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...shaky Finnish Government of Premier Urko Castren, in crisis ever since the signing of the armistice with Russia last September, staggered out of office. In its place moved a new cabinet headed by Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 74. Dr. Paasikivi was persona grata in Moscow. He had helped negotiate three treaties that ended Finland's three wars with Russia-in 1920, 1940 and 1944. The national crisis was deferred, not ended...
...conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns looked...
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