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...emerged in 1939 heart-whole and fancy free. In Moscow Tuure's political star had faded, but in Finland a scholarly young saboteur named Yrjö Leino soon caught Hertta's attention. In 1945, after years of close friendship, Hertta married Yrjö. "I wasn't able to before," she explained, "because of our being in jail." Leino went on to become Finland's Communist Minister of the Interior...
...daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next to Ana Pauker she was probably the leading woman Communist in Europe. By last week...
...Finland's Hertta Kuusinen, a smooth intellectual, now Minister Without Portfolio, and wife of Communist Yrjo Leino, whom she dominates. Hertta got her Communism from her father Otto Kuusinen, a party veteran...
...consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking part...
...another move, aging President, Juho K. Paasikivi had ousted Communist Interior Minister Yrjo Leino. Elections were coming and Finns who remembered Czechoslovakia did not want a Red running the police. To force the government's hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves...