The Archive · 1939

Press Show Anger

The American press sensationally featured the story of Russia's invasion of Finland with screaming headlines and extras reminiscent of the first days of the European War, Editorials and cartoons continued along the same line taken since the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish crisis, hotly criticizing Moscow and recalling the fable of the wolf's accusation of the sheep.

Conservative editorials ' predicted that Russia's invasion of Finland would mark the final blow to Communist sympathy in most parts of the world, particularly in the United States—United Press,

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