Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, including the fair warning to Satan, was the work of an extraordinary army of 75,000 invading and noisy militants-from Finland, Argentina, Scotland, Mexico and every corner of the U.S. They were encamped on the shores of Lake Erie for the Glad Nations Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses...
...Communist Party members. Of these the dominant figure is Yrjö Leino, Minister of the Interior. His wife-pretty Hertta Kuusinen-is leader of the Democratic People's Union in the Diet, and daughter of the President of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic which incorporated southeastern Finland after...
Little Slips. One of the few signs of Russian interference in Finland today is a mild press censorship administered by Leino, who informs newspapers ("by little slips of paper," as one editor put it) what subjects are taboo. The principal forbidden subject is criticism of Russia...
Whether or not that time ever comes and Russia openly takes over the political reins in Finland, it is certain the Finnish economy is becoming more & more integrated with her big neighbor's to the east. Only one-third of Russia's reparations bill can be paid in wood products, although more than 80% of Finland's prewar exports came from her forests. A third of reparations must be paid in machines and tools, and most of the remainder in ships...
This means that Finland must build up her metal and engineering industry-for which she will have trouble finding any future customer, except Russia, after reparations are fully paid. At present, at least a tenth of Finland's national income goes for reparations, which will run for six more years...