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!; WASHINGTON, December 31. ■ The assistant Senate Republican -leader, Senatcjr Warren Austin, is iirging an amendment to the Neutraliiy, Act to exempt "republics such a;s Finland which are victims of ah aggressor." It has 'become clear (he added) that an ideological idea is involved. That;' was not the case when the "Neutrality Act was.,ponsidered. He states that he Heartily favours lending Finland SO.OOO.tiOO dollars, the sum which the republic is reported to be seeking for munitions.
"The United States is on the deieu"siye in the present situation," Senator Austin says; "It is!as great a danger to "have Russia coming across Finland towards us as to have Germany come across. France;" ; .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 1, 2 January 1940, Page 7
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