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...four years ago, when Finland's Communists (a smaller group proportionally than those in France or Italy) were on the point of launching a full-blown Czech-type coupled by Minister of the Interior Leino, Finland's government fired the treacherous minister and ruthlessly purged all Reds from his police force. It was the boldest anti-Red gesture made by any free country in Europe since the war, but Moscow said not a word...
Paid in Full. At the armistice of September 1944, Russia handed vanquished Finland the stiffest reparations bill in recorded history, about 11% of her national income for eight years. The bill was carefully itemized. One-third was to be paid in the woodworking products which made up 80% of Finland's export earnings. Another third was to be paid in ships and cables, for which Finland would have to build new yards and import vast quantities of raw materials. The remaining third was to be paid in the products of heavy industry, for which Finland possessed neither the plants...
Russia's extortionate demands were based solely on the fact that she needed these items. How Finland, without iron, coal or heavy industry, was to produce them was Finland's worry. Aware that failure meant Russian occupation, bruised and battered Finland went to work, mobilized her depleted manpower, rationed her resources, her food, her living space and her energy, built plants and bought raw materials. By the end of this year, she will have paid the staggering bill in full...
...mark bill is engraved with a picture from mythology showing a band of naked people standing on a shore and looking wistfully out to sea. Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping $135 million...
...Finland braced itself this week for an invasion. Planes and ships, loaded to capacity, were already disembarking the advance guard of an expected 40,000 foreign visitors to the Olympic Games at Finland's capital. Helsinki's main boulevard, the Mannerheimintie, was lined with store windows displaying the five-colored Olympic rings. In the 10 local newspapers, news of the imminent games almost crowded out the G.O.P. convention in Chicago and the war in Korea. Some householders were demanding, and getting, sky-high prices for bed & board. Helsinki's restaurants hurriedly recruited an extra 2,500 helpers...