ALLIED DISCUSSIONS
INTERVENTION. IN FINLAND
AN AMERICAN REPORT
NEW YORK, March 14.
The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times," says that the French, according to reports, had one Polish and one French division ready to depart for Finland at a moment's notice. /-It was proposed at a conference in Paris which Mr. Chamberlain attended that Britain should supply a Canadian division. The French urged that these troops, with full equipment, should be sent to Finland through Sweden if possible, otherwise that the British convoy the expedition to northern Finland or Russia in order to create a diversion.
Mr. Chamberlain, it is stated, asked for several days to ponder the matter. After consultations in London, he informed the French that he was opposed to such direct intervention, and it was thereupon agreed to encourage British and French volunteers to aid Finland, and also to send additional planes and military supplies to Finland as rapidly as possible. Meanwhile the French continued to hold' their division in readiness.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 13
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