DEFENCE OF FINLAND
RAPID-COMPREHENSIVE SIR W. CITRINE'S VIEW PROMISE REITERATED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Seed. 2.20 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 4. The 'British Labour Party delegates who are returning from their visit to Finland to-day attended a meeting at Copenhagen of representatives of labour movements in the northern countries. Sir Walter Citrine, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said that he saw no signs of tiredness, hopelessness or of collapse m Finland. He was returning convinced that the Finns could hold out, and not merely for the winter. But naturally, quick and comprehensive outside help was essential for their own resources were limited. Everyone capable of bearing arms had been called to the colours. Fin-, land needed foreign volunteer workers as well as soldiers and doators. He repeated the assurance he gave the Finns before he left Helsinki that England would do her utmost to help w ithin the structure of the League of Nations resolution.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20164, 6 February 1940, Page 11
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