1.
GV. PARLIAMENT HOUSE, HESINKI.
0.07

2.
SV. PAN ELECTION POSTER
0.10

3.
SV ANOTHER DITTO.
0.13

4.
LV. MAN STUDIES ELECTION POSTER
0.15

5.
SV ELECTION POSTER
0.17

6.
CU PAN ANOTHER DITTO.
0.20

7.
GV PEOPLE SEATED AT AGRARIAN MEETING
0.24

8.
SV AGRARIAN CANDIDATE SPEAKS AT MEETING
0.29

9.
SV AUDIENCE
0.33

10.
CU TELEVISION SCREEN, CANDIDATE SPEAKS
0.39

11.
STV PAN PEOPLE IN HALL WATCH TELEVISION.
0.43

12.
CU TELEVISION SCREEN, ANOTHER CANDIDATE SPEAKS.
0.47

13.
SV PEOPLE AT HOME WATCH TELEVISION.
0.51



Initials JRG/S/WS/IRMD



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Background: A GENERAL ELECTION, CALLED AS A RESULT OF THE CRISIS FOLLOWING RUSSIA'S DEMAND FOR MILITARY TALKS TO PARRY "THE THREAT OF AN ATTACK FROM WEST GERMANY" WAS BEING HELD IN NEUTRAL FINLAND FEB 5-6 ALTHOUGH SOVIET PREMIER MR. KHRUSCHEV HAS NOW AGREED TO LEAVE THE TALKS IN ABEYANCE.

THE ELECTION - TO CALL A NEW PARLIAMENT - FOLLOWS LAST MONTH'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ALSO A RESULT OF THE SOVIET NOTE LAST DECEMBER FOR MILITARY TALKS.

FOR THE GOOD OF FINLAND, MOST FORECASTERS HOPED FOR A COALITION TO END THE ONE-SIDED AGRARIAN RULE. UNLIKE PREVIOUS ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, THIS ONE WAS LESS VIRULENT BETWEEN PARTIES, EACH OF WHICH MADE FINAL APPEALS TO THE NATION OVER RADIO AND TELEVISION, FEB 2.