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Among the rolling hills of the birch-covered Province of Finnmark is the little (pop. 4,000) town of Kirkenes. Kirkenes sits snugly on one of the richest deposits of iron ore in all Norway. Saturnine, bespectacled Gotfred Hoelvold sits smugly on Kirkenes. Respected citizens of the village bow politely when they meet Gotfred on the street, and whisper uneasily when he has passed by. Policemen salute him with obsequious care. Even the Norwegian army garrison is obliged to seek out Gotfred for help from time to time...
...Price of Butter. Finland suffers war's inevitable inflation and the lowering of living standards. The Finnmark is officially valued at about one-fifth its prewar (2?) value. But its actual value is about one-tenth. By official statistics, Finnish taxes are almost seven times higher than in 1935. In the U.S. meaning of the word, almost all Finns are workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over...
...Their Sturdy Gait. Finland is a country of free speech. The joke I heard most often concerns the 1,000-Finnmark note. On this large, lavender note a group of Finns-men, women & children, all naked-are pictured facing a body of water. There is no ship in the picture, but the presence of one is suggested by a large mooring hawser the people are holding. The Finns delighted in telling me that this "symbolizes Finland in 1952, gazing at the last shipload of reparations leaving for Russia...
...pawn to be attached to Italy or Yugoslavia. It had long been an important link between central Europe and the Mediterranean. Now it lay at the southwestern end of Russia's new area of power, 1,700 miles across Europe from the northernmost end in Norway's Finnmark. Most of the 250,000 Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio's Fiume. Italy after the last war presented the peacemakers with...
...Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, while calling back over his shoulder to his countrymen to resist to the last. But Norse loyalists insisted that their King would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those of his son, Crown Prince Olav, depended the immediate fate of Norway's Boyg and the completeness of the Falkenhorst conquest...