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Fortnight ago, Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen barely escaped a crushing bear hug, won postponement of "military talks" with Moscow. Last week the price of the respite became clearer: a move to silence Finland's anti-öCommunists...
...Finland's parties agree that, in foreign affairs, the country's only hope is friendly neutrality toward Russia, but domestically, there is strong opposition to Communism-particularly by Vainö Tanner's Social Democrats. Aiming his words directly at the Social Democrats, Kekkonen demanded that his political opponents retire permanently from public life. Said he: "We have been repeatedly reminded of what our national interests require, and it is time to put an end to an unrealistic attitude which has already led its adherents to a dead end. As they leave the scene, they know that they...
Still combining pleasantries with threats, Khrushchev turned from local farm conditions to international politics, met for luncheon near the booming Siberian industrial city of Novosibirsk with Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, who had traveled 2,380 miles by auto, train and jet to find out whether his country's delicate neutrality was about to be shattered...
Changing Tunes. The ominous-sounding speech suggested that Russia would demand a degree of political or military surrender from the Finns. But next day Khrushchev relaxed his muscle, granted Kekkonen's request for an indefinite postponement of the joint military consultations. In the meantime, Kekkonen's chief rival for the presidency in next year's elections withdrew from the race, assuring Kekkonen of another six-year term as chief of state. This may have been the Kremlin's goal all along, for in the past Khrushchev has usually found Kekkonen's nimble neutrality satisfactory enough...
President Urho K. Kekkonen. winding up an 18-day official visit to the U.S.. got the news in Hawaii, calmly talked it over on the beach, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Helsinki ahead of schedule. Then he donned a pair of fire-red bathing trunks and went...