Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable, however, that one man would already have his bags virtually packed: Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, toting his presidential ambitions around the world, is getting ready to attend the Interparliamentary Union meeting at Helsinki, Finland, then make the Moscow trek. He already has his visa in hand...
...being killed at more than twice the rate of their Canadian and Australian brothers. The U.S. homicide rate is three times that of Scotland, six times that of England, Ireland and Wales. Among the more violent homicidal nations: the Dominican Republic (7.5 per 100,000), Guatemala (4.2), Ceylon (3.9), Finland (3.3). No reliable figures are available on homicides behind the Iron Curtain...
...Stockholm a "Mr. Miller" gave him $200 and orders to report on Finnish morale. Burdett was visiting Finnish army positions when Finland capitulated three weeks later. When he went back to Stockholm, he met his contact, Miller. "Well," Miller asked, "how did the Finns take the end of the war?" Burdett said that they "were prepared to go on fighting." "Well, Mr. Burdett," said Miller, handing him $400, "thank you very much. That's everything. Here is your money to go back...
...Einhorn, once an Eagle reporter and active Guild official, was named by Burdett as the man who first tapped him for Soviet espionage. Einhorn, now a public-relations man for the Communist Polish embassy, blandly replied on the stand that he had merely suggested sending Burdett to Finland as an "objective" reporter for the Communist New Masses or Daily Worker. He refused, under the Fifth Amendment, to answer questions about past party membership...
...Finland...