15 DECEMBER 1939, page 2

News Of The Week

T HE fighting in Finland increases in intensity, and the odds facing the Finns are well described by the state- ment in a despatch from Helsinki that when a hundred Russians......

Sweden's Neutrality Government

The National Coalition Cabinet formed by Hr. Hansson, the Swedish Prime Minister, on a broad basis includes two Conservatives and two Liberals. Hr. Sandler, recently the object......

Britain And Italy In The Mediterranean

It was a wise step on the part of Sir Percy Loraine, the British Ambassador in Rome, to visit Malta, where contra- band control of cargoes bound to or from Germany is exercised,......

A German White Sheet

Herr von Ribbentrop's White Paper, designed to throw the responsibility for the war on Britain, may make some impres- sion in Germany. It can make none elsewhere. Never was any......

German Propaganda In The Balkans

The Balkan correspondent of The Times has been giving instructive examples of German propaganda in the countries of South-East Europe. In most of these countries popular feeling......

Belgium And Holland

Though news on the subject is scanty, it seems increasingly clear that Germany could not count on Belgium's neutrality in the event of a German attack on Holland. Speaking in......