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...Finland yesterday decided to negotiate with Russia for a friendship and military pact--a step which some sources predict will bind the Scandinavian country with Soviet bloc. After two weeks of study, the Finnish cabinet decided to accept the Russian proposal for an alliance treaty, and suggested that the negotiations take place in Moscow...
Finns who thought of Prague could guess what "conditions for a radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
This movement by the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia is part of a concerted action by the Kremlin to dominate all the countries in Western Europe. Finland is next on the list, then possibly France and Italy. I thought we had learned the lesson at Munich. If we don't soon, it will be, once again, "too little and too late." Eric Sokolsky...
...choice but to cancel the tour," stated G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and Glee Club conductor, explaining regretfully that the major part of the trip was to have been though Sweden and Holland. The remainder of the tour consisted only of short three-day jaunts through Denmark, Finland, and Norway...