Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sherman Bowles, a big, ruddy whirlwind of energy, was quick to defend himself. His newspaper imports newsprint from Finland, and, he said, the contract calls for payment in gold. The gold was in escrow and the Government was formally notified...
...abdicated all title to that regal role Mr. Chamberlain's task has been much eased. Last week the Canadian dollar was not pegged to Sterling as were the currencies of all other Dominions. Currencies of the following countries now move in close sympathy with Sterling: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil...
...Only Finland has paid her debt in full to date. Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Italy. Latvia and Lithuania have made token payments. The rest have defaulted. No mention did the President make of the Johnson Act which forbids all future public or private loans to defaulting nations. But in Washington early this week British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay sent the State Department a note announcing that, because the Johnson Act invalidates token payments, Great Britain would pay not another farthing "until it becomes possible to discuss an ultimate settlement of the intergovernmental war debts with a reasonable prospect of agreement." Same...
...style is what gives this story its force. The tale itself consists of not unfamiliar elements: a life guided by a desperate need for food and an equally desperate desire to avoid the notice of the OGPU, then months in filthy prisons, finally escape through northern Russia into Finland. All this has been told before by other exiles, but here it is set forth with a stark simplicity that strikes home like a javelin...
...Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before 1917 and in all of them still goes on a constant struggle of German v. Russian influence. Latvia is mostly an agricultural country. The Letts are an amiable, broad-faced people. Russian for more than 100 years, the country was dominated...