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...Helsinki last week, Soviet Ambassador Grigory Savenenkov entertained the Finnish cabinet at a showing of a Russian movie suggestively entitled Song of Siberia. That was merely one move in the week's kid-glove test of strength...
...Helsinki, Finland's Parliament, by a vote of 157 to 11, ratified the Soviet-Finnish mutual aid treaty (TIME, April 19) that Finns had not wanted...
Last week Finland's aging (78), anxious President Juho K. Paasikivi summoned editors of Helsinki's principal newspapers to the Presidential Palace, handed them a news item and an earnest exhortation. The news was the text of Finland's unwanted treaty of "mutual aid" with the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow's Kremlin. The exhortation: sugar-coat the news in order to minimize anti-Russian feeling among Finns...
...Twice in Helsinki last week Finns were ominously reminded of Czechoslovakia...
While they waited, Easter came, a warm, lovely day. In Helsinki thousands of Finns strolled around the Esplanade gardens. They watched the ceremonial changing of the guard at the Presidential Palace, and grinned appreciatively as the guardsmen marched down the Esplanade while the band played The Stars and Stripes Forever...