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...lavish caviar & champagne banquet, attended by all the top Soviet brass, Moscow last week honored visiting Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen. The Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet...
...Pakistan had come to a near-standstill. All of East Pakistan's exports & imports, shut out from India, had to go through Chittagong, an overgrown fishing village with a commercial façade. Determined to transform Chittagong into a major port, the government hired Hans Hansen, a Finnish-born American citizen, who was a stevedore before the war. Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading. His job is a shining, rare example of Point Four...
Faint Damns. Committee Counsel Edward Morgan pointed out that Lattimore had helped raise money for Finland during the Soviet-Finnish war and had also supported the Marshall Plan, but Witness Budenz seemed not to be impressed. Exemptions from the party line were granted to people "in delicate positions," he said. He also had his own explanation of the Worker's criticism of Lattimore's recent book, Situation in Asia: "It is a policy to praise them with faint damns. We have this method used on a number of distinguished men, who if praised too closely would simply...
...National Students Association is planning the following work camp tours: Finland, Norway, Denmark; England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark; England, Yougoslavia; Denmark; Poland, Finland. Also, the following work camps are planned: British Harvest Camps, Germany, Finnish Lumber Camp, France, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe. The costs of the workcamp tours range from $454 to $505, the workcamps from...
...bidder for self-improvement this year is Finland. Long worried about their manners, particularly the knife-brandishing belligerence of Finnish drunks, the Finns last month stepped up their courtesy campaign. Run by the serious "Citizens' Good Behavior Organization," the drive is aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy...