"Failing to respond directly to each of the countless testimonies of sympathy and solidarity that he had the happiness of receiving in recent months, and which were of immense consolation and moral and material comfort to my country, which has been through painful trials, I turn to the Portuguese nation, to offer you my deepest thanks. Never the Finnish people will forget the nobility of such an attitude."
George Winekelmann Minister of Finland July 16, 1940
