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...first 114 sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers-in London, Moscow, Paris, New York-had spread over 15 dismal, often heartbreaking months. Last week, at the 115th session, the Big Four agreed on every remaining major issue in the peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland. They then turned to tentative-very tentative-discussions of their next job: the drafting of treaties with Germany and Austria...
Among the delegates were tanned, freckled farmers from the Holy Land, businessmen from the U.S., Britons with Oxford accents, worn, pale graduates of Europe's D.P. camps, Jews from Finland and Aden, Dutch Guiana and China. All had come to Basel to answer the question: "Shall the Congress approve the Jewish Agency's formula for the partition of Palestine into separate and independent Arab and Jewish states as a bargaining basis with Britain?" On this question depended Jewry's attitude toward the London conference in January...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...
...last night's meeting in the Varsity Club, Penrose Hallowell '32, who held the inter-collegiate mile record during his sojurn in Cambridge, handed accolades to Jaakko for being a "great coach" and a good companion on their tour through Finland a few years...
...Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...