Word: terijoki
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Peace was indeed being discussed between the belligerents. And the world laughed at the one joke which emerged from a grim week: Joseph Stalin had established contact with Helsinki's Government-which he had said did not exist; it had been "overthrown" by the revolt of the Terijoki People's Government...
...that the Finnish delegation was on its way home to win Parliamentary approval. The new demands were said to be considerably easier: Viipuri, Sortavala, and Petsamo would not be taken; and instead of Hanko, Uto (halfway between Hanko and the Aland Islands) would do for a naval base; the Terijoki Government would be abandoned...
...Finns did a little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...Union is not in a state of war with Finland and does not threaten the Finnish people with war." On the contrary, maintained Comrade Molotov, "the Soviet Union maintains peaceful relations with the democratic Republic of Finland" -a reference to the puppet Soviet Government the Russians set up at Terijoki, Finland, fortnight ago (TIME...
Surprised by the cleverness of Finland's preparations, Russia's press exploded in wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth. . . . Hardly had the first Red fighter set foot on Finnish soil when an explosion rent the air-a mine! Mines are everywhere." Even the Russian soldiers were indignant. Writer Virta quoted one as saying: "What cads! . . . They are masters of foul play. How well they make such nastiness...