The Archive · 1940

League Mission in Helsinki

Stockholm, Mar. 4.

'The League of Nations' mission has arrived at Helsinki to make a study of Russian methods of warfare, according to the newspaper "Allehanda."—Reuter.

London, Mar. 4.

Mr. Hermit Roosevelt, son of the 26th President of the United States, announced here yesterday that his appointment commander with rank of colonel in the "British contingent of the Interni al Expeditionary Force to Finland' firmation by the Finnish commander-in-chief.

The Finnish campaign, he said, is a crusade against Russia and Germany, both of which should be crushed. He expressed the hope that "thousands of other Americans" would enlist in the International Expeditionary Force.

Mr. Roosevelt recently became a British citizen and enlisted in the British Army shortly after the outbreak of the European war. He fought with the British Arthy düring the Great War.—United Press.

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