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Finland Faces Soviet Pressure Amid Neutrality Clash
Helsinki dispatch recalls 1961 Soviet note demanding talks with Finland on joint defense under the 1948 mutual aid pact. President Kekkonen moves to reassure the public, calls for new elections for 1962, and stresses Finland’s neutrality while Moscow presses to curb NATO in the Baltic region.
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Finland
United States
United Press International
Kaemp
Soviet Russia
Kremlin
U.S.S.R
NATO
Baltic
Urho Kekkonen
Hawaii
Ahti Karjalainen
Soviet Union
Europe
Berlin
West Germany
Kekkonen
Karjalainen
Helsinki
Los Angeles
Martti Miettunen
A. V. Zakharov
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Olavi Honka
Siberia
Nikita Khrushchev
Honka
Russia