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air arm, of go aircraft, including
reserves, and personnel of 1000.
50-Year Lease For Reds.

oU- car LEASE tut heQS.
A further restriction imposed by
the treaty would forbid Finland
from acquiring aircraft designed
primarily as bombers with internal
bomb carrying facilities.
Designed to strip Finland of any
ability to wage effective warfare,
the treaty also would accord Russia
a 50-year lease on Porkkala- Udd
to establish naval base and would
cede outright to Russia the north
ernmost Finnish province of Pet
samo, with its ice-free Arctic Ocean
port of the same name, giving the
Soviet Union an opportunity to ex-
plot Arctic Ocean shipping
throughout the year.
The surrender of Petsamo, on the
Russian Finnish border, is in &C.
cordance with the Russian Finnish
armistice, signed September 10,
1914.
The treaty draft takes into con-
sideration the fact that Finland,
the only Axis partner with which
the United States was not at war.
withdrew from World War II before
Germany's fall.
Stating that Finland bears her
share Of responsibility for this war;"
the treaty draft preamble voices an
Allied desire of concluding a treaty
of peace which will form the basis
OF friendly relations between them
and settle questions still outstand-
ing thereby enabling Allied
and Associated Powers to support
Finland's application to become a
member of the United Nations"
Preparations in Commodities.
The draft recommends that. repa-
rations, to be paid to Russia, shall
not be in full, but shall be limited
to $500 ,000, 900 payable over an eight
year period beginning September 49,
1898. Payment shall be in commocii-
tles-lncluding timber products, sea-
gong and river craft and sundry
machinery.
Many of the terms previously had
been agreed to by Russia and Fin
land in the Soviet Finnish armis-
tlce. The armistice provided origi-
nally that the $300,o00,OOO repara-
lions would be paid in six years.
Prime Minister Stain, at Finland's
request, last autumn amended the
armistice provisions, allowing Fin
land eight years in which to pay.
Political clauses of the proposed
treaty include one confirming the
Russian remuneration of rights to
lease the Peninsula of Hango in
Southern Finland and the confrma-
ton by Finland of the 5O-year Soviet
lease at an annual rental of 5000 900
Finnish marks (about 100000 of
the Porkkala-Udd site.
Another clause stipulates that the
Aaland Islands at the mouth of the
Gulf OF Bothnia, between Sweden
and Finland, shall remain demili-
tarized
Human Rights Guaranteed.
The defeated nation, the draft
proposes, must take all measures
necessary to secure to all persons
under Finnish jurisdiction, without
distinction as to race, sex, language
or religion, the enjoyment of human
rights and of the fundamental free
doms, including freedom of express
sion, OF the press and publication,
.of religious worship, of political
opinion and Of public meeting"
With a wary eye toward the Ger
many of the future. the drafters in
serted a clause pledging Finland ito
cooperate fully with the United Ma
Itlons in order to ensure Germany
may not be able to take any action
outside German territory tending to-
wards or facilitating her rearma-
ment."