Word: antti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace and Paralysis. Next in line were the Finns. Minus their chairman, Premier Antti Hackzell, who had suffered a stroke four hours before, they marched up to the Kremlin to learn their fate. Without audible comment they sent the terms to Helsinki. Then the Germans, on orders from Berlin, went back on their agreement to evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms...
Finns Bow. For a fortnight the Finns had queued up before Government Alko-holiliike (liquor stores), which had suddenly opened after a long shutdown. They had drunk toasts to peace. Then, at last, under the eye of old Baron Carl Mannerheim, Prime Minister Antti Hackzell broadcast Nazi weakness to all the world: "It is not possible for Germany to give us sufficient help to stay...