Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buried deep in Finland's endless pine forests some 40 miles south of Rovaniemi, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is the little community of Varejoki. The people of Varejoki, struggling desperately to keep alive and to create a new life for themselves, are a strange assortment. There are 50 Finnish farmers-mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory-who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks. There are several score prisoners-mostly short-term smugglers and black marketeers-who live in improvised barracks almost without guards. And there...
Most of the Friends' campers are aged 18 to 28. Half are Finnish; the rest come from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, the U.S. and Germany. They are chosen by local representatives of the American Friends Service Committee and are sent to Finland for ten-week periods. The men and some of the women work on construction; the rest of the women run the school, the nursery school, and cook for the camp...
...Friends Service Committee Americans now in Finland is handsome, young Mary Barclay Howarth of Wichita, Kans., who has been there for two years. Said she last week to a U.S. visitor...
These students come from all the western nations: Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Greece--and from others outside the Marshall Plan: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Finland, and Republican Spain. Six Displaced Persons complete the roster, which was to have included Poland and Bulgaria, too, until last-minute difficulties kept their students away...
...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...