DESIRE TO AID FINLAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21576, 12 February 1940, Page 7

DESIRE TO AID FINLAND

Soviet’s Cowardly

Attack

Pointed Remarks By President United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 11. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 10. President Roosevelt, addressing the American Youth Congress, said Russia had a dictatorship as absolute as any other in the world. United States sympathy was 98 per cent, with Finland. The United States desired to aid Finland. He ridiculed suggestions that Russia might declare war on the United States in consequence of this, and described his own early interest in the Russian experiments in a hope that they might lead to the betterment of the nation. President Roosevelt added: “That hope to-day is either shattered or put into storage against a better ay. Russia is allied with another dictatorship and invaded a neighbour so infinitesimally small that it could not injure the Soviet." The President's remarks were particularly pointed since the organisation is filled with controversy concerning its refusal to denounce the Russian invasion of Finland and charges that the council is Communistically influenced.

Debating the Finnish Aid Bill, Senator Danaher, a Republican, said: “Tire United States neutrality patrol is the eyes of Britain in American waters," says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” He made the charge that the Columbus passed along one group of United States destroyers after another until it was virtually delivered into the hands of the British. The voting on the Bill will take place on Tuesday. It is certain of passage.