Word: urho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talent as a gracious host. Already this year, the President has welcomed, feted -and in most cases, charmed-more than 150 special foreign guests, ranging from heads of state to ambassadors. Last week the President rolled out the red carpet for two visitors: Finland's President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 61, and Liberia's President William V. S. Tubman...
Locked in a virtual Russian bear hug by geography and two valiant but lost wars, the Finns have kept a delicate independence by what President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 60, has called the ability "to live on fine distinctions." Last week, in one of the Finns' finest distinctions yet, representatives of Western Europe's economic Outer Seven gathered in Helsinki's Smolna Palace to sign a treaty with Finland creating the Finland Association-a legal fiction that enables Finland to be a part of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) and share in the benefits of its lower...
When Britain set out to counter the six-nation European Common Market with a European free-trade area of its own-knitting together the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria-Finland badly wanted to join to make this Outer Seven an Outer Eight. But President Urho Kekkonen, a longtime neutralist who stoutly insists that Finland's future must be based on Soviet-Finnish "friendship," said nothing doing. Russia, Kekkonen argued, would be displeased if Finland participated in a non-Communist trade bloc...
...Finns, who defended their independence through two gallant, losing wars with Russia, have also found it hard to stand up against their giant neighbor in time of peace. Last year their President Urho Kekkonen shocked many Finns by letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following an election in which the Communists captured 50 of 200 parliamentary seats and emerged as the strongest single party, the republic's anti-Communist forces banded together to form a five-party coalition government. Flouting its postwar treaty pledge of "noninterference in other states' affairs," Moscow brought economic pressure...
Though President Urho Kekkonen continues to keep up perfectly correct ties with the powerful Soviet neighbor (and last May accepted a $50 million low-interest credit during a visit to Moscow), the Communists are not likely to be asked to form the new government even join it. The great majority of Finns remain deeply antiCommunist. "Raw or cooked," runs an old Finnish saying, "the Russian tastes the same." After last week's vote, Helsinki newspapers called for the half-dozen non-Communist parties to form a patriots' regime that will balance the economy and so keep Finland free...