Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Finland's efficient Army-every Finnish male receives more than two years' military training beginning at 21 and remains in the Reserve or the Territorial Army up to his 52nd year-was brought up to a strength of 300,000 last week. Its Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between...
...greatest of living Finnish commanders, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 72, now National Defense Council President, who remained quietly at Helsinki. In the sporadic fighting between the Finnish Army and the Red Army in the months just after the Russian Revolution Baron Mannerheim "saved Finland," and for a time he was Regent when it was not yet sure that the country would become a Republic. In the 19th Century Finland was a Grand Duchy with the Tsar of Russia as its Grand Duke, and as a young man Baron Mannerheim fought as a Tsarist officer in the Russo...
...Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect injuriously the peaceful relations between Soviet Russia and Finland...
Ambassador Steinhardt left the Kremlin at 3:30 p.m. and one after another in bus-tied the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ministers with similar notes expressing their Governments' "expectation that nothing will occur which would prevent Finland from continuing independently her neutral position." After this U. S.-Scandinavian buildup, the Finnish Delegation entered the Kremlin punctually at 5 p.m. and Dr. Paasikivi talked behind closed doors for 45 minutes with Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov...
...Navy this week entered the harbor of Tallinn, Estonia's capital, on a hulking grey-snouted cruiser and ten smaller Soviet warships. To statesmen this was grim business, the physical establishment of the Red Navy on a base dominating Estonia and commanding the Gulf of Finland in accordance with the treaty which Dictator Stalin recently forced Estonia to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), but for the sailors it was a lark, an adventure into the strange world of Capitalism...