Word: finlandization
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...ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt hit bottom in Soviet esteem when he condemned the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and placed a "moral embargo" on U.S. sale of planes and other war materials to the U.S.S.R...
...published in 13 languages and 40 editions, not to mention one for school children and two for the blind.* Convicts in U.S. prisons get 50,000 copies a month free. It goes to more than 100 countries and outsells all other monthly magazines in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Venezuela-and, of course, the U.S. Last week the Reader's Digest-circ. 22.8 million-proudly observed its 40th birthday with a 300-page anniversary issue...
Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, yesterday urged student organizations and their leaders not to participate officially in the Eighth World Youth Festival in Helsinki, Finland, this summer...
...executive committee of the Young Democratic Club yesterday voted unanimously to condemn the forthcoming World Youth Festival. The YDCHR resolution called the Festival, scheduled for July 27-Aug. 5 in Helsinki, Finland, "an obvious attempt by the world Communist movement to misrepresent world student opinion a meeting, ostensibly non-partisan, but in reality dominated and controlled by the Communists...
...national central organizations of the youth and students of Finland, a council the neutrality of which is known and recognized all over the world" wanted protest "a situation, where the endeavour of our country to keep neutral has not been respected and the viewpoint of the representative youth and student organizations has not been taken into consideration," the cable said...