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...Soviet Union, whose recent acquisitions include Finnish nickel, Lithuanian butter, Estonian cellulose, Tannu Tuvan asbestos, last week marched on to pistachio nuts...
Things actually began better than anyone had hoped. In the first five minutes Molotov agreed to let Host Georges Bidault discuss the Finnish and Balkan treaties-the very issue that had broken up the Foreign Ministers' meeting at London last autumn. Next Molotov budged a little from Russia's insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000 in reparations; he helped pick a committee to decide what Italy could pay. In the sessions that followed he made a series of small concessions on the Italian peace treaty...
...been tried, under special retroactive legislation, for "contributing to Finland's entry into the war on Germany's side." Twelve Finns had tried for 19 days to reach a verdict, with Russia impatiently looking over their shoulders. Last week, the tribunal announced a verdict of guilty. The Finnish court had obviously shared worldwide doubts on whether the responsibility for war was a crime. In relation to the charge, the sentences were fantastically light. Ryti and his colleagues would serve an average of 4.8 years at hard labor. Finland's answer to the question: Is it a crime...
They went abroad together for the first time in the fall of 1939 as the German Wehrmacht was slicing up Poland. Shelley worked in Sweden while her husband photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
...very critically minded as far as the Soviet Union is concerned. As long as the Russians think it is right to conquer a neighbor's territory, such as Karelia [once Finnish], but do not permit Germany to make conquests, I cannot collaborate with them. One cannot treat the matter as if nothing has happened, and I'll have nothing to do with the Soviet Union...