http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/dec39/f31dec39.htm
Finns driving Soviets back across border
Sunday, December 31, 1939 www.onwar.com
In the Winter War... Finnish offensives against the Soviet 8th and 9th Armies continue. The Finns claim to have pushed the Red Army back across the frontier on the Soumussalmi-Kemijarvi front. Soviet aircraft bomb Viipuri and other towns.
In Geneva... Britain and France inform the League of Nations that they will give all possible assistance to Finland.
In Germany... Hitler makes a New Year proclamation: “We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish-capitalistic world will not survive the twentieth century.” He looks forward to the creation of a new Europe under German leadership, a Europe liberated from “British tyranny.” Meanwhile, in an Order of the Day to the armed forces, Hitler notes that, in the effort to create a new order in Europe, “the hardest struggle for the existence or non-existence of the German people lies before us.”
In Britain... Police New Year revelers, in London, shining torches in the blackout.
In Turkey... Floods and further earthquakes push the death toll up to 30,000.
Never ever trust a Finn and don’t believe 1/10th of what the newspapers were writing about WW2 back then - hindsight proves you make an ass out of yourself on either of these two points.
“capitalistic world will not survive the twentieth century”
Some measure of truth there.