Word: fagerholm
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Helsinki's non-Communist press last week welcomed back "the Paavo Nurmi of Finnish politics." Red newspapers damned the release of Tanner (whom they called "worse than Laval and Quisling"), and threatened "dire consequences." With a cautious eye on the Kremlin, bull-necked Premier Karl August Fagerholm, Tanner's most ardent disciple, did not immediately invite the old fire-eater back into the government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party...
...political leaders the most interesting-because they hold the greatest potential influence-are Social Democrats Karl-August Fagerholm, speaker of Parliament, and Onni Peltonen, locomotive engineer by trade, who is chief of the Social Democrat parliamentary bloc and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Peltonen has led the fight for a firm policy, while the softening influence is attributed to Fagerholm, who was in Stockholm the first of the week and returned with a roaring case of jitters...