The Finns are “happy that the Jews who have come to us and who, of course, enjoy full civic rights, feel at home in Finland and are one with us,” Finnish Minister Hjalmar J. Procope declared Monday night in an address before a dinner of the National Unity Essay Contest Committee at the Hotel Astor.
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