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...Hungarians are especially interested in Esperanto because their language is so far removed from any other, except Finnish and Estonian. Only two words derived from the Hungarian -goulash and coach-are in common use in English...
Highlighting the meeting were addresses by Douglass Cater '46 and Ewald Mann, former professor of the philosophy of religion in the Estonian Baptist Seminary. Cater reported to the assemblage on the conference of the International Union of Students at Prague last summer...
...Soviet Union, whose recent acquisitions include Finnish nickel, Lithuanian butter, Estonian cellulose, Tannu Tuvan asbestos, last week marched on to pistachio nuts...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
...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...