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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...
Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...Reader Blakemore graciously introduced People's (and Pepsi's) Joan Crawford to World's Khrushchev and Kekkonen with the help of scissors, paste and imagination...
...fanfare. Since the Yugoslavs do not unfurl foreign flags along the new autoput that leads from the airport to the city except for a visiting chief of state. Rusk's route was lined with blue-and-white Finnish banners in place for President Urho K. Kekkonen's arrival next day. There were no crowds at all, since the Yugoslavs did not bother to announce Rusk's trip in advance...
Moscow was furious, the Finns were defiant, and the festival had all the makings of a serious international incident. Clearly it was up to nimble neutralist President Kekkonen (who has two cars in his garage, a Cadillac and a ZIS) to say he was sorry about the whole thing. Sternly he denounced the "irresponsible behavior of youth circles in the capital." Irresponsible or not, Finnish youth had revealed the ingrained anti-Russian bitterness that lies beneath the veneer of Finnish neutrality. It is a vivid memory that many of the delegates will be taking home with them when the festival...