FINLAND: Hard Terms

Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent.

Into Helsinki's pock-marked airport swooped a big plane with a red star. The first eleven members of the Allied Armistice Control Commission—Russians all—shook hands briefly with Foreign Minister Enckell, started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided...

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