ACTION TAKEN BY U.S.

Southland Times, Issue 23991, 5 December 1939, Page 7

ACTION TAKEN BY U.S.

Public In America Not Satisfied

PRESIDENT TALKS WITH MR HULL

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright)

(Received December 4, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 3. The Washington correspondent of The New York Times says it is felt that Americans are not satisfied with the steps already taken against Russia. It is understood that the' President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull)_ discussed the apparent trend of sentiment and again agreed that a hasty decision was inadvisable.

The correspondent adds that pressure has been increasing for official action, concretely expressing the United States’s disapproval. Finland has replied to Mr Roosevelt’s Note, stating that she will not bomb civilians if her opponents do not. Russia did not reply. While M. Vaino Tanner, the former Finnish Minister of Finance at Helsinki issued a statement to the nation, “We are fighting for the defence of all western culture. I think we should have not only the sympathy but the effective help of the rest of the world,” the Secretary-General of the League of Nations (M. Joseph Avenol) at Geneva summoned the League Council to sit at noon on December 9 and asked Mr Eamonn de Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, to summon the Assembly, of which he is president, for December 11. Finland’s appeal to the League, which is signed by M. Rudolf Holsti, the delegate and a former Foreign Minister, outlined Russian-Finnish relations since 1920. He concluded: “I request you to ask the Council of the Assembly to take necessary measures to terminate this aggression.” A delicate situation will be avoided as M. Ivan Maisky’s presidency of the council terminates automatically when the council meets. A Belgian will succeed him. The Moscow correspondent' of the British United Press says that the establishment of the puppet government at Terjoki unmistakably revealed the Soviet war aims. If M. Kussinen succeeds in obtaining control of Finland with the aid of the Red Army, he will establish a regime similar to that in Outer Mongolia, which politically and economically is linked with the Soviet. The Stockholm correspondent of The Times says that M. Eljas Erkko, the former Finnish Foreign Minister, has been appointed Charge d’Affaires at Stockholm. The steamer Donau departed from Helsinki with 700 Germans, 40 members of thq Russian Embassy, 150 Italians and 100 Estonians. The American colony is going to Sweden tomorrow. GERMAN ENVOY IN ISTANBUL LONDON, December 4. The Istanbul correspondent of The Times says that Baron von Lersner has arrived from Germany in the hope of promoting German-Turkish social, cultural and economic relations.