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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Rudolf Holsti has played a prominent part in Finnish affairs. For two stretches he was Foreign Minister. At other times he has been the Finnish Minister to Latvia and Estonia and special delegate to the League of Nations. It was he who, as Foreign Minister, signed the "good-neighbor" agreement with the Soviet Union in February 1937. He and the then Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff became good friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion or Condemnation? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago this Finnish patriot informed the League of Nations Council that "Good Neighbor" Russia was guilty of having "attacked not only frontier positions, but also open towns of Finland, sowing death and destruction." He asked the League to "take all necessary measures to check the aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion or Condemnation? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...been arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary for breaking into a neighbor's home, making off with two caged birds and a radio, which he said were really his. (Case was dismissed.) He had gone to Reno, hoping to persuade Mrs. Knight to drop her suit, "succeeded only in creating a rumpus," according to the New York Daily Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...courtesies count. She was not at home when ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan toured European courts, but she went out of her way to give a ceremonious welcome to Hirohito, then Crown Prince and now Emperor of Japan. Afghanistan meant nothing in The Netherlands' life; Japan, a bad neighbor in the Far East, meant a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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