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ANTI-ALLIED MOVES

Finnish Diplomats Asked To Leave U.S.A. WASHINGTON. June 16. The Finnish Minister, Iljalmar Procope. and three counsellors were' handed (heir passports today and asked to leave the United States because of activities inimical to United'States interests. The State Department announced that the action did not constitute a rupture of diplomatic relations. Iljalmar Procope and his three advisers were not welcome diplomatic visitors, but theoretically Finland could replace him with another Minister. Two memhers of the Finnish diplomatic staff remain at their A Washington spokesman declined to specify "activities inimical to United States interests." but the United Press correspondent says the action is a climax to a long period of deteriorating dildomalic relations in which the United States failed in attempts to persuade the Finns to cease lighting Russia. The United States maintains only a Charge d’Affaires at Helsinki. The other members of the legation were brought home a year ago. The “New York ’.rimes’’ Washington correspondent learns that Finnish diplomats have long been engaged in propaganda activities directed toward dividing the Allies, partii’ularl.v Russia and the United States. After the collapse of the Russian-Finnish peace negotiations American officials decided that, no furflier purpose could be served by pcrmiltiug the situation to continue.

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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
204

ANTI-ALLIED MOVES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 5

ANTI-ALLIED MOVES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 5

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