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...Hammarskjold, seeing an opportunity to exert the U.N.'s tranquilizing influence, was quick to turn the U.S. dilemma to account. With U.S. blessing-and only pro forma Russian protests-Hammarskjold, on his own, sent Finland's Sakari Tuomioja to provide a U.N. "presence" in Laos and to look into ways of bringing U.N. help to the Laotian economy. The unspoken condition of U.N. intervention-Laotian neutrality-struck the U.S. as a reasonable price to pay for peace in Southeast Asia...
...replied that "all Laos' friends will rejoice in that statement." Five days later, having thus made it clear that he was not on hand to disturb Laotian neutrality (which was imposed by the 1954 Geneva agreement), Hammarskjold was able to proceed with his plan. He invited Economics Expert Sakari Tuomioja, conservative-minded onetime Premier of Finland, to go to Laos as the Secretary-General's personal representative...
Finland last week had a new government, its fifth in 3½ years. The Premier was Sakari Tuomioja, 42. a cigar-puffing banker who was once stenographer to the Finnish Diet. His Cabinet is the most conservative since World War II. But it is only a caretaker government until the next election, probably in March. Tuomioja's real significance is that he plans to run the country without the help of ex-Premier Urho Kekkonen, the able, unpopular Agrarian who has bossed every Finnish cabinet since...
...delegation which signed a treaty with the U.S.S.R. last month. Stalin, dressed in the grey uniform of a Soviet marshal, offered the Finns cigars, expressing regret that they were of Russian make and therefore no good, Russia having made cigars such a short while. Minister of Trade and Industry Sakari S. Tuomioja replied that they were not the best, but quite good nevertheless. A longish argument on the subject of cigars ensued, into which Premier Urho K. Kekkonen entered, saying, "Tuomioja defends his opinions faithfully." Said Stalin, eyes twinkling, "Like all Finns...