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...though he sees clearly enough on such big points, Chairman Connally is hampered by a vast lack of erudition. He has no real foreign policy himself; he has not attempted to think his way through the problem of the Polish frontiers; the problem of Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...
...known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
...Finland must: break relations with Germany, intern Nazi troops and ships, calling for Russian help if necessary (as it probably would be); restore the 1940 frontier and agreement with Russia; release all Russian and Allied prisoners and internees. Reparations due Russia, demobilization of the Finnish Army and the future of the port of Petsamo on the Arctic may be discussed in Moscow later. At week's end, the Finns were still thinking it over...
...Middle. In Stockholm, Sweden, in the barbershop of the Grand Hotel, there was a deadly silence as three men sat side by side. On one side was British Correspondent Ossian Goulding; on the other, a German Legation attaché. In the middle was Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finland's possible peace negotiator...
After the invasion of Russia, the Germans formed two corporations for a continent-wide exploitation of the fast-growing herb. They transplanted kok-sagyz to Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the Balkans. Best results were obtained along the Danube. Now that blockaders are sinking more & more rubber-runners from Japan, and bombers are drastically cutting buna-S production at home, kok-sagyz from Russia is paying off for the Nazis...