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...line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...
Well aware of what the Peace-&-Friendship Association is up to, the Finnish Government has so far dealt leniently with it, has winked at the fact that it is openly Communist, although the Communist Party is outlawed. In his speech on foreign policy last fortnight, Russia's Premier Molotov declared: "Serious deterioration of Finnish-Soviet relations may be expected if the Finns continue to persecute Soviet sympathizers...
Last week President Otto Kuusinen of last December's abortive Finnish People's Republic was elected a vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the U. S. S. R., and it was a good bet that he would be head of the 18th Soviet State before frost comes to Finland again...
When the U. S. pulp markets lost access to Swedish and Finnish pulp, prices zoomed. Unbleached sultite rose from $40-42 a ton at the end of 1939 to $50 in 1940's first quarter, to $63-50-$67.50 last week. Although the 1,235,000 tons of chemical (sulfite and sulfate) pulp which the U. S. imported from the northern countries last year were only a quarter of U. S. domestic production, they played a disproportionately large part in fixing pulp's market price, because most domestic pulp is used by the same integrated paper mills that...
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