FIRST LADY BALKS AT ADVISING YOUTH TO UPHOLD FINLAND (2/12/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 2/12/40 | Frank S. Adams, K.J. Eskelund, Thomas F. Hawkins, James Aldridge

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Finland – The Decisive Offensive, 1-21 February 1940
Evolution of Plan Yellow, October 1939-January 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

First Lady Balks at Advising Youth to Uphold Finland – 2—4
Shields and Flame Fail to Aid Soviet in Drive, Finns Say – 5
Finns’ Summa Line Found Unyielding – 6
U.S. Move for Peace in Finland is Denied – 6
$300,000 for Finns Raised by Industry – 6
U.S. Finns in War Led by ‘Tough’ New Yorker; Roosevelts’ Ex-Chauffeur Is Proud of Unit – 7
Nazis Said to Build Black Sea Forts – 8
Navy Building Cost at All-Time Peak – 9
Boy Seized as Jewel Robber and Slayer Of Companion Who Dared Him to Shoot – 9
Poland Day Here Observed by 2,000 – 11
British Expected to Buy U.S. Tobacco Again; Loss of Import Duty Is Felt, Hopkins Hears – 11
Icebreakers Convoy Coal into Denmark - 11

[iowamark]

"FIRST LADY BALKS AT ADVISING YOUTH TO UPHOLD FINLAND"

Eleanor was always Stalin's apologist, due to the influence of her Communist friends.

[La Lydia]

The group involved in this story, the American Youth Congress, was taken over by the Young Communists and Young Socialists several years before this article and consistently supported Stalin. If that horrible woman wasn’t some kind of communist dupe I will eat my red scarf. Note how she tries to have it both ways: heartfelt support for Finland — but refusal to condemn the Soviet invasion of Finland.

[C19fan]

Probably marrying that Commie Eleanor was FDR’s worse decision in his life. But I guess the Roosevelts were like European aristocrats and had to marry withing the family. Was Archibald Roosevelt from the Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt, side of the family?

[pyx]

Please CONTINUE posting these reminders of history. Thank you in advance.

[mick]

You are right about that. This is a further reminder how tainted the Democrats were and are with the poison of communism. I can see our present socialist-in-chief and his wife acting in the same way.....and in a way they are with the freedom movement in Iran....benign neglect and trying to have it both ways......

These are great Posts because it reminds us all that our ancestors weren’t the perfect lovers of freedom we may imagine...they did elect this man 4 times !!

[PzLdr]

“Following Eleanor Roosevelt in search of illogic is like following a lit fuse in search of an explosion. One never has to wait long” - James Burnham

[investigateworld]

Everyone on my Christmas list is getting a bottle of Finnish Vodka this year.

I remember in my (ill spent) youth, one could buy a Finnish 20 mm anti tank rifle for $99.00, cartridges were a buck each....

Alas, did I think to buy one?

:^(

[MinuteGal]

Eleanor Roosevelt STILL makes the lists of most admired women in modern American history because there's always commie women in this country who keep her torch lit in generation after generation.

To me, this busy-body red mole in the FDR White House should be better known as the patron saint of all the butt-ugly liberal women whose bitter, haggish faces pollute our political scene and TV screens today.

Leni

[CougarGA7]

One thing is for certain. While it is clear by the statements by FDR yesterday that he is giving responses that are political expedient, his wife has no such political savvy.

She is clearly a communist sympathizer, and unfortunately you know that she has influence in policy even if not publicly. It may partially explain some of the horrendous domestic policies put forth by FDR.

[henkster]

I’m pretty well convinced that Eleanor Roosevelt was a commie dyke and that those were her good points.

Putting my bomb-throwing aside for a minute, seriously, I believe she was about as close as one could be to being a “card-carrying” communist. Addressing the “Youth Congress” dominated by communists and socialists, and spouting the communist party line to them is pretty much all the proof you need.

But as the purpose of Homer’s postings is “the more things change the more they stay the same,” it’s pretty obvious that the current 1st lady is pretty much cut from the same ideological cloth, only with a racist bent.

