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...Finland's "War" Debt...
TIME (June 26) says that Finnish Minister Procope "represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S." Surely you must know that Finland never had any such debt to pay back...
...Technically true. But many so-called "war" debts were created after World War I. Finland, a noncombatant, paid $9,000,000 cash for U.S. food delivered in 1919. When the U.S. later extended credit to other needy nations, the credit was made retroactive for Finland and the $9,000,000 was returned. (Finland still owes $8,567,490.43. Her famed payments have disposed of little more than the loan's interest...
...Brushed off questions about De Gaulle, Finland and foreign policy, but added a third word to his usual dismissing phrase. Said he: "No comment...
...looked as though Tanner's Social Democrats (85 out of 200 Diet seats) would revolt. But the effective time had passed. Germans were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near...