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Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's aging (78) President, left Helsinki for points west and south. Officially, he was traveling for his health (he is asthmatic). Unofficially, the veteran soldier and inveterate foe of Soviet Russia was said to be avoiding his country's "War Responsibles" trial...
...either case, Finland's raw climate was more than Mannerheim's constitution could stand. His destination: Portugal's sunny Islands of Madeira...
...rest of the week was the same-nothing earthshaking, but everything brisk. The President named State Department Careerist Maxwell M. Hamilton to be Minister to Finland. He saw a long list of visitors, assured a group of Democratic and Republican women that he favors the equal-rights Constitutional amendment. Now for the outing...
Russian proposals for a treaty with Finland had easy sailing. So had their peace terms for Hungary-until the U.S. and Britain discovered that Russia had signed a trade treaty under which the U.S.S.R. might monopolize half of Hungary's trade. Rumania and Bulgaria were still tougher cases. Secretary Byrnes submitted treaty drafts insisting upon democratic processes in both countries. After skillful maneuvering by Molotov, the Russian drafts were made the basis for study by the deputies...
When the civil war broke out in 1936, energetic Señora de Palencia was her country's Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Finland - the first woman ever to represent Spain abroad. After the final, desperate retreat, she and her family went to Mexico, whose Government had extended an open-house invitation to all Spanish refugees...