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Died. Mauno Pekkala, 62, postwar Premier of Finland (1946-48), who negotiated the hated mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union; of pneumonia following a stroke; in Helsinki. He won national recognition for his work as acting director (1937-44) of the state forest service, less favorable notice for his latter-day fellow-traveling with the Reds...
Over Finland's state-controlled radio Paasikivi himself set the sugary tone. Said he: "We can look with confidence toward the future." In Moscow, Prime Minister Pekkala had already thanked the Soviet Union for its "benevolent attitude." Editors and politicians took the official cue. Finland, which had wanted no treaty at all, found itself rejoicing at having made the "best possible deal under the circumstances...
These somber omens overhung the Moscow talks on Finland's future. Last week the Kremlin sent a special plane to fetch ailing Finnish Premier Mauno Pekkala, to join the Finnish mission negotiating a "friendship" pact. Finns feared the worst...
Finns who thought of Prague could guess what "conditions for a radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
Wall-eyed pike, 15 lb. 2 oz., Burntside Lake, T. J. Pekkala, Ely, Minn...
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