Finlandization on the March
New York, June 8—Two reports, one from the New York Times’s John Vinocur, another from persons present at the meeting last month in Canada of the Bilderbergers, confirm what it is that those who use the term “Finlandization” are talking about. There is a human disposition to find dreary the repetition of words according as they describe exactly one’s weakness. If Mary says to John, “You are drinking too much,” he is likelier to snap back, “You’re always saying that,” if Mary has spoken the truth. During detente and the Vietnam War liberals would leave the room if you mentioned the word “Munich,” for so simple a reason as that they were acting without reference to the enduring lesson of Munich. The Europeans’ impatience with the word “Finlandization” precisely issues from their intuitive knowledge that Finlandization is a real thing, like herpes.
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