28 JANUARY 1984, page 12

The Brave Finns

Richard West Helsinki W ithin hours of coming to Finland, I heard someone remarking: 'We've had 40 wars against the Russians and lost them all, but who is having a good time and......

Too Many Midgets

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington I n 1822, two years before the next presidential election, Hezekish Miles, a visitor to Washington, wrote home astonished at `so great a buz......