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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Finland's aging (78), anxious President Juho K. Paasikivi summoned editors of Helsinki's principal newspapers to the Presidential Palace, handed them a news item and an earnest exhortation. The news was the text of Finland's unwanted treaty of "mutual aid" with the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow's Kremlin. The exhortation: sugar-coat the news in order to minimize anti-Russian feeling among Finns...
...more than an hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent. He used no prepared text, for he needed none. In all the world no man knew better than Chiang that China's portion was present pain and future hope. He spoke first of the pain: "I confess seven of the government's best divisions were destroyed in Manchuria. They were my best armies-armies that under my command accomplished the revolutionary campaign with glory...
...gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
...Those who released the document," Salvemini said, "did not delete my signature and also kept signatures of many other persons who signed the primitive draft thinking it was the final text. In addition, it was falsely stated that I was the author of the document of which they had become responsible...
...would never have thought it possible that even Communists and fellow travellers would have recourse to such tricks as publishing a tentative draft as a final document authorized by the man who had drawn up a different final text, and then signing it with names collected under false pretenses," Salvemini insisted...