Word: tanner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of needed supplies. Heading this list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More to keep Finland's slate clean than through any hope of success, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner appealed to Russia's Premier V. M. Molotov by radio (the only medium by which he can address him), offering Russia "even greater concessions...
...National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti. New Foreign Minister was V. A. Tanner, who took part in the recent...
Russo-Finnish negotiations at Moscow, and who can match most Soviet bigshots in proletarian experience. He once worked as a miner in the U. S. The Soviets were not so happy about Minister Tanner; the Soviet radio quickly called him one of the "madmen of Helsinki...
...will of the people, indignant at the criminal policy of the contemptible Government of Cajander, Erkko and Tanner, a new Government of our country-the People's Provisional Government-was formed today in Eastern Finland," begins the declaration...
Bolsheviks & Scandinavians. This was diplomatically crude work, since the negotiations were still supposed to be in the confidential stage. But in Moscow the Finnish Delegation, headed by former Premier Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi and Labor Leader V. A. Tanner, patiently kept the negotiations going and even dined with Dictator Stalin while the whole Scandinavian press began to shriek alarm and mobilized Finland grimly strengthened her defenses. (The overtaxed Finnish National Defense Organization had an inventive brainwave, announced that "by an ingenious device" Finnish dairy separators were being converted quickly into anti-gas purifiers...