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...lavish caviar & champagne banquet, attended by all the top Soviet brass, Moscow last week honored visiting Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen. The Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet...
After returning to Helsinki in a special Russian plane, Premier Kekkonen proudly termed the $350-million treaty the biggest deal ever made by Finland. It would in all likelihood also be the costliest...
...Soviet vetoes have blocked nine states: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Nepal, Portugal. Five Soviet satellite states-Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Rumania-have failed to win a majority but the democratic nations have used no veto to bar them from membership...
...France and Spain. 2. Korea and Italy. 3. Western Germany and Belgium. 4. China and India. 5. Sweden and Finland...
Harsch believes that Russia's strength, like that of all religious states, is weakening around the edges, Tito, of course, is the obvious example, and the author thinks America's best hope lies in the nationalist heresy. He also takes courage from the failure of the communist coup in Finland in 1948 and the Western victory in Austria (though I think the rumblings of neo-Nazis in the latter place undermine his statement that "Austria is a great Western success story...