Word: eduskunta
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Finns trudged through swirling snows last week to the polling places, seeking an Eduskunta with enough courage to tackle the country's economic mess. The last parliament had kept right on voting child-welfare allowances and farm subsidies, though the national till was all but empty. It had refused to lower wages, though high costs priced Finland's products out of the world market, causing unemployment and a decline in national income...
...when the election results came in, reform hopes went out. The new, 200-member Eduskunta remained essentially unchanged. Finns gave their Communists more votes (21% against 16% last election), but the same number of seats (43) in the parliament. The Social Democrats picked up one seat (54); the Agrarians gained two (53); the liberal Finnish National Party gained 3 (13); the right-wing Swedish People's lost 2 (13); the Conservatives lost four...
Under the noses of a Soviet Control Commission, six political parties ran 580 candidates for 200 seats in the new Eduskunta (Parliament). U.S. correspondents in Helsinki reported that all parties and candidates had complete freedom of speech and action; Finnish voters enjoyed absolute privacy at the polls...
...result was less than a triumph for Finland's Communists. Their "Democratic Union" made tremendous strides but (on incomplete returns) got considerably less than a majority of the record 1,800,000 votes and 200 Eduskunta seats. A large proportion of the vote was still divided among the old-line, conservative parties...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
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