Finland's wiry old peasant President, Kyosti Kallio—73 years old and full of sisu (courage)—last week thought up a new scheme to get supplies for his country. To the New York Times's Correspondent Harold Denny he said:
"We are deeply grateful for the help America has extended us with humanitarian materials, but such help must be altered if the Finnish population is not to be massacred. ... If our civilians—our old men and women and children—are to be killed in their houses, as is happening every day in our cities, towns and villages, they will have no need for food and clothing.†
"Why...
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