Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famine program. And Stalin had replied-but Truman was noncommittal about the nature of the reply. Then the Moscow radio blared an answer of its own: Russia, threatened with drought in the Ukraine, was nevertheless shipping 1,100,000 tons of grain to key spots, France, Poland, Rumania and Finland-where it would also do the most political good...
...American Communist Party (spring model '46) hopefully held its breath. On Friday, ex-Comrade Earl Browder crossed over into Soviet territory at the frontier station of Vainikkala, Finland. Then & there he vanished. What had happened to him? The C.P. hoped for the worst...
Last week Washington heard reports that U.S. officials in Germany had found, in a transcript of the Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
...Helsinki, balding, sad-eyed ex-President Risto Ryti and seven other Cabinet ministers had been tried, under special retroactive legislation, for "contributing to Finland's entry into the war on Germany's side." Twelve Finns had tried for 19 days to reach a verdict, with Russia impatiently looking over their shoulders. Last week, the tribunal announced a verdict of guilty. The Finnish court had obviously shared worldwide doubts on whether the responsibility for war was a crime. In relation to the charge, the sentences were fantastically light. Ryti and his colleagues would serve an average of 4.8 years...
...badly that the U.S. has decided to lend foreign governments the money to buy it. So the Foreign Liquidation Commission reluctantly admitted last week. Already being discussed are 3O-year loans totaling $210 million: $100 million to Russia, $50 million each to Poland and Czechoslovakia, $10 million to Finland. Specifically for the purchase of surplus, they would be apart from the big overall U.S. loans now being discussed (see INTERNATIONAL...