[CougarGA7]

Day 75 of the Winter War, February 12, 1940

The Ministry of Supply announces new maximum prices for coffee: the maximum permitted retail price for roasted ersatz containing at least 25% coffee is 20 markkaa per kilo, with Rio blend at 34 markkaa, the Central American Santos blend 32 markkaa and Quality blend at 50 markkaa per kilo.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Fierce fighting continues in Summa

• Northern Finland: Colonel Dolin, commander of the enemy ski brigade bearing his name, is killed in a skirmish with a Finnish patrol in Kuhmo.

• Karelian Isthmus: the Red Army enlarges its breakthrough in the Lähde sector.

• The enemy fails to break through in other sectors of the front.

• The enemy continues to attack on the Muolaanjärvi-Punnusjärvi isthmuses.

• The Kirvesmäki stronghold in Taipale is lost and attempts to retake it prove unsuccessful.

• Heavy fighting continues in Summa.

• Referring to the aid Finland is expecting from the international community, Foreign Minister Väinö Tanner issues a statement in his own name via the Finnish News Agency in which he denies claims of attempts to broker a peace.

• Prime Minister Ryti and Minister without Portfolio J.K. Paasikivi describe Tanner's statement as ill-considered.

• While in Turku en route for a secret trip to Stockholm, Tanner receives details from Chargé d'Affaires Erkko of the Soviet Union's terms for peace.

• The Soviet terms are passed on to the Finnish Government.

• The Ministry of Supply announces new maximum prices for coffee: the maximum permitted retail price for roasted ersatz containing at least 25% coffee is 20 markkaa per kilo, with Rio blend at 34 markkaa, the Central American Santos blend 32 markkaa and Quality blend at 50 markkaa per kilo.

• Abroad: Karl J. Ewerts, the director of volunteer recruitment in Sweden, returns from a trip to the Karelian Isthmus and issues a statement to the press calling for weapons, men and vehicles to be sent to Finland.

• The first 10 Finnish flying cadets arrive in Stockholm for training provided by the Royal Swedish Aero Club.

• In the United States, the 'one dollar collection' organized by the Finnish committee has already raised over a million dollars.

[CougarGA7]

Elanor dressed better.

[henkster]

I suspect that things are not going quite so well for the Finns on the Mannerheim Line as the article suggests. If you read the account of the volume of Soviet artillery, it’s pretty apparent that they are working over the decisive area with saturation fire, one pre-planned sector at a time.

We’ve also in recent days seen accounts that the Finnish forces are suffering from exhaustion from constant combat, and their own less numerous artillery suffers from ammunition shortages. While I’m certain they are continuing to inflict heavy casualties on the attacking Red, they are being ground down.

[henkster]

LOL! That’s hilarious!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Please CONTINUE posting these reminders of history.

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[iowamark]

One of ER’s radical friends was Joseph Lash, writer for the Communist Daily Worker. US intelligence agencies believed that Lash was a Soviet agent and sent wiretap transcripts of him and ER to FDR until the latter’s death in 1945. Lash’s mistress was German Communist Trude Pratt, whom he later married. The Lashes would publish the bestseller “Eleanor and Franklin” in 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trude_Lash
“”A Venona decryption from May 1943 discloses contact with Trude was maintained by Aleksej Sokirkin, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. for Soviet intelligence. The decrypt proposes using Trude to process information on Eleanor Roosevelt (Kapitansha). It also suggests bringing Elizabeth Zarubina, who handled many high-level important cases, into close touch with her.””

[henkster]

The Venona transcripts are very interesting on the Soviet mail we were reading. I suspect that not all of them have been released.

It turns out that American codebreaking was really good. Not only did we break the Japanese diplomatic and naval codes, we were reading encrypted traffic of just about every other country in the world.

This is one glaring exception, though, in the list of countries whose codes we cracked: The UK.

As far as I know, it has not yet been revealed whether the UK was reading our traffic, and vice versa.

Also, it appears that the Germans were able to penetrate our codes to a limited extent, but they relied more on traffic analysis than straight up code breaking.