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...Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
When the Gripsholm landed him and 69 other volunteers in Finland, Oscar Penttila was straightway re-enrolled as a captain, given a battalion which included 20 other U. S. volunteers. They went out on 58 ski patrols, fought Russians 40 times, lost one dead and three wounded. Of some 500 U. S. and Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent...
...navy blue uniform, well loaded with gold braid and perfume: Harlem's Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who had previously distinguished himself by crashing the Emperor of Ethiopia's airplane. His critics on the Mathilda Thordén averred that Pilot Julian 1) had arrived in Finland 13 days after the war ended; 2) even if he was a commissioned captain (as he had Finnish papers to prove), he had no right to wear a Finnish military attache's uniform. Captain (erstwhile "Colonel'') Julian nevertheless kept his uniform, escaped to glory in Harlem...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...seems to Nazi-menaced democrats seeking anywhere for an ally, not as it appears in the radical and liberal press, but as it is in reality. He proposed to record the gulps by which Soviet imperialism swallowed Georgia, Outer Mongolia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and parts of Finland...