Word: finlandization
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...Finland, which last fall showed more spunk than the rest of the Baltic countries put together, was in line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...
...last December's abortive Finnish People's Republic was elected a vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the U. S. S. R., and it was a good bet that he would be head of the 18th Soviet State before frost comes to Finland again...
...from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen) and his equally eminent wife, Dr. Enid Charles...
Having made his grab of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that...
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...