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SOVIET SETS UP RED REGIME ON FINNISH BORDER (12/2/39)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz
| 12/2/39
| G.E.R. Gedye
Posted on 12/02/2009 5:21:14 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword realtime.)
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12/02/2009 5:21:54 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Cabinet Asks Aid 2-4
The International Situation 3
Fighting is Intense 5-7
200 Navicerts Asked as system Starts 6
Incidents in European Conflict 8
Finns are Fighting Russians in North 9
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12/02/2009 5:23:17 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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12/02/2009 6:59:53 AM PST
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CougarGA7
(My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
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Day 3 of the Winter War, December 2, 1939
The Ministry of Education urges all schools throughout the country to stop work, as the classrooms are needed to house refugees.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Finnish workers will take up arms to defend their country against attack
- The Soviet Union signs a mutual assistance pact with the Kuusinen 'Government'.
- The Social Democratic Party and the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) release a joint communiqué declaring that Finnish workers will take up arms to defend their country against attack.
- Petsamo: a Soviet regiment attacks the mine area.
- A counterattack by the Finnish Pennanen Detachment pushes the Russians back. Finnish losses: 13 dead, 38 wounded.
- Karelian Isthmus: confusion caused by rumours that the enemy has got behind the Finnish troops.
- The enemy reaches the Vammelsuu-Kivennapa-Rautu-Taipale line on the Isthmus.
- Ladoga Karelia: IV Army Corps, fighting under Major-General Heiskanen, issues the order for an offensive to retake the area around Suvilahti. The offensive runs out of steam by nightfall.
- In the evening some of the covering force are ordered to withdraw to the main defensive position.
- The Ministry of Education urges all schools throughout the country to stop work, as the classrooms are needed to house refugees.
- The Swedish Government decides that Sweden will not help defend Åland.Sweden will also not give any other direct support to Finland.
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12/02/2009 7:05:07 AM PST
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CougarGA7
(My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/dec39/f02dec39.htm
In Geneva... Finland appeals to the League of Nations to mediate in their quarrel with the Soviets.
In the Winter War... There are Soviet landings with naval support near Petsamo and other units of 14th Army are attacking overland nearby. Elsewhere the slow advance of the Soviet forces continues. The Finnish defenses have not yet been reached in most areas.
In Lausanne... In Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee announces the abandonment of the Helsinki Olympic Games, planned for 1940.
In Italy... Pro-Finnish demonstrations take place in Rome.
In the Vatican... The Pope condemns Soviet aggression.
On the Western Front... A French communique reports: “A quiet day on the whole front... the air forces, on both sides, were completely inactive.”
In Britain... Conscription is extended to all men between 19 and 41 years of age, with limited occupational deferments.
In the South Atlantic... The steamer Doric Star (Blue Star Line), homeward bound from New Zealand and Australia, is attacked and sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Meanwhile, off the coast of South Africa, the German liner Watussi is scuttled under shellfire from the battle cruiser HMS Renown.
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12/02/2009 5:02:27 PM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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"In the Vatican... The Pope condemns Soviet aggression." Not to over-belabor the point, but once again we see the Pope speaking forthrightly and plainly against evil. That is all well and good. It's what anyone would expect a pope to do -- including, as a recent article pointed out: decrying American infidelity and divorce. Let the Pope call it as he sees it!
So, did the Pope also plainly condemn German troops marching into the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland? Will he equally condemn the coming German invasions of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, the Balkans, North Africa, Baltic countries and the Soviet Union? Will he condemn German bombings of cities in Poland, Holland, Yugoslavia, Britain and Russia? Will he speak plainly against the Holocaust of Jews?
Or does the Pope apply a double standard when it comes to countries invading and brutally subjugating their neighbors?
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12/03/2009 7:37:50 AM PST
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
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