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Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...
...Persuaded Finland to stay out of such a bloc...
...Hungary. 4. Finland...
...patients who had regained their sight through the Eye-Bank, heard reports on new experimental work, discussed techniques, looked at movies of corneal grafting made in the U.S., Spain and France. An unusual suggestion for the future of corneal grafting was made by Dr. Mauno Vannas, on leave from Finland's University of Helsinki. If enough eyes are available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only about...
...Kuusinen, who last fall left her Communist husband, former Interior Minister Yrjö Leino, for his alleged Titoist leanings. Hertta is rapidly emerging as the leader of Finnish Communism. Washington guessed that Russia's propaganda offensive was designed chiefly to help Hertta and her comrades, tossed out of Finland's government last summer, to get back into power again...