Word: finlandization
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Russia's Ambassador to the League of Nations, Maxim Litvinov, was outspoken in his opposition to the aggressive crimes against Ethiopia, Spain, the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. At first Litvinov, was only ignored; by 1940, Russia was officially ejected for an aggression in Finland. The meaning of appeasement, to Fleming showed a Western preference for Hitler over the Reds. Best of all would be, as then-Senator Harry Truman put it, "If we see that Germany is winning the war we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and in that...
...mixed. Pravda, the party organ, professed to find satisfaction in the fact that Russia's archenemies, the Social Democrats, lost slightly in the total popular vote compared with 1958. Izvestia, the government mouthpiece, was unhappy, accused "right-wing bourgeois groups" of using "all means, including provocations," to defeat Finland's Communists...
...Finland owes its precarious freedom, says President Urho K. Kekkonen, to the ability "to live on fine distinctions." In foreign affairs, the tiny nation follows a policy of friendly neutrality toward its giant Soviet neighbor, but in its internal politics, Finland has steadfastly denied power to the Communists. In parliamentary elections last week, Finland again demonstrated its gift for fine distinctions: it slapped down local Communists with out overtly offending Moscow...
...elections were the latest installment of a political cliffhanger that began last fall when Moscow started making menacing noises suggesting a Soviet military move against Finland. At the time, President Kekkonen rushed to Siberia for a soothing meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, assured him of Finland's firm friendship with Russia, and returned home with a ringing plea that Finnish anti-Communists ought to quit public life. Only a few took his advice. In presidential elections last month, Kekkonen himself was overwhelmingly re-elected as the man who could get along with Moscow. In last week's parliamentary race...
...fellow-traveling Independent Socialists: twelve of their 14 representatives were defeated. The strongly anti-Communist Social Democrats picked up only one seat for a new parliamentary total of 38. Net: a one-vote leftist majority was replaced by a 13-vote majority of centrists, which promised to free Finland from years of legislative paralysis...