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...Finnish presidential election campaign was accompanied by threats and rumblings from Finland's massive neighbor, Russia. Last week the phlegmatic Finns ignored the threats, gave a vote of confidence to tough, 79-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, the symbol of their independence. When the presidential electors meet on February 15, Paasikivi can count on 171 votes. The Communists made gains in the popular vote, but won only about 22% of the electoral vote. Paasikivi will form a new government on March 1, probably a coalition of all non-Communist parties...
...election over, Paasikivi sent off a stiff answer to the month-old Russian note accusing Finland of harboring Soviet "war criminals." Finland, said Paasikivi, "is entitled to reject categorically the assertions that Finnish authorities have supplied war criminals with faked documents...
...chances of the Finnish Communist Party at the polls; 2) Russia is ready to take a more direct hand in the affairs of its little neighbor. Explained one Finnish official cautiously: "The Gromyko note is Russia's way of protesting against the Social Democratic government and [conservative] Paasikivi as presidential candidate...
Ostensibly, the strikes were to be for high wages; actually, the Communists' obvious aim was to force their way back into the government (from which a crushing electoral defeat had dislodged them in July 1948). But President Juho Paasikivi's Social Democratic government was ready for the Communist attack...
...will of the people will be the deciding factor," President Paasikivi had promised the two million Finns who trooped quietly to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...