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...made with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...
There was only one item on the agenda last week as seven Finnish Cabinet members gathered in emergency session in Helsinki's Government House: acceptance of a resignation letter written in the shaky hand of President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
...oldest head of state in Europe, Kekkonen governed Finland for well over a third of its 63 years of independence and was a power in the life of his country for nearly half a century. He was the father of a peculiarly Finnish policy that he dubbed "active neutrality" and that his critics scorned as "Finlandization." In essence, Kekkonen blended Finland's foreign policy with Moscow's, endorsing a Soviet-promoted nuclear-free zone in Scandinavia, refusing to criticize the invasion of Afghanistan and keeping silent on Soviet human rights abuses in Eastern Europe. In turn, Moscow allowed...
...early as 1943, Kekkonen suggested that Finnish welfare depended on "neighborly relations with the hereditary enemy" in Moscow. His line was picked up by Kekkonen's presidential predecessor, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, who made it the basis of Finnish postwar neutrality after the Soviets forced a special "friendship treaty" on Finland in 1948. Kekkonen served five times as Paasikivi's Prime Minister in shaky coalition governments from...
...book, so I would lie and say things like 'It means peace in Finnish.' But gradually it got out what it meant and people were not so approving...