Word: helsinki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pravda's vituperation was based on a speech made by Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander in Helsinki in which the Premier advised Finns to plow their fields with their rifles to their shoulders. According to the Russians, the Premier also spoke kindly of how Tsars Alexander I and II had respected Finnish rights and compared the Soviet Union's aggressive policy unfavorably with the Tsars...
...HELSINKI--A Soviet warship, either a destroyer or cruiser, was reported without confirmation tonight to have been sunk by shellfire in a Russian attack by sea and air on Finland's fortress on Hango Peninenia...
...knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
MOSCOW--Negotiations on Russia's military and territorial demands against Finland came to a "definite end" tonight when the Finnish mission left for Helsinki and the Soviet press warned angrily that Finland is "on the brink of ruin...