Franco-British plans for intervention in the Winter War Soviet Union. An allied war against the Soviet Union was part of the plan. The main naval launching point would be Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. The Soviet invasion of Finland excited widespread outrage at popular and elite levels in support of Finland not only in wartime Britain and France but also in neutral United States. The League of Nations declared the USSR was the aggressor and expelled it. "American opinion makers treated the attack on Finland as dastardly aggression worthy of daily headlines, which thereafter exacerbated attitudes toward Russia." The real Allied goal was
Romanian Black Sea Fleet during World War I machine guns. The minelayer "Alexandru cel Bun" was armed with two 37 mm guns and two machine guns, in addition to her load of mines. The main Romanian port of Constanța was leased to a Russian naval squadron, headed by the battleship "Rostislav". This, combined with the fall of the port to the Central Powers during the Second Battle of Cobadin, rendered the small Northern port of Sulina as the base for the Romanian Black Sea Fleet. On 13 November 1916, the German minelaying submarine "UC-15" set off to lay mines off Sulina. However, she only managed to lay two