Show Finland Reduced to Virtual Dependence i Upon Soviet Russia The historians of the future will devote many a chapter to analysis of the short-lived destructive Russo-Finnish So far as the world of the immediate present is its consequences appear to be ominous and Finland has been reduced to virtual dependence upon Soviet She has been forced to cede to the U. S. S. R. her sec ond largest her major industrial important and she has consented to the construction of a Russian owned railway when will bisect what territory she has She is faced with a tremendously difficult task in seeking to find new homes and work tor those of her people who are leaving the areas given to Bear That Walks Like a Should Scat Finland It is understandable that the late speeches of Finnish statesmen have by intimation at i bitter in tone when England and I France have been In England a considerable revolt has arisen against Chamberlain on the part of Britons who feel that immediate and effective aid should have been sen I the Lay opinion in thia country largely backs that point of On the other some of the military experts are not so certain they feel that the Allies would have faced an almost in problem of transport and supply had they attempted to send Finland enough troops and equip ment to turn the It is believed certain that with her geographical would have been there and that the Allied adventure might have ende in unmitigated there's no use In discussing what might have And the big question of the moment who won the Russo-Finnish It is that Russia won a considerable victory territorially she is back in the same commanding position she held in the days of Peter the Not so but perhaps more is the apparent fact that Germany also won a great It is well known that German pressure was largely responsible for ending the As Major George Fielding Eliot the terms of the peace treaty mean the northern flank to Allied assuring the Swedish iron releasing Russia from an awkward reinforcing thereby the German-Russia situation in the Balkans and the Block All of this is of the utmost aid to who look to a peaceful Russia as a source of vital supplies to feed Hitler's war and who arc ambitious to extend influence and power in Central and Northern Chances For Improved Curiously there Is one school which thinks that the set of the Finnish war on terms favorable to the dictators improve the chances for reasoning runs Britain and seeing that matters are not going so well as may relax their peace Germany's undernourished population is eager for peace the stage may be set for negotiations which will really get On top of the j known pressure of Mussolini and the Pope in favor of peace may prove a powerful in banishing Mars from recent English polls show that the people of the Isles are overwhelmingly opposed to a negotiated peace at this One fact is highly The great and incredibly bloody action that was scheduled to start early in March when Europe has not German planes fly over London and British and French planes fly over Berlin but none drops a Neither side seems willing to take the initiative in unleashing the dogs of war in full And the observers is a |