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Axel Astrom, Finnish Minister at Washington, walked into the office of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and handed him a check for $9,132. After that, Finland owed the United States just an even $9,000,000. During the next 62 years other Finnish ministers expect to walk in with other checks covering the balance...
...Government of Finland was authorized through its President, Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, to arrange the funding of Finland's debt to the United States, according to the terms laid down in the tentative agreement reached with the American Debt Funding Commission by the Finnish Minister at Washington...
...amount of the debt, inclusive of interest to Nov. 15, 1922, is $9,294,362. The terms under which Finland will repay her indebtedness are similar to those granted to Britain...
...Finland, paying her debts. [Together with Great Britain and Czechoslovakia, she may make this custom fashionable once more...
...Parliament of Finland rejected a proposal to permit the people to decide through a referendum the continuance of prohibition. At present Finland is the only country in the world which is entirely dry?except the United States...