Word: karelia
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Soviet Russia protested hotly against Finland's bringing the question of East Karelia before the Court. The Court, however, is setting a precedent by hearing the case, although it is supposed to hear cases only by consent of both parties...
...Council of the League of Nations on the application of Finland presented an advisory case concerning the status of East Karelia (labor commune in Russia). The population of East Karelia is largely Finnish; the Finns are anxious to know if the Soviet Government did or did not undertake to make the internal administration of East Karelia an international affair, when it signed the Treaty of Dorpat...