The Soviet Union has invaded Finland! Yesterday Red air-force bombers attacked Helsinki, killing seventy-five civilians, wounding several hundred. The great champion of the working class, the mighty preacher against “Fascist aggression,” the righteous stander-up for the “scrupulous and punctilious observance of treaties” (to quote Molotov as of a month ago), has fallen upon the most decent and workable little democracy in Europe in violation of half a dozen “solemn” treaties. The whole moral foundation which the Soviets have built up for themselves in international relations in the last ten
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