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Last week President Juho K. Paasikivi named his negotiators for the Russian pact. Four were proCommunists, but three had said that they opposed a military alliance with Russia. To those delegates reluctant to make the humiliating Kremlin visit, Paasikivi said: "There is no question of whether you have any desire to do this or that. This is compulsory labor...
Other parties felt bewildered and let down; hence the week's real surprise came Friday when they stuck to their guns, and Agrarians, Liberals and Conservatives, controlling 86 of the 200 parliamentary votes, notified President Paasikivi that they opposed treaty negotiations with Russia. Considering Finland's geographical and political position, these 86 showed plenty of courage...
After Czechoslovakia, Finns thought their turn had come. Last week, Finland's aging (77) President Juho Kusti Paasikivi received a handwritten letter in the scrawling script of Stalin. It was a polite but imperative summons which Finns construed as the end of their uneasy, nominal independence...
Said , bulletheaded, 76-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, who still swims in the ice-cold bay beneath his villa and who admires solid sculpture: "We now have unrationed meat, and it has worked very well. The farmers get higher prices. Our crop in 1946 was 63% of prewar, but it should be up to 70% for 1947-and remember we lost 12% of our arable land under the treaty. We are expanding industrial production. Our Communists are sometimes noisy but so far they have not succeeded in forcing nationalization beyond the point of maximum effectiveness...
...Finnish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee wanted to join the "Marshall approach" discussions in Paris, but President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...