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...disgrace to the Government of Premier Sunila and a blow to Temperance, most Finnish editors angrily agreed last week, was the first price list of 200 tasty drinkables issued by Finland's State Liquor Stores just 86-days after the country voted down Prohibition...
...Finnish mainland last week the Lapuan or Finnish Fascist revolt that petered out so dismally fortnight ago (TIME, March 14) was punctured last week by the murder of Minna Craucher. Minna Craucher, brilliant, amiable and 40, was a well-known character in Finland. She started her career as a secret agent for the early Soviet Cheka. After the War her house in Helsingfors was a salon for Finnish writers and artists. Dozens of novelists dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement...
Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
They had few provisions, no protection against the blizzard. The little colony subdivided dangerously. Small parties floated away in different directions, most of them toward Finland's greatest enemy, Soviet Russia. After 24 hours the blizzard let up sufficiently for Finnish army planes to take off. They dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been...
...constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better of it as hundreds of their followers quietly deserted and the revolt frittered...