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...Finnish presidential election campaign was accompanied by threats and rumblings from Finland's massive neighbor, Russia. Last week the phlegmatic Finns ignored the threats, gave a vote of confidence to tough, 79-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, the symbol of their independence. When the presidential electors meet on February 15, Paasikivi can count on 171 votes. The Communists made gains in the popular vote, but won only about 22% of the electoral vote. Paasikivi will form a new government on March 1, probably a coalition of all non-Communist parties...
...election over, Paasikivi sent off a stiff answer to the month-old Russian note accusing Finland of harboring Soviet "war criminals." Finland, said Paasikivi, "is entitled to reject categorically the assertions that Finnish authorities have supplied war criminals with faked documents...
...Gromyko note meant one of two things: 1) the Russians are trying to better the chances of the Finnish Communist Party at the polls; 2) Russia is ready to take a more direct hand in the affairs of its little neighbor. Explained one Finnish official cautiously: "The Gromyko note is Russia's way of protesting against the Social Democratic government and [conservative] Paasikivi as presidential candidate...
...These men fell in a war of conquest started by the Finnish policy of conquest . . . This is the historical truth...
...National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki...