Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Published in Washington last week were the official texts, in three languages, of World War II's first five peace treaties - with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Finland. They will be formally signed at Paris on Feb. 10 and go into force when ratified by the major powers. Even after 16 months' debate, the treaties were not complete; some clauses, like the proviso that "navigation on the Danube shall be free and open," need further negotiation before they can be implemented. The treaty highlights...
Applause followed her through Norway and Sweden. In Finland, Composer Jean Sibelius offered her coffee, but after hearing her sing, cried: "Champagne!" In Paris, her first house was "papered." From her second concert, enthusiasts were turned away in droves. She swept through South America...
...first 114 sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers-in London, Moscow, Paris, New York-had spread over 15 dismal, often heartbreaking months. Last week, at the 115th session, the Big Four agreed on every remaining major issue in the peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland. They then turned to tentative-very tentative-discussions of their next job: the drafting of treaties with Germany and Austria...
Among the delegates were tanned, freckled farmers from the Holy Land, businessmen from the U.S., Britons with Oxford accents, worn, pale graduates of Europe's D.P. camps, Jews from Finland and Aden, Dutch Guiana and China. All had come to Basel to answer the question: "Shall the Congress approve the Jewish Agency's formula for the partition of Palestine into separate and independent Arab and Jewish states as a bargaining basis with Britain?" On this question depended Jewry's attitude toward the London conference in January...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...