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...Balkans, Luxembourg, The Netherlands) feared to offend him. In France Nazi pressure was in part responsible for some of the post-Munich anti-democratic decrees. Fascism had intervened openly in Spain, had fostered a revolt in Brazil, was covertly aiding revolutionary movements in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania. In Finland a foreign minister had to resign under Nazi pressure. Throughout eastern Europe after Munich the trend was toward less freedom, more dictatorship. In the U. S. alone did democracy feel itself strong enough at year's end to give Hitler his come-uppance...
Jean Sibelius (Sun. 1:30 p.m. NBC-Red, CBS, MBS). Finland's No. 1 composer conducts the Helsingfors Symphony. Finnish President Kyosti Kallio speaks in salute to New York's World's Fair by short wave from Finland...
...Finland's Foreign Minister, Dr. Rudolf Holsti, resigned last week. Official reason: bad health, low pay. Real reason : pressure from Germany because Dr. Holsti, Finnish delegate to the League of Nations, reportedly made uncomplimentary remarks about Führer Adolf Hitler. Baltic observers concluded that Finland, like dismembered Czechoslovakia, can no longer afford to have outspoken anti-Nazis in its Government...
...With Belgium, Haiti, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands and colonies, Switzerland, Honduras, Colombia, France and colonies, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Finland, Costa Rica, Salvador, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador. Special pact: Cuba...
...Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes...