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...born on the feast day of Saint Igor (June 18), at Oranienbaum, on the Gulf of Finland, where his family frequently spent their summers. In his autobiography, he recalls the "sharp resinous tang of fresh cut wood" and an enormous dumb peasant, feared by all the other kids, who sang a song "composed of two syllables, the only ones he could pronounce . . . From beneath [his] red shirt he extracted a succession of sounds [by putting his right hand under his left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home...
Some political parties might consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking...
...week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...
...running the police. To force the government's hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves were still...
...parliamentarians and a few ex-premiers (Churchill himself, France's Paul Reynaud and Paul Ramadier), but none was present in any official capacity and none traveled on government funds. There were exiles from Spain and from the French zone of Germany; from Red-blighted Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Finland. The vast majority of all delegates were shabby; frayed cuffs and soiled collars were conspicuous...