Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Already the Finns' hard-earned high living standard has largely disappeared. But still they are determined to fight on with a grimness and single-mindedness which left me, after a fortnight in Finland, with increased respect for Finnish fortitude and brass, awe at Finnish political obtuseness, but increasing pessimism regarding Finland's future...
...supposition abroad had been that the Finnish people, yearning for peace, were kept in the war solely by Nazi pressure and the duplicity of their Russophobic Government. Last week TIME Correspondent John Scott, visiting Helsinki, found evidence that this idea was wishful nonsense. Finland's Nazi allies had indeed brought pressure; the Helsinki Government had indeed been stubborn. But the war also had popular backing; Finns in general simply did not believe that they had been beaten, hence saw no reason to hurry into peace on Russian terms. Cabled Scott...
...most ordinary Finns can see both on the front and in the rear, Finland is an undefeated country in which wartime life is difficult but by no means intolerable...
...most observers in Helsinki whom I have talked to is-in any case the Government should not close the doors for further negotiations with the Russians, but should try to get better terms than those which are now being discussed. Most Finns want peace under conditions which would assure Finland liberty and independence, but many doubt whether the present Russian proposals guarantee these to Finland...
Despite the hindrances of the war and various censorships, Shapley mentioned, telegraphic communications during the year have reported astronomical work from Russia, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Rumania, Demnark, and Argentina. Cablegrams to Europe are sent through the observatory at Lund, Sweden...