Stalin Says Finland is Treated by Soviet as an Equal
LONDON, April 13.
M. Stalin, gave a speech at a dinner on Thursday last, in celebration of the signing of the SovietFinnish treaty. The speech was released by the Moscow Radio for the first time, yesterday. He said that this treaty marked a great turning point in relations between the two countries in the direction of trusi and friendship. Treaties, he said, could be equal or unequal. Most of the politicians Oi the great Powers did not believe that there could be equal relations between the great Powers and small Powers. They regarded small nations “from above, condescendingly,” but the. Sovif.lt Union, he said, considered tV.at such relations could and should exist, and they regarded the Finnish Soviet treaty as being a pact between equals.
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Grey River Argus, 14 April 1948, Page 5
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