Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soup & Potatoes. This hatred of Moscow is as strong as anywhere in Finland, which I found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
...found much of interest in Finland. I became acquainted with the work of Vaino Altonen, a sculptor who is practically unknown outside Finland but who should rank as one of the finest alive. I found what is perhaps the world's finest work in art ceramics being done in Helsinki's Arabia porcelain works, Finland's largest manufacturer of tiles, bathtubs...
...different our views." The commissions made some headway on boundaries and reparations. On the thorny subject of reparations they agreed: from Italy, $325 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ethiopia; from Hungary and Rumania each, $300 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia; from Bulgaria, $125 million to Greece and Yugoslavia; from Finland, $300 million to Russia. The principle of freedom of the Danube was voted, 8-to-5, but Russia & friends (who control most of the river) voted no. And the working sessions failed entirely to produce a statute for the contemplated Free Territory of Trieste, leaving that subject...
Americans who doubt that the Kremlin has a master plan would do well to observe the flexibility with which it has adapted its methods of control to its strength in the satellite countries. Thus, in Finland, Soviet control, while strong, is practically invisible. In Czechoslovakia, where Communists have tight control of the government, there is a high degree of popular democracy. Yugoslavia, with its Communist dictatorship, is practically a part of the Soviet Union. In Rumania, where Communists are 2% of the population, it has moved cautiously...
...East-West struggle for Germany and Austria, the heart of Europe's peace problem, was being waged in Germany and Austria. Paris was only haggling over the peripheries of the peace-Italy, Finland, the Balkans. But they were rough edges, and the Big Four had left many a major issue unsettled in the treaty drafts: the Italo-Yugoslav and Greco-Bulgarian borders, the exact status of Trieste, reparations, Danubian free trade, the disposition of the Italian colonies. Of these problems the delegates of the 21 nations at Paris had not yet solved a single...