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Under the pragmatic foreign policy of President Urho Kekkonen, which is based on maintaining smooth relations with the Soviets, Communists have served in coalition governments since 1966. One branch of the party advocates a moderate "peaceful road" to Communist rule, but a hard-line faction insists on waging a "class-conscious fight against big capital." The rest of the nation, which remembers all too well that the Communists were caught plotting a coup in 1948, still takes the hardliners' threats more than half seriously. Last week, in a demonstration of their increased militancy, the tough faction incited workers...
Though it sounds like a rural rail route, the Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line is in fact the name of the foreign policy that has guided Finland since World War II: seeking accommodation with its mighty eastern neighbor, the Soviet Union. In pursuit of this policy, Finnish President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 69, flew to Moscow last week for the 16th time since he became Finland's head of state in 1956. This week, in keeping with his country's enduring but slightly off-balance neutrality, he will make his second state visit to the U.S. to discuss such matters...
Last week Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander, a major supporter of Nordek, met at his country estate with President Urho Kekkonen and Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto of Finland. Their decision-to push ahead with the year-old negotiations to bring Nordek into being-reflected a realization that, despite Charles de Gaulle's departure, Europe is far from becoming one grand market...
...neighbor. Recently Rumania, Yugoslavia, West Germany and Austria have all received the treatment. This time it was Finland's turn. On the same day that Izvestia charged that West Germany was menacing Finland, who should arrive for a three-day visit but Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Afterward President Urho Kekkonen tried to reassure the Finns that the Russian premier had come only to allay any Finnish uneasiness...
...Zero Treks. The war took a heavy toll. Finland lost 115,000 men (nearly 3% of its population), also had to pay Russia huge reparations and cede part of its land. The losses taught Finland a lesson. President Urho Kekkonen, now serving his eleventh year in that post, realized that his country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin...