Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia.
Finland had made a hard choice. It was not unprecedented in a war in which nations choose sides out of national interest rather than because of old friendships. The U.S. would probably continue to...
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