Word: kekkonens
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Parliament, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become Finland's largest party. That raised the question: What would the Russians say about their old enemies? Just about everybody in Helsinki is convinced that what the Russians told Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen was that the Social Democrats could form a Cabinet, but only if they included Finland's Red comrades...
...sense, the vote was a rebuke to President Urho K. Kekkonen, 65' two-time chief executive and five-time Premier, whose open courting of Soviet good will rankles many Finns, who remember two bitter wars against the Russians. But more important, the vote was an indication of the country's changing voting pattern: as more people leave farm and forest for jobs in Finland's burgeoning factories, they are switching to the urban-oriented Social Democrats, who rank as a middle-of-the-road party and promise to do something about inflation (up 4% last year...
...Soviet Union's leaders showed no signs of particular unhappiness about the outcome; many of the bitter anti-Communists the Russians objected to have stepped down from party leadership, and the new leader, Rafael Paasio, 63, emphasizes that his party wants good relations with Russia. President Kekkonen was clearly trying to keep everyone happy by calling on the Social Democrats to explore the possibility of forming a coalition government from Finland's seven parties, including the Communists...
...shadow of Soviet guns, Finns must be discreet. Even so, many outspokenly deplore President Kekkonen's servile attitude to Moscow. Kekkonen's attempt to sell Scandinavia Moscow's plan for an atom-free zone in northern Europe was roundly snubbed by the other Nordic countries...
After holding Finnish Cabinet posts ranging from Premier to Foreign Minister, Economist Tuomioja became the Conservative candidate for President in 1956, but lost to Urho Kekkonen. Though antiCommunist, he is married to the daughter of Hella Wuolijoki, a Finnish Communist playwright best known to the U.S. as the author of The Farmer's Daughter, which was made into a 1947 movie and is currently a U.S. television series...