Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...
Scott discovered the same determination among Finnish peasants-but with a difference. The top men knew how little chance Finland has to win, but did not tell the country; the peasants, all unknowing, confidently believed not only that Finland was winning but that she would continue to win. The Germans? Finland would come out all right, anyway. Only among Finnish workers did Scott find a strong desire for peace, a strong disagreement with government policy. But they could not speak...
...Soviet Russia, like most countries, would like to have friendly neighbors. Finland, run by Ryti, Mannerheim, Tanner, and Linkomies, is irrevocably hostile to Soviet Russia. A relationship between Soviet Russia and Finland as ruled today, along the lines outlined by the Soviet-Czech pact, is out of the question. What can Moscow do about...
...First possibility: go in and throw out the hostile Government, then lay the basis for cooperation. This the Russians tried to do in Finland in 1939, but were thwarted. Second possibility: let the country have whatever government it has or seems to want, but weaken the country strategically and economically to the point where it could not possibly harm Russia. This the Russians did to Finland in March 1940, when the taking of Viipuri, Hango and the Saimaa Canal placed Finland in a dependent position. But the 1941 world situation interrupted Russian plans and Finland became just that place...
...again Russia may choose between these two methods. Moscow's proposals in February and March followed the second line of action. These terms-the 1940 frontiers, the harbor of Petsamo lost to Russia, and a heavy indemnity-would have reduced Finland to a position of economic dependency and more or less permanent military impotence. There probably would have been internal difficulties in Finland besides, as few governments in history have survived a lost war and Russia's conditions would have meant to most Finns that Finland had lost the war. Moreover the Germans would probably have made...