Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Finn knew only that the vote meant more bloodshed, more hardship...
Urbane, luxury-loving Alexandra Mihailovna Kollontay (rhymes with O-lone-tie) had known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
...present boss, Finance Minister Vaino Tanner, admirer of Hitler and strong man of Finnish politics. Elder Statesman Voionmaa demanded peace with Russia on the best terms Russia would give, the resignation of the Government, the appointment of patient old (73) Juho Kusti Paasikivi as Premier. Paasikivi is one Finn who knows how to talk business with Stalin. Voionmaa was present when Paasikivi as Foreign Minister went to Moscow (via Stockholm) to negotiate the peace at the end of the Russian invasion...
...Finland the clock stands at 5 minutes to 12. Every Finn knows that the war must end with Germany and Finland the losers. Like characters in a Greek tragedy, foreseeing their own destruction but unwilling or unable to lift a hand to stay their fate, the Finns hold to their stand toward Russia: peace only on conditions satisfactory to Finland...
Daley once admired Con the Greyhound for giving the wind a head start and then beating it, and Shaun the Bullock, who could hold himself out at arm's length. But Finn was faster than one, stronger and defter than the other. Concluded Daley: "Bad cess to those who doubt...