Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time U. S. readers heard about Major General K. Martii Wallenius was almost a year ago, when he was released from jail after he had been cashiered from the army and sentenced to three years imprisonment for kidnapping Finland's George Washington, Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, her first President. General Wallenius was in the news again last week. At the head of 5,000 Lapuan Finnish Fascists he marched on Helsinki, the capital. Government troops met the advance 25 miles from the city where a skirmish occurred and the Lapuan march prudently halted. General Wallenius contented himself with...
...Finland's present President, jovial Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,* stands no bluffing. Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better...
Other speakers (to the never more than half full Congress hall) were those of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Jugoslavia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Uruguay...
...Hungary 7 Norway 77 Rumania 4 Canada 49 Italy 3 Sweden 26 Poland 3 Finland 25 Belgium 1 Austria 15 Czechoslovakia 1 Germany 12 Great Britain 0 France 10 Japan 0 Switzerland...
...Finland...