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...Final Pressure. The facts he heard made Lovett restless to get back. At the State Department the lights burned late all last week. On the heels of Jan Masaryk's suicide in Czechoslovakia (TIME, March 22) had come urgent requests for help from Finland. Norway soon followed. What was the U.S. prepared to do if either took a firm stand against Russia? Then Ambassador Bedell Smith cabled from Moscow: Could not Congress be made to realize the imperative need for some action which the Russians would understand? Smith urged a soldier's solution: immediate enaction of U.M.T...
Amid nervous rumors of an impending Russian invasion of their neighbor, Norway, the Finns sent a fateful mission to Moscow last week. Its purpose: "discussion" of the military pact Stalin wants to conclude with Finland...
...envoys were preparing for departure, orders came from Moscow to pack full evening dress and decorations. That created a crisis: only the Communist Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino had thought of taking frakkipuku (tails) on a mission that would probably mean Finland's doom. When the delegates finally climbed into a chocolate-brown sleeper at Helsinki station, a small man in the crowd cried: "It's just like 1939!" Part of the crowd started to sing the Finnish national anthem; Communists countered with the Internationale. But the patriots had the last word. With conviction, they sang...
...delegation was Communist Minister of Interior Yrjö Leino. His wife, lively 44-year-old Hertta Kuusinen (sometimes called Finland's Ana Pauker), is the daughter of Russian stooge Otto Kuusinen, President of the Karelo-Finnish Republic which Russia grabbed from Finland in World...
...negotiators got ready to hear what concession Stalin proposed to extract from the Finns (one guess: bases in Finland), the local Communists grew bolder. Communist "working committees" visited Helsinki newspapers, warned them to stop "anti-Soviet propaganda." Said one editor: "The next move will be an invasion of newspaper offices by hired gangsters and the eviction of our staffs...