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For “ Finnish Independence 99 “These measures have not been taken, as has been alleged abroad, with a view to violating Finnish independence or annexing Finnish territory,” M. Molotoff declares. “This is a perfidious calumny. We have no such intentions. It has been alleged that our measures are directed against Finnish independence, and that they constitute an interference with Finnish domestic and foreign policy. This is also a malicicus calumny. We regard Finland as an independent and Sovereign State, whatever her regime may be. We consider that the Finnish people are entitled to decide themselves all matters of foreign and domestic policy in the way they deem necessary. The peoples of the Soviet Union have done what was necessary for the independence of Finland. Tile peoples of our country are prepared to assist the Finnish people in securing a free and independent development.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 6
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