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Faint Damns. Committee Counsel Edward Morgan pointed out that Lattimore had helped raise money for Finland during the Soviet-Finnish war and had also supported the Marshall Plan, but Witness Budenz seemed not to be impressed. Exemptions from the party line were granted to people "in delicate positions," he said. He also had his own explanation of the Worker's criticism of Lattimore's recent book, Situation in Asia: "It is a policy to praise them with faint damns. We have this method used on a number of distinguished men, who if praised too closely would simply...
...National Students Association is planning the following work camp tours: Finland, Norway, Denmark; England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark; England, Yougoslavia; Denmark; Poland, Finland. Also, the following work camps are planned: British Harvest Camps, Germany, Finnish Lumber Camp, France, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe. The costs of the workcamp tours range from $454 to $505, the workcamps from...
Countries to be visited are: England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Scotland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Italy, Belgium, Israel, Turkey, India, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Poland...
...Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have to beat: Finland's Olympic champion in the Nordic, Heikke Hasu, who had come in sixth in the jumps and who figured to out-ski the Norwegians in the second event...
...next 26 finishers were either Swedes, Finns or Norwegians (the best a U.S. competitor could do was finish 46th), but Railroadman Slaattvik was not among them. His hopes of becoming Nordic champion melted long before he labored home in 36th place. The man he was afraid of, Finland's Hasu, made up enough cross-country points by finishing tenth to win the combined-event crown...