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...Molla Mallory is a native of Norway and an American citizen by marriage. Both Norway and the U. S. claim her for their respective Olympic tennis teams. Precedent is cited: Hannes Kolehmainen, distance runner, American citizen, returned to his native Finland under whose colors he competed in the 1920 Olympics. Although Mrs. Mallory is said unofficially to have stated her preference for the red, the white and the blue, she refused to go on record. "I have nothing to say about it at all. I never give interviews...
...foreign debtors to the U. S., only three have paid or settled the terms of payment for their debts. They are: Cuba, Finland, Great Britain...
...however, and leaving a handsome balance in the Government Treasury with which to end the fiscal year, he sailed for Europe on the Majestic. Abroad his arrival is anticipated with no little speculation. The United States is Europe's great creditor. Of all the European nations only England and Finland have made agreements for paying their debts to this country. "What now?"; asks Europe. And the Dusseldorfer Mittag headlined: "Mellon ? The Savior...
Soviet Russia protested hotly against Finland's bringing the question of East Karelia before the Court. The Court, however, is setting a precedent by hearing the case, although it is supposed to hear cases only by consent of both parties...
...Council of the League of Nations on the application of Finland presented an advisory case concerning the status of East Karelia (labor commune in Russia). The population of East Karelia is largely Finnish; the Finns are anxious to know if the Soviet Government did or did not undertake to make the internal administration of East Karelia an international affair, when it signed the Treaty of Dorpat...