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UNFUNDED France $4,210 Italy 2,138 Belgium 480 Russia 225 Czecho-Slovakia 118 Yugo-Slavia 65 Rumania 46 Austria 30 Esthonia 18 Greece 18 Armenia 15 Latvia 6 $7,369 FUNDED Great Britain $4,554 Poland 178 Finland 9 Lithuania 6 Hungary...
When Nurmi first came to this country, it was hoped that he might promoto a closer harmony and a deeper mutual appreciation between the United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
...These are the countries which have recognized the Bolshevik Government given in order of recognition: Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Austria, Greece, Sweden, China, Denmark, Mexico, Hungary, France, Japan...
...Three treaties for extradition of criminals, two of them general: 1) with Rumania, 2) with Finland; and a special convention with Great Britain regarding violators of the narcotic laws...
Population. The 1924 population was 75% of that of Tsarist Russia, the loss being accounted for by the loss of Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and east Poland...