Washington, Dec. 2.
President Roosevelt told certain Government officials here yesterday that he was under considerable pressure from influential quarters to break off relations between the United States and Russia as a result of the Red invasion of Finland, He was said to have added that he and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, would not be rushed into a sudden decision on this question.
Russian agents in the United States were rumoured to be seeking to place extensive orders for American aeroplanes Various Government departments charged with the enforcement of the Neutrality Act, it is understood, were discussing the possibility yesterday of an unofficial: embargo against Russia resembling the moral embargo now in effect against Japan, Russian purchases of planes from the United States in October amounted to only $8,800. During 1939, however, total Russian purchases of American planes, propellers and motors have amounted to $1,066,000. keen interest because they had professed respect for international commitments while championing the cause of peace and justice.
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Germany, and even there one coüld not conceive of unanimity, there probably was not a motion where news of the Soviet invasion had not evoked sympathy for this latest victim of aggression and sickness of heart and mind at the failure of mankind to prevent more death and destruction Many wars had their origins in controversies or situations where in each Side has an argument not without points but such was not the case in the present one," the journal stated. The "Advertiser" concluded that there was a lesson applicable to the Far East in the Soviet invasion, The "Asahi Shimbun" said it was not known whether England, France and the United States would hurry to the succour of Finland but feared that their assistance, even if given, would not save Finland in view of the vast difference
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