Word: finlandized
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...Finland's turn came; then Denmark, Norway. Isolationists might dispute the trend, but signs multiplied that public sentiment had grown by leaps & bounds in favor of the President's policy (still unannounced) of giving the Allies every aid short...
present native folklore, songs, dances). The Netherlands also pulled out (before Hitler invaded). Finland returned (with Finnish pancakes, photographs depicting the Russian rape). So did Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (with exhibits financed by their nationals in the U. S.). France, Great Britain altered some of their displays, turning them into restrained propaganda for U. S. sympathy. Belgium opened its impressive building on schedule. But Commissar General Joseph Gevaert postponed his speech, said he preferred to wait until fighting words are in order...
...symphonies and tone-poems, there are passages of a woodwind complexion, of a curious rough-hewn quality, which have been traditionally seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe a richness and a warmth such as cold water never did or could have, but which ripe heady wine always...
...There Shall Be No Night" (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by The Playwrights'Company and The Theatre Guild). In a timely and indignant mood Robert Sherwood has dramatized the story of the invasion of Finland. He has dramatized it simply, in terms of what happens to one Finnish family-a Nobel-Prize-winner, his U. S.-born wife, their youthful son. There is not very much action, most of the play consists of speeches-some of them eloquent, some inflammatory, some confused...
Kaarlo Valkonen (Alfred Lunt) is a scientist strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...