Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jan 1940, Inside back cover

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THERESTANDS FIAý IF you were to name the greatest ýnation in the worldwould it be the, richest; would it bethe one whose possessions are the most wide-flung; would it be the most populous or that which boasted of the most de&* structive guns and the most'powerful army? Perhaps it would be tliat nation which paid its debts, which, courageous as the Greeks at Ther.. mopylae, figlits a barbarian horde, which faces annihilation rather- than compromise its liberty-the nation whose men today die on. the battie field and whose women and babies starve and freeze behind the fines. If this is the nation you would seek, there stands Finland. -AN AMERICAN

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