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...Helsinki, Finland's Parliament, by a vote of 157 to 11, ratified the Soviet-Finnish mutual aid treaty (TIME, April 19) that Finns had not wanted...
...Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Brazil, The Netherlands and Italy (where the Doxa pollsters called the Communist vote within 4% a fortnight...
...Over Finland's state-controlled radio Paasikivi himself set the sugary tone. Said he: "We can look with confidence toward the future." In Moscow, Prime Minister Pekkala had already thanked the Soviet Union for its "benevolent attitude." Editors and politicians took the official cue. Finland, which had wanted no treaty at all, found itself rejoicing at having made the "best possible deal under the circumstances...
...Finland's treaty was broadly patterned on similar pacts between Moscow and all its eastern European satellites. It barred Finland from becoming a base for aggression against the Soviet Union by "Germany or any nation allied with her," and provided that the two countries "will consult each other in event of a threat of military attack." Paasikivi and other Finns comforted themselves with this consultation clause, but the comfort was coldish. Moscow could dig up a "threat" any day it had a mind...
...treaty tucked Finland even more snugly into the Soviet orbit, but for the present, non-Communist Finland had managed to preserve control over its internal affairs (though a Communist Minister of the Interior ran the police). Pooh-poohing "rumors about internal unrest, attempts at a coup and disturbance at the next political elections," President Paasikivi reassured his people: "Such objectives would have no chance of success here." Finland, it seemed, was different...