The Archive · 1940

Soviet Train Derailed

Stockholm, Jan. 4, Activity of the Finnish air force is increasing. It is certain that Finnish lanes ce-operated with troops on Skiig In the destruction of a. section '0f the Murmansk railway. One whole train transporting Soviet troops fell Into a river when a railway bridge was destroyed by the Finns.

Finnish plane have also dropped millions of pamphlets on Soviet terthe future world will be a shabby and dangerous place in which to live even for Americans—if it is ruled by force in the hands of a few."

"Already the crash of swiftly moving. events over the earth has made. all of us think with a longer view,"" Mr. 'Roosevelt said. "Fortunately, that thinking cannot be controlled by partisanship. The time {s long past when any political party or any partiewlar group can curry or aptuze' public favour" by" labelling {self "Peace Party' or 'Peace Bloc'. 'That label belongs to the whole United States and every right-think-{ng man, woman, and child within it 'The President' said that out of the military and diplomatic turmoil the world fs now in two facts have emerged.

Firstly, United States* accomplishment towerd the establishment of her "good neighbour" policy in Central and South Ametiea is without pre-

Secondly, public opinion in almost every nation is convinced that the United "States will continue very potent and active In. seeking world peace—United Press.

Graf Spee is shown in flames Aires to New York

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