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Show Scandinavia Fears Germlainy There were 100,000 French and British soldiers ready to sail for the relief of Finland long before the Finns signed the enforced pe" terms, declares the British PiCTSe Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Chamber-lain. Why were the" troops withheld? Because, says Mo Chamberlain, the fear of Germany in Scandir. avia is so great that not only were Norwegians and Swedes Efraid to grant permission for the I assage of troops, under the League of Nations, but the Finns were afraid even to ask for them iest Germany attack from the rear as the Russian attacked Poland Po-land in the last stages of the German campaign. The hard-headed will ask, "Why didn't the British and French send troops without waiting wait-ing for a Finnish request and regardless re-gardless of permission from Norway Nor-way and Sweden?" This would have been foolish. Such an exepi-tion exepi-tion would have had dangerous work to do, without having to contend with fighting their way V-through hostile neutral nations, which have probably had the assistance as-sistance of German soldiers. |