Word: finlande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running the police. To force the government's hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves were still...
...parliamentarians and a few ex-premiers (Churchill himself, France's Paul Reynaud and Paul Ramadier), but none was present in any official capacity and none traveled on government funds. There were exiles from Spain and from the French zone of Germany; from Red-blighted Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Finland. The vast majority of all delegates were shabby; frayed cuffs and soiled collars were conspicuous...
...Helsinki, Finland's Parliament, by a vote of 157 to 11, ratified the Soviet-Finnish mutual aid treaty (TIME, April 19) that Finns had not wanted...
...Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Brazil, The Netherlands and Italy (where the Doxa pollsters called the Communist vote within 4% a fortnight...
...treaty tucked Finland even more snugly into the Soviet orbit, but for the present, non-Communist Finland had managed to preserve control over its internal affairs (though a Communist Minister of the Interior ran the police). Pooh-poohing "rumors about internal unrest, attempts at a coup and disturbance at the next political elections," President Paasikivi reassured his people: "Such objectives would have no chance of success here." Finland, it seemed, was different...