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Perils Ahead. Dangers, both immediate and long-range, were scarcely dispelled by these hopeful actions. Finland was threatened today; Austria might be next; Italy would go through a crucial test in its April 18 elections. Wherever the Communists took power by election, they made sure, as in Poland, that they would never lose it by election. And when they lost elections, as in Czechoslovakia, they sought other roads to power. The democracies had to win every kind of contest every time in every country. The Communists only had to win once; then the country was withdrawn from contest, and could...
This week, after dawdling 14 days, the Finns cautiously accepted Stalin's handwritten summons to a talk about a proposed pact of mutual assistance which might end Finland's freedom. Last week from Helsinki TIME'S John Walker cabled...
Other parties felt bewildered and let down; hence the week's real surprise came Friday when they stuck to their guns, and Agrarians, Liberals and Conservatives, controlling 86 of the 200 parliamentary votes, notified President Paasikivi that they opposed treaty negotiations with Russia. Considering Finland's geographical and political position, these 86 showed plenty of courage...
...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
...echoes of 1939 followed me even to the airfield on the way out. There a kindly senior customs officer chalked my bags and remarked that I had a beautiful day for flying. I agreed, and added that I hadn't expected to see Finland looking so lovely this early in the year. He looked around through the big glass window for a moment, then half smiled and said: "Oh, it's a nice country! But too small...