Word: neighborship
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Taking its cue from Swedish reactions, the Russian press this week proclaimed Russian good neighborship in the North, prepared to welcome cordially a three-man Swedish trade delegation (going to Moscow for new markets, raw materials to replace those lost in the West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland...
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