. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. from all protection overFinland and grants to the former Grand Duchy absolute andcomplete national independence. Then, as the presence of an in-dependent and possibly hostile State upon her exposed frontierwould be obviously incompatible with her national security, shemarches an army corps into Finland and annexes the country—lock, stock, and barrel. White to play—mate in two would be a huge outcry, but anybody who knows any- ? I read in a recent issue of a lead


. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. from all protection overFinland and grants to the former Grand Duchy absolute andcomplete national independence. Then, as the presence of an in-dependent and possibly hostile State upon her exposed frontierwould be obviously incompatible with her national security, shemarches an army corps into Finland and annexes the country—lock, stock, and barrel. White to play—mate in two would be a huge outcry, but anybody who knows any- ? I read in a recent issue of a leading London daily paper the statement that Russiahad suppressed the use of the Finnish language throughout Finland! THE FINNS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 95 thing of contemporary Europe knows that not a finger wouldbe raised to stop her. And I do not see an American fleet steam-ing up the Baltic. Thus Russia could get all she wants, andinfinitely more than she is asking, without transgressing for aninstant or by a hairs breadth that sacred formal legality in whichlaws and lawyers often perpetrate injustice iBiiilis;::


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