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Urbane, luxury-loving Alexandra Mihailovna Kollontay (rhymes with O-lone-tie) had known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood...
Kollontay has had to spend most of the past year in Mosseberg sanatorium, gaining strength after a stroke. Last Nov. 7, when the Russian Revolution which she helped to make was 26 years old, a river of people took 45 minutes to flow up the legation's broad stairway...
In the Middle. In Stockholm, Sweden, in the barbershop of the Grand Hotel, there was a deadly silence as three men sat side by side. On one side was British Correspondent Ossian Goulding; on the other, a German Legation attaché. In the middle was Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finland'...
Gregori Fedorovitch Rezanov, the Soviet Union's first Minister to Colombia, got an unhappy welcome when he arrived at the Bogota airport. Because of a Foreign Office bungle, no Colombian dignitaries met him. Uninvited local Communists infested the airport, carried his baggage, muscled into his news pictures, acutely embarrassed...
The President arrived late Saturday afternoon, Nov. 27, and went straight to the handsome American legation. That night the President was invited to move into the main building of the Russian Embassy, where the meetings were to be held.