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Accompanying Capitalist Ryti into the Bolshevik's lion's den was plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...
Nightly radio tirades against Finland abruptly ceased, but Monday the Moscow radio suddenly came to life, violently attacked Risto Ryti, still in Moscow, renewed exhortations to Finnish soldiers to revolt against their "capitalistic Government." Simultaneously it was officially announced that the bombing of Finnish areas had been resumed