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...Last week, at Russia's demand, the Finnish Government began to round up several thousand Estonians who had fled from the Russians to Finland. They would be sent to Russia...
...pock-marked airport swooped a big plane with a red star. The first eleven members of the Allied Armistice Control Commission-Russians all-shook hands briefly with Foreign Minister Enckell, started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns looked...
...Finnish armistice terms looked almost as generous as those granted Rumania (TIME, Sept. 25). But Rumania was a comparatively rich country, Finland a comparatively poor one. Reparations (payable in six years) had dropped from the $600 million the Russians demanded last spring to $300 million. The cut was little more than a bookkeeping bow to common sense: Finland would pay the smaller sum, could scarcely hope to pay the bigger one without national bankruptcy. As it was, the yearly reparations payment, payable in kind, not cash, would take from the Finns about half of their total prewar yearly export...
Russia's territorial demands had increased since the spring negotiations. Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich...
Exhausted, shrunken Finland still had to disarm and intern remnants of the German Army, still had crushing domestic problems to settle, still had work and bread to find for her 3.6 million weakened people. But Finland still had her nominal independence...