A Trickle of Help (Jan. 22, 1940 Time Mag Capsule)

Finland was worried last week lest reports of her recent annihilation of two Russian divisions at Suomussalmi lead other nations to think she needed no help. But help on a small scale became more concrete each day. The French Government announced that not only was it shippinng material to the Finns, but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France.Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat. both Brazil and Colombia announced donations of coffee. The Canadian Red Cross set aside $50,000 for relief work.
Outnumbered six to one, Finland above all needed fighters, and a few of these too arived. A company of Danish volunteers joined the Swedes already under arms. From Paris went five American aviators who had ffought for the Loyalists the Spanish Civil War and one who flew for Franco.

Red Assault (Feb. 19, 1940)

Last fortnight, Russia began pounding on all fronts with every indication that this mightiest offensive of the war had been carefully planned, was well supplied and employed seasoned Read Army troops. Far behind the lines in Central Finland, Russian planes dropped men by parachute. These men were Finnish Communists who had fled to Russia after the Communist Party was outllawed in 1930. Last week they were back to plague the country, spying out the Army's movements, cutting communications, trying to spread dissatisfaction among the Finns, who sometimes mistook them for loyal brethren. Police rounded up many of these spies, warned the populace to beware of them but how many were still at large at week's end, no one knew.
With the spies came the bombs, sprayed by wave after wave of Soviet planes. Systematically the Russians went after every center of communications. They also got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis. And with the bombings came Stubborn Russian onslaughts that were wasteful of men and materials alike. From the far north to the Karelian Isthmus, the Russians attacked simultaneously. The Finns were in their tightest spot since the war began.