Democratic Finland
‘•To one of the more educated Finns I expressed some surprise that a military directorate had not been set up,’"' writes a correspondent of a weilknown American newspaper. “ ‘We are a democracy in this country,’ he replied in some surprise. And it is a pretty advanced thought of democracy—this Finland. As an example; on the eastern frontier in Karelia last week I ate my noon meal with the officers in a barn about a mile back of the front line. And 1 found that officers and men have the same simple meal. That is a tradition—part of the tradition which makes landowners and labourers eat at the same table. Officers and men do not eat together, it is true, but you find them cheek by jowl.”
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Northern Advocate, 12 February 1940, Page 4
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