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enable them to regain control of a buffer zone extending from
Bessarabia to Finland.
(7) When Russia made war on Finland to get control of the approaches
to Leningrad, in the winter of 1939-40, the West almost forgot
about its war with Germany and psychologically went to war with
Russia. Our Government and people, from the President down,
showed active sympathy to Finland, i.e., hostility to Russia.
By their own statements, Chamberlain and Daladier were saved
from making war on Russia only by the refusal of Norway and
Sweden to give transit rights to Finland over their territories.
(8) The indignation of the Western world was so great that Russia
was expelled bodily from the League of Nations, after Japan,
Italy and Germany had been allowed to engage in open and
notorious careers of conquest without expulsion. Each was
allowed to choose her own moment to walk out of the League.
II. Continuing Hostility Toward Soviet Russia.
(1) Many South American states still do not recognize Russia govern-
ments which might vote in the United Nations to label Russia as
an aggressor because of her current handling of Poland.
(2) There is much continuing fear and hostility toward Russia in
Great Britain and in the United Nations. The common talk among
our own people that we will have to fight Russia next can hardly
escape the Russians.
(3) They do not know that we will strive for a peaceful live-and-let-live
relationship between Western capitalist democracy and Russian
state socialism.
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