Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 23, only nine days before Adolf Hitler ordered his Army to invade Poland, Leopold and Wilhelmina, joined by the heads of the three Scandinavian States and Finland and Luxembourg, had offered their "good offices" in mediating Europe's crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula...
...Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would be diplomatic or military) would...
Russia's box score in her eight weeks' game of aggression: gained by kicking: one (Poland); gained by rushing: three (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia); fumbles: one (Turkey); lost on downs: one (Finland...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
...historic military mancuvers, none have been so daring as this, Hannibal swept through the Alps, Schlieffen goose-stepped his Prussians around Belgium, but only Boyer is seeking his objective through the Heart. Unlike Russia's overtures to Finland, the movie-star has already won the confidence of his feminine audience. They will cling to every word as he pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer...