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...disgrace to the Government of Premier Sunila and a blow to Temperance, most Finnish editors angrily agreed last week, was the first price list of 200 tasty drinkables issued by Finland's State Liquor Stores just 86-days after the country voted down Prohibition...
...Helsinki, though editorial pages roasted the Government, great and jubilant headlines heralded the arrival last week of hard liquor (the kind Finns like) in huge quantities. Cried the Most Reverend Archbishop Ingman: '"Not even the first cargoes of American grain which arrived in starving Finland at Christmas time in 1918 aroused such excitement as these present imports of 'legal liquor' into a country already full of illegal liquor. . . . Touching the assertion that the State will derive some benefit from these liquor sales it is my solemn duty to warn the Finnish people against attempting to employ Beelzebub...
That, precisely, was what Premier Sunila was trying to do last week by offering the public hardest liquor at cut rates. He hoped to undercut, ruin and drive out of Finland her entrenched and wealthy liquor smugglers...
From now on it will be Beelzebub against Satan until smuggling ceases and the Government obtains an. actual liquor monopoly - after which hard liquor prices will be upped, consumption of light wines encouraged in Finland (as in Sweden...
...Weimar the most striking floral tribute, everyone agreed last week, was an enormous sheaf of real Greek olive branches laid on Goethe's tomb by the representative of Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe...