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Urbane, luxury-loving Alexandra Mihailovna Kollontay (rhymes with O-lone-tie) had known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
Woman of Talents. Stockholm society knows Mme. Kollontay as a slightly reconstructed aristocrat, an unusual linguist, a superb hostess. Her chinchilla cape makes women's eyes dilate; her little dinners make gourmets' eyes contract. As Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, where she has been stationed since 1930, she practices diplomacy with patience, wit and sagacity...
...Kollontay has had to spend most of the past year in Mosseberg sanatorium, gaining strength after a stroke. Last Nov. 7, when the Russian Revolution which she helped to make was 26 years old, a river of people took 45 minutes to flow up the legation's broad stairway and pass Her Excellency in her wheelchair. About once a year a rumor spreads that Kollontay has been summoned home to answer for her sumptuous way of life. Just as often she has returned to her villa in the Villagatan. A lovely holiday, she blandly reports...
...Communists. . . . Fear of Russian intentions after the war is a dominant note as an Allied victory seems more certain. . . . The situation would be worse were it not for the presence in Stockholm during the past decade of one of the most remarkable, yet little known, figures in Europe: Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Stockholm and first fully accredited woman diplomat in modern times. One of the last of the old Bolsheviks except Stalin, her very existence is miraculous. At the Mössebergh sanatorium she is recovering from the effects of a mild stroke with a magnificent will, determined...
Friday. The Copenhagen Ekstrabladet reported that Soviet Minister to Sweden Alexandra Kollontay had got in touch with Finnish Minister to Sweden Eljas Erkko...