Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland—at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked by the U.S.
Just what brought on the rebuke, the State Department did not say. But it was the latest in a long series of indications that the U.S. Government was fed up with...
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