The Archive · 1940

Celebrations in Factories

Moscow, Mar. 14.

Soviet Russia is celebrating her "victory" over Finland, Moscow Radio announced today, and many meetings are being held in factories and public squares to honour the Red Army.

"The Red Army broke through the Mannerheim Line," it proclaimed.

The Soviet people approves the "peace policy" of its Government which, through its intervention in Finland, succeeded in removing the threat to Leningrad and in protecting the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, the radio station added.

Stress was laid on the failure of "the U.S. Moral Embargo on Russia to Continue Washington, Mar. 15.

The moral embargo on strategie materials to Russia will not expire with the cessation of hostilities, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, told the press here yesterday.—United Press.

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