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...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
...York City has 38,000 schoolteachers. Dr. Emil Altman is an excitable, potbellied little man who has charge of keeping tabs on their physical and mental condition. Few years ago he made national headlines when he charged that no fewer than 1,500 of the city's teachers were off their rockers, many of them "crackpots" (TIME, April 9, 1934). Ever since, Dr. Altman has tried with might & main to purge the crackpots...
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been preparing for war against Russia ever since his Government refused to let him lead a Finnish White Army against Petrograd in 1918. To his implacable hatred of everything Red may be attributed some of Stalin's nervousness over the security of the U. S. S. R., which was a remote cause of the present Russo-Finnish war. To it Finland certainly owes her continued independence, for the defense tactics that have so amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned...
...next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children, of whom the first, Sophia, became an internationally famed trained nurse. The third was named Carl Gustaf Emil. In him was a little of the tycoon, a little of the scientist, a great deal of the rebel. Wrote his mother to a friend: "I can feel secure about all the rest of my children, but what in heaven's name is going to become of Gustaf...
Last week Finnish Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim announced that three Lottas, Lissa Uurasmaa on the Arctic front, Julia Shemeikka and Julia Nerkuu on the Eastern front, had "remained faithfully at their dangerous posts and are the first Lottas to be killed in action." Said he: "In the name of the Army we pay tribute to their memory...