Citations:Finland

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English citations of Finland

  • 1961, Pierre Deffontaines, Larousse Encyclopedia of Geography: Europe:
    The line from Joensuu to Oulu and Tornio roughly follows the dividing line between the two Finlands. The regions which have been longest occupied are the fertile plains of marine clay along the coast and on the shores of certain lakes.
  • 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, “A Changed World, Formation of a Cabinet, a Mission to Korea”, in Mandate for Change 1953-1956[1], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
    As time wore on, it became apparent that the Soviet Union had no intention of continuing its policy of friendship, even on the surface. By 1948 the mystery of Jan Masaryk's plunge to his death in Czechoslovakia (the Communists called it suicide) following the Communist coup, the Soviet use of the Red Army to support Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Communist pressures on Italy and Finland, and the arrogant actions of some of the U.S.S.R.'s satellites, including the shooting down of two American transport planes over Yugoslavia,³ made discernible to all the Soviet policy of holding occupied territory in bondage, while attempting to spread the growth of Communism through subversion, espionage, brutality, and fear.
  • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point[2], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465:
    The translation of Khrushchev's letter reached me later that day, and I read it with care and with growing disappointment. It seemed designed for propaganda purposes rather than serious diplomacy. Khrushchev roundly denounced "colonizers" and "imperialism" as the major causes of past wars. Of course, he did not mention the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, the obliteration of the Baltic states, or the "colonization" of Eastern Europe by Moscow after World War II.
  • 1989, Karen Christine Beidel, Showing their politics: the society for Finland's geography and nationalism:
    Finland, he argues, always existed within the Swedish realm as at least two Finlands. The Finnish archipelago, Ostrobothnia, and Luonais[sic]-Suomi [] were, in fact, part of the core of the Swedish empire. The more distant parts ...
  • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment[3], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280:
    Finland's Paavo Nurmi, the champion Olympic long-distance runner in 1924, had no competition. He had to run with a watch strapped to his wrist so that he could see whether he was running in championship form.
  • 2014, Andrew Boland, Dhaka to Dakar: Book One - Through Asia, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN):
    I was baffled at the presence of two Finlands and no Australia.
  • 2015, Dimitrios Kassis, Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (→ISBN), page 294:
    In Boileau-Elliott's excerpt one can also discern this cultural conflict between the two “Finlands”, the more advanced part (“ceded by Sweden”) and Old Finland (conquered by Peter the Great) which belongs culturally to the East, {{..}}
  • 2017, Jason Lavery, Reforming Finland: The Diocese of Turku in the Age of Gustav Vasa 1523-1560, BRILL (→ISBN), page 18:
    Two Finlands also existed in the sense that most of the Finnish Peninsula lay under the Swedish Crown, but smaller areas were at times under the rule of Russia and its predecessors. In fact, there were many Finlands. The medieval and ...