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Parliament, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become Finland's largest party. That raised the question: What would the Russians say about their old enemies? Just about everybody in Helsinki is convinced that what the Russians told Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen was that the Social Democrats could form a Cabinet, but only if they included Finland's Red comrades...
...sense, the vote was a rebuke to President Urho K. Kekkonen, 65' two-time chief executive and five-time Premier, whose open courting of Soviet good will rankles many Finns, who remember two bitter wars against the Russians. But more important, the vote was an indication of the country's changing voting pattern: as more people leave farm and forest for jobs in Finland's burgeoning factories, they are switching to the urban-oriented Social Democrats, who rank as a middle-of-the-road party and promise to do something about inflation (up 4% last year...
After holding Finnish Cabinet posts ranging from Premier to Foreign Minister, Economist Tuomioja became the Conservative candidate for President in 1956, but lost to Urho Kekkonen. Though antiCommunist, he is married to the daughter of Hella Wuolijoki, a Finnish Communist playwright best known to the U.S. as the author of The Farmer's Daughter, which was made into a 1947 movie and is currently a U.S. television series...
Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...fanfare. Since the Yugoslavs do not unfurl foreign flags along the new autoput that leads from the airport to the city except for a visiting chief of state. Rusk's route was lined with blue-and-white Finnish banners in place for President Urho K. Kekkonen's arrival next day. There were no crowds at all, since the Yugoslavs did not bother to announce Rusk's trip in advance...