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...Security Council found time to meet, too. They were called on to decide whether Italy and other former Axis satellites should now be recommended for U.N. membership. Andrei Gromyko said he would not veto Italy this time, provided Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Finland were admitted...
...troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
Train Trouble. Of course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased...
Most of the Friends' campers are aged 18 to 28. Half are Finnish; the rest come from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, the U.S. and Germany. They are chosen by local representatives of the American Friends Service Committee and are sent to Finland for ten-week periods. The men and some of the women work on construction; the rest of the women run the school, the nursery school, and cook for the camp...
...Friends Service Committee Americans now in Finland is handsome, young Mary Barclay Howarth of Wichita, Kans., who has been there for two years. Said she last week to a U.S. visitor...