Boasia, waa aemtaa4d forcibly te Cearte- u T TerrsM fat talks wttk the " great mat lawiy before the ta m meas carraspeadeat ssft Hal-ink! Hal-ink! to file his dispatohea from T Capenkaeea. Hew the sentry's " morale stands aa the "heme " Insf le shewn ha the foIUwtag arttele.) In By OOUBTENAT TERRETT til International News Service Staff U Correspondent , tn COPENHAGEN (INS) Here a are four vignettes giving a cross- ai section of Finland's domestic sit- w uatlon today. aa It Is morale, and the condition I of food supplies on the "home pi front" which will be of greater ic determining force in the repub- ta lie's eventual fate than the R army's grimmest efforts. And it til la significant that Finns of all w classes took across the Atlantic w with full understanding of Amer- w lea's neutrality, but still hoping sr for any assistance. In the small central Finnish town wtisrs I waa getting say first sleep in a bed after three days of traveling in day coaches, the telephone jangled peremptor- " lly at 2 a. m and the porter j announced that some callers were ,n ooming up to the room. Groaningly, I responded to the 10 brisk door knock and beheld ' four girls ranging In age from f 1 16 to 19, in ski pants and fur 10 coats. " Wanted to Tell Truth J They bowed politely and without with-out self-consdoutness. "Permit pi us to enter," they asked. "We at wish serious conversation." Then, hi shedding their coata and caps, ui they sat down snd same directly M to the point. Without preamble, a thin-faced 18-year-oid girl at started: k "You are the first foreign sp journalist ever to come here. We th are told that you can tell the d truth to many millions of Ameri- m cans. We know you were re G ceived tonight by the burgomas- lai ter, chief of police, members of ri parliament, and rich Industrialists and we are just factory workers. work-ers. But we, too, hsve something to tell the Americans." The girls refused proffered V clgareta with reluctance, but with the resolute reply that to- J bacco was for soldiers only. Then the four girls talked for more fT than two hours two of the most Intelligently Instructive hours I n have ever passed anywhere, and which probably could not be u duplicated anywhere. w All Ould Speak EngUak In addition to Finnish, Swedish g, snd Germsn, two spoke excellent pi English and the other two spoke ' It understandably. Two also spoke ac a little Ffench, aa whenever my tv questions were not understood, pc they were translated into three of four languages, and the rapid- eh fire cross-talk was resumed. ti" They had just finished a 14-hour 14-hour stint, but were not weary of and were eager to inform me regarding re-garding local conditions Snd opinions and to get the latest V outside news. "This town is known as the reddest In all Finland." said the eldest girl proudly, "but it Is Finnish red, not Russian red. My J" father was a radical labor leader " and he died in prison the week before I was born. My mother y' snd older sister work In the same t! Factory with me. My only brother, although he was sn active social democrat and therefore barred from the army, demanded the right to enlist, and now ia serving bi on the Karelian isthmus." e, She looked at the others In- ai quiringly, and when they nodded pi she continued: of This la Our Country w "We are Finnish Finns neither Fi Swedish nor Russian and this is our country. "Tell the American workers BI that, in spite of the long claaa m war here, the Finniah workers i will last' to the desth. Tell them we need not food and clothes, a( but guns and airplanes. The k country Is more Important than the workers' cause- that can J wait, but tht war can not." f This came from girls earning Id for a aevsa day week, and contributing one day's wages to charity . , . Three days later an old Finnish Fin-nish scientist with a world-wide name, now serving In a technical capacity, expressed a similar feeling, feel-ing, but in terms of a man of broad International background. . "Finland faces defeat that is undeniable," he aaid. "But if we go down before the Russian j hordes and if so we'll perish indomitably in-domitably to the last man, wo- I |