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References
- 1 2 Bush Jones, John (2006). The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945. Brandeis University Press. ISBN 1584654430. (Google Books)
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2009
- ↑ Craig Gerrard (15 September 2004), The Foreign Office and Finland, 1938-1940, ISBN 9780203322765
