The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-03-21
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

In the presence Of the catastrophe
debacle for democracy in Finland:
everybody in Europe, Asia, and Amer
lea is sputtering. We get fine lot of
words!
General Mannerheim expresses the
only definite and final fact, when he
says that Finland has paid every debt
she owed the West, in full. But is
anybody handing out receipt in full !?
President Roosevelt says that the
people of Finland have won the "mor-
al right to live in everlasting peace
:" Then they have not gained an
inch: for they had that before the war
started in the Karelian isthmus.
We begin to observe that moral
rights amount to mighty little, unless
there are guns, and men to enforce the
claim which it is desired to translate
into a legal and factual right.
X x X
Then the President reiterates that
the Finnish people have again Sin
creased the respect and warm regard
in which they are held by the people
and the government" of the United
States of North America.
And what did that add up to, in
terms Of anything which would enable
the Finlanders to maintain their posi-
ton as one of the most decent little
democracies on earth?
Well, our Congressman got, behind
some words, spelled neutrality
peace, and out of the generosity of
Americas big heart and pocketbook,
they actually offered Finland $50 mil
lion on the express condition that it
must not be spent for anything to
fight with.
And Jesse Jones (banker-hotel man.
politicianTexas ranch MANI said he
would give it to them if he thought
they were going to win. Being bank
er, he probably thinks they are still
a good risk, with Russia having a
stranglehold on the Finnish waistline.
x X X
Soviet Russia wanted to "protect
Leningrad." Against what? Not
against any attack that has ever been
made by anybody since the time of
Swedish King Charles. What then?
Why, against the attack which Rus
sia might expect, when they start their
campaign against the Western democ-
racies in the interest of world boil
shevism.
This Finnish business is so clearly
a forecast Of Soviet intentions, that it
has escaped the attention of the Um-
brella Man; who sees nothing until
after it has happened.
Put this alongside the taking over
of the Latvian and Esthonian coast
lines, making a Russian lake of the
Baltic Sea, and even a Swiss admiral
can see the intentions of the Soviets.
They are getting an opening for their
new fleet, already begun to be built,
out onto the Atlantic and the West
ern Oceans.
Echoes from the first World War
and its aftermath were heard in
classic halls of Cambridge University,
England, awakened by the death of
Dr. Herman Kantorowitz, at the age
of so. He was a German historian,
holding a chair of jurisprudence and
criminal law at Kiel University up to
1888. He was subject to the anger
of the Nazis because of a statement
to the effect that the theory Of Ger
many's "encirclement" by the British
is a myth, and that this myth" was
fundamentally responsible for World
War |. His books on German war guilt
were suppressed and burned in Ger
many, and he came to New York
City, joining the faculty of the Uni
versity in Exile; and later was associ-
ated with Oxford and Cambridge.