Word: erkko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's tense end, Paasikivi turned up again in Stockholm. So did Eljas Erkko, another onetime Foreign Minister, and Leo Ehrnrooth, Minister of Interior. There were persistent reports that the Russian Ambassador, Mme. Alexandra Kollantai, had given them the terms...
Friday. The Copenhagen Ekstrabladet reported that Soviet Minister to Sweden Alexandra Kollontay had got in touch with Finnish Minister to Sweden Eljas Erkko...
...only real fact to realize," said Finland's Minister to Stockholm Eljas Erkko, "is that war in Finland is still going on." All Europe's statesmen and all her journalists might be negotiating and writing about peace (see p.19) but in the heap of bricks that was Viipuri. along the Vuoksi where at least the surface of the ice was beginning to be spongy, above Lake Laatokka where the Finns say they came on a freezing, black-clad Russian holding up his arms and crying: "Don't shoot me! I'm a Russian capitalist": far north...