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TIME (June 26) says that Finnish Minister Procope "represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S." Surely you must know that Finland never had any such debt to pay back...
...fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating Finance Minister Väinö Tanner, strong man of Finnish politics and long the leader of Finland's fight-to-the-finish school. The battle in the Cabinet was so close that Ryti decided against submitting the proposal to the Finnish Diet. Instead he used his wartime power -never invoked before-to send a binding letter to Adolf Hitler...
Technique of Befuddlement. German propaganda, playing skillfully on rooted Finnish fears, had persuaded the people that they must fight or let the Russians cut their throats and ravage their country. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Scott from Helsinki...
...took lunch today with Finnish friends, a sergeant who is leaving this afternoon for the front, and his wife. I asked how long he thought the Finns would fight. He said: 'As long as there is one of us left. Now we either die or we make peace and all men able to work will be sent to Siberia to dig canals while our wives are herded into collective farms.' His wife was expecting a child. She remonstrated: 'You are talking nonsense from the German radio. We must make peace. The Russians...
Born. To Hjalmar Johan Procope, 54, just-deported Finnish Minister to the U.S. (TIME, June 26); and Margaret Shaw Procope, 33, his British-born wife, who was given permission to remain in the U.S. for the birth: their third child, a son; in Washington. Weight...