Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no crazy Russian mass in Finland today. The Russians on the Control Commission have been cut to a mere 200. Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all...
The Price of Honesty. The Finns are proud of their reparations record. I mentioned to Ilomari Harki, who sits on the Reparations Commission, that Finland was highly regarded in the U.S. for her honesty. He smiled: "Yes, but it's a pity it costs so much to be honest...
Japan will be opened to private trade on August 15. So the War Department announced this week. But trade will be small at first. Only 400 businessmen will be admitted into Japan, under allocations to the Allied Nations by the Inter-Allied Trade Board of the Far Eastern Commission in...
While these major decisions waited, the President closeted himself in the White House, free of callers, to attack his backlog of other urgent business. He signed without ceremony the $350 million foreign relief bill. He had a long talk with the members of his commission to study universal military training...
Cape Harting, a Maritime Commission-built C-1 freighter bound for West Africa in 1942.