Word: finlande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second on the list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
Basil Robert McAllister, a wispy, stoop-shouldered Bronx bank teller, first fell in love with Finland at the New York World's Fair, in 1939. He visited the Finnish Pavilion on his days off, met and liked the Finns who worked there. A bachelor, he joined a Finnish club in Manhattan, went to dinners and dances there. When the fair ended, he began to correspond with his Finnish friends who had returned home. Said he: "The Finns are very straightforward and honest and dependable. They agree with me and I agree with them...
...month ago, his grateful Finns made up a pool, paid for his air passage for a visit. Armed with hundreds of lollipops for the children, McAllister went. He saw nearly all his families. The children had been taught to say: "How do you do, Uncle Bob. Welcome to Finland." Last week McAllister returned happily to the U.S. and to his lonely one-room apartment in The Bronx. He hoped to save enough in two years to visit Finland again...
...Finland's Hertta Kuusinen, a smooth intellectual, now Minister Without Portfolio, and wife of Communist Yrjo Leino, whom she dominates. Hertta got her Communism from her father Otto Kuusinen, a party veteran...
...bourgeoisie (his father was a minor Czarist official), Zhdanov had spent his life fighting his father's kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...