Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan Cottonman George Nichols and his Goose (defending champions) lined up against the slickest sloops of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, England and Germany...
Main stumbling-block in the Anglo-Soviet talks from the start has been Russia's insistence that Britain specifically guarantee Estonia, Latvia and Finland against German aggression. Last week Führer Hitler appeared in the singular role of playing Stalin's game for him as the British Government, alarmed over the Danzig situation, was reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during...
From 408 competing designs the jury* first chose ten finalists, allowed them five weeks to refine their work, then last week sweated for three days to pick the winner. Not only architecturally but politically popular, it was a design submitted by debt-paying Finland's clearheaded, apple-cheeked Eliel Saarinen, his broad-shouldered, brilliant son, Eero, and his son-in-law, Robert Swanson, all of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Professor Hudnut called the prize-($7,500)-winning design "well organized, logical and reasonable . . . yet with classical feeling...
...Expert Strang took no new formula to the Kremlin, was merely trying to wheedle unbudgeable Russians into entering a pact without specific British anti-aggression guarantees to reluctant Latvia, Estonia, Finland, observers thought Seichas likely to last for a long time. The more so as hard-headed Kremlin negotiators with one ear glued to the good earth hoped to make capital out of British embroilments with Japanese in China...
...proposals which followed it) was a "disappointment," but they would try, try again. Apparently they were still trying as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Cabinet with the approval of the French Cabinet, batted the ball back to the Russians, decided that offers of guarantees to Latvia, Estonia & Finland would be made only if those States asked for them, waited for the Kremlin to return the serve...