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Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland-at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked...
Just what brought on the rebuke, the State Department did not say. But it was the latest in a long series of indications that the U.S. Government was fed up with Finland's role as a Nazi ally, and with Finland's submission to tightening German control. Last July, the U.S. closed its consulates in Finland. In December, Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld left for Washington, ostensibly to report. Soon afterward, the Finnish Information Service in the U.S. was suspended by U.S. order. Recently Minister Schoenfeld, while retaining his title, has assisted Herbert H. Lehman in the Office...
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter...
Peace for Finland seemed as remote as ever last week, after President Risto Ryti chose pro-Axis Edvin Johan Linkomies to organize a new Cabinet...
...University, Professor Linkomies patched together a coalition Cabinet, with toeless* Sir Karl Henrik Wolther Ramsay as Foreign Minister. Sir Karl's title was given to him by the British, but any personal leanings he may have toward the Allies have not up to now affected his view that Finland had no choice but to stay on Germany's side. Fortnight ago, speaking as Supply Minister in the former Cabinet, Sir Karl re-emphasized one of the facts which explain Finland's continuance in the war: "Germany is the only country able to ship grain to Finland...