Word: finlande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delegation was Communist Minister of Interior Yrjö Leino. His wife, lively 44-year-old Hertta Kuusinen (sometimes called Finland's Ana Pauker), is the daughter of Russian stooge Otto Kuusinen, President of the Karelo-Finnish Republic which Russia grabbed from Finland in World...
...negotiators got ready to hear what concession Stalin proposed to extract from the Finns (one guess: bases in Finland), the local Communists grew bolder. Communist "working committees" visited Helsinki newspapers, warned them to stop "anti-Soviet propaganda." Said one editor: "The next move will be an invasion of newspaper offices by hired gangsters and the eviction of our staffs...
Other parties felt bewildered and let down; hence the week's real surprise came Friday when they stuck to their guns, and Agrarians, Liberals and Conservatives, controlling 86 of the 200 parliamentary votes, notified President Paasikivi that they opposed treaty negotiations with Russia. Considering Finland's geographical and political position, these 86 showed plenty of courage...
...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
...echoes of 1939 followed me even to the airfield on the way out. There a kindly senior customs officer chalked my bags and remarked that I had a beautiful day for flying. I agreed, and added that I hadn't expected to see Finland looking so lovely this early in the year. He looked around through the big glass window for a moment, then half smiled and said: "Oh, it's a nice country! But too small...