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...payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius, 83, called off his trip to the U.S. because "my health will not permit...
...Pravda ominously reminded the Finns that they had received their national independence from the Soviet Union in 1917, and that "further consolidation of their state sovereignty ... is possible only by carrying out a policy of sincere friendship with the Soviet Union." Added Leningradskaya Pravda: "The anti-popular activity of Finnish reactionaries is inspired by overseas reaction. Finland is within the orbit of the keen attention of Anglo-American imperialists who are hoping to draw [her] into a contemplated anti-Soviet military bloc...
...Finnish Communists were busily echoing the Moscow propaganda. Busiest of all was Comrade Hertta Kuusinen, who last fall left her Communist husband, former Interior Minister Yrjö Leino, for his alleged Titoist leanings. Hertta is rapidly emerging as the leader of Finnish Communism. Washington guessed that Russia's propaganda offensive was designed chiefly to help Hertta and her comrades, tossed out of Finland's government last summer, to get back into power again...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...