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...Allow me to express my astonishment at seeing in theaters and other places marble tablets and bronze plates immortalizing Finnish soldiers and officers fallen in wars against Soviet Russia. These memorials are inscribed 'Pro Patria.' This is contrary to the truth...
...strike of metalworkers would hold a special danger for Finland: it might delay delivery of Finnish reparations to Russia. That, explained Premier Fagerholm last week, was what the Communists wanted; delay might give Russia an excuse to "intervene" under terms of the peace treaty...
...looked as though Finland's time had come once more. It was the only country on Russia's European border that had not yet been reduced to satellite status; since war's end, the doughty Finns had lived uneasily on Russian "tolerance." Last week, the Finnish Communists made a bid for power...
...sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The police first tossed a few tear-gas grenades, but when a fresh breeze dispersed the gas, they started shooting as the crowd kept on coming. Two workers were killed. Troops from a nearby garrison finally restored order. The riot's Communist ringleader was put in jail, where he promptly went...
...senator had a practical suggestion: why not let Finland use all future payments (about $400,000 a year) to send Finnish students to the U.S. and U.S. technicians to Finland? That was much like what the U.S. had done for China after the Boxer Rebellion. Last week, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee said O.K., got the Smith resolution over its first congressional hurdle...