Word: torni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army men and Russian political experts were quartered in the turreted Hotel Torni, the plushy Societetshuset and the old Estonian Legation in swank Brunnsparken. They raced around Helsinki in Russian autos. Their boss was smart, rugged Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Leningrad's Communist chief and Stalin's heir apparent. In the thick of last week's crisis, General Zhdanov suddenly zoomed off to Moscow, then zoomed back, presumably bringing Stalin's latest word to the Finns. What it might be Finns would soon find...
...walked into the press room of the Hotel Torni the afternoon of our break with Finland. A taciturn, potbellied, elderly German 'journalist,' Friedrich Borchman, vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Association, was playing chess. Borchman's main job is watching other German journalists for the Gestapo...
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