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Suddenly another venerable character was revived: Per Evind Svinhufvud, 79, Finland's President 1931-37. He arrived in Stockholm by plane, bound for Berlin, maybe Rome, and peace. An old fighter whose name means "Pig's Head," Per Svinhufvud observed: "When the road gets rough, the old cart is pulled out of the barn." He never got to Rome, and did nothing important in Berlin...
Nothing came of that, either. But in Paris that afternoon it was announced that the Allies had offered Finland direct military intervention-providing Finland asked for it. The French Government added up all war supplies sent to Finland: 405 airplanes (67 of them bombers) ; 916 pieces of artillery and 2,300,000 shells; 5,224 machine guns, 150 anti-tank guns, 450 grenades, 1,050 sea mines, 10,000 land mines, 60,000,000 infantry cartridges. This was not a bad effort for countries themselves at war, said a French spokesman...
...governments now came out in the open. The Swedish Foreign Office, confirming its part as an intermediary, released the extremely interesting fact that Finland had asked for an armistice during peace talk. The Russians refused...
Curiously, at the same time the British Government let it be known that it had been asked to forward to Finland a previous set of Russian terms but refused to do so because they were too severe. "The democratic world is rapidly becoming a burial association," said Dorothy Thompson...
...Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Ryti is one of the world's outstanding financiers and a confirmed Anglophile. His advice to Finnish businessmen has always been, "Protect yourselves. Undersell the Russians." He himself owns only British-made cars. For years Governor of the Bank of Finland, dapper, suave, immaculate Risto Ryti is well known on Wall Street, and the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country is due principally to his clever financial diplomacy...