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Soon there might be peace with Finland (see col. 2). Finland would remain independent. For Finland, stripped of a strategic Petsamo and Hango, would be harmless, lying like a baby between the paws of a bear...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
...dangerous ice since last June's sellout to the Nazis (TIME, July 10). The parliamentary pretext for Ryti's dismissal was a letter he wrote Hitler, promising that no Finn would make a step toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could no longer be fooled or fool themselves...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
...When Russia invaded Finland, Author Joyce wrote: "The most curious comment I have received on the book is a symbolical one from Helsinki, where, as foretold by the prophet, the Finn again wakes...