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Show the nations of the world has been lambasting Russia unmercifully for the Invasion of fin-land. fin-land. Secondly, the Ruaslan opposition to Scandinavian Scan-dinavian aid to Finland Is particularly funny In view of Russia's long record of aid to the Spanish loyalist regime. After alt It was Russia Rus-sia herself who pictured the Finnish conflict as a "civil war" by setting; up a rebel government govern-ment (by the way, what happened to It?), thereby placing Russia's aid to Spanish loyalists loyal-ists . and Swedish-Norwegian aid to Finnish "loyalists" In exactly the same category. Lastly, the big stick Russia Is trying to wave over Sweden and Norway Isn't anywhere near as big as It used to be. If Stalin would take a close look at It, he'd find that the spectacular success of the fighting Finns In holding back and even routing the vaunted red army has turned that stick Into a broken reed. There Is of course considerable danger that Russia In a desperate effort to recover lost prestige will force war on Sweden and Nor-' way. If that happens, the lid will be off In Europe. It might easily make Scandinavia and Finland the battleground of the European war. Although that would be a regrettable development devel-opment still If Russia Is determined to overrun over-run and dominate all Europe north of the Baltic Bal-tic which now seems to be her Intention, It -woold -probably be just as-well to- make tfa real scrap, with Britain, France and Germany In on It That way there would be some hope of eventually saving these threatened countries coun-tries and establishing new and more enduring endur-ing peace In Europe. - GRIM WARNING We hope every motorist read the little news Item from Aberdeen. Wash., the other day, telling of the death of an 11-year-old thy from carbon monoxide fumes. The lad was In the back seat of a car, with his parents par-ents In the front. It was cold and the car windows win-dows were tightly closed. As a result fumes from the exhaust piled up In the rear of the car and asphyxiated the boy . . . Don't let that happen hap-pen In YOUR family. 'Always keep a car window win-dow open at least a little way-to give air circulation. Russia Waves a Broken Reed COVTET Russia Is leveling her biggest verbal " guns on Sweden and Norway because of the two Scandinavian nations' aid to Finland and their newspapers' attacks on soviet Russia. If the ominous fact that such verbal barrages bar-rages are a typical prelude to attacks by the world's aggressor nations can be overlooked, the soviet blasts have their amusing side. In the first place. If Russia resents hostile press comments to the point where she wants to make something of It she's taken on a J rettjr large order for the press of most of |