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...U.S.S.R., TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found out that the voice of Russia's plain people was very different from the voice of official Moscow (TIME, May 26). Last week he listened to some of Finland's people and cabled...
...feel quite a lot about a country from the way its people talk to you. In Russia almost everybody was cautious about talking to a stranger. In Finland, right next door, they tell you what they think-even about Russia. Said one Finn, over a weak beer: "It's too bad. Russians are often such fine people individually. We have many things in common; we both like to drink. But get them in a mass and they go crazy...
Highlighting the evening were continual references to plans for the club's tentatively scheduled junket to the Scandinavise countries during the summer of next year. Latest indications are that the singers will spend almost two months abroad, presenting concerts in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands...
...Kingdom of Denmark these days, the beer bottles must have square labels, because the Government decided that oval ones waste too much paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...
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