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...BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, FINLAND and AUSTRIA, socialist parties have faded slightly or just about held their...
...bidder for self-improvement this year is Finland. Long worried about their manners, particularly the knife-brandishing belligerence of Finnish drunks, the Finns last month stepped up their courtesy campaign. Run by the serious "Citizens' Good Behavior Organization," the drive is aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy...
Skeptics thought that self-improvement would thaw in warmer weather. But optimists remembered the words of Finland's famed writer Aleksis Kivi: "If we once start on the job, we'll stick to it with clenched teeth." In Helsinki's Parliament Building last week, Finns jammed a meeting of the Anti-Obesity Association. President Yrjo Simila had clenched his teeth, dieted from 240 to 180 Ibs., and was feeling like...
...Britain, Norway, Sweden and Finland, whenever I have asked Socialist leaders about further nationalization, the reaction has usually been strangely identical: a slightly sheepish smile, an embarrassed shrug, some evasive words amounting to this: 'Don't get us wrong, we're still Socialists, mind you, but you see this isn't quite the time...
...election over, Paasikivi sent off a stiff answer to the month-old Russian note accusing Finland of harboring Soviet "war criminals." Finland, said Paasikivi, "is entitled to reject categorically the assertions that Finnish authorities have supplied war criminals with faked documents...