“NEW REPUBLIC.”
ANNOUNCEMENT IN MOSCOW. “NOT OF THE SOVIET TYPE.” (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, December 1. The Moscow radio announced that a popular Finnish Government has been formed. It consists of representatives of several Left parties and insurgent soldiers. / The seat of government is reported to be Torjoki, which the Soviet occupied yesterday. The Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs is Otto Kussimen. The announcer said: “Our corps will have the honour of raising the new Republic’s flag on the Presidential Palace at Helsinki. The new Republic will be democratic, but will not be of the Soviet type, because a new order cannot bo established without the consent of the people.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 45, 2 December 1939, Page 5
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