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Loomed in Finland last week a rival to asparagus-loving Ambassador Walter Evans Edge who has the succulent stalks in which he delights shipped regularly to the U. S. Embassy in Paris from New Jersey asparagus beds (TIME...
...Edward Everett Brodie, the American Minister to Finland, imports all his Irish potatoes from Idaho...
...Finland there has never been seen anything like those potatoes. They come in boxes, each potato wrapped separately in tissue paper, fifties and seventies, ac cording to size, fifties being the larger...
Refreshing Ryti. Conscientious, meticulous. Mr. Knickerbocker states that he does not think Soviet Russia will attack in the near future either Finland or any other country. He discounts the Finnish gas scare 99%, but he hails Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland as "most refreshing . . . after two months' experience of listening to the plaints and pleas of businessmen in other parts of Europe for governmental protection and international protection, but above all for protection by somebody else against Russian dumping...
Ironically Mr. Knickerbocker notes that even fight-minded, lumber-growing Finland bought $2.000.000 worth of Soviet timber last year, although "this, it was explained to me, was nearly all bought by one man, who has been severely criticized for doing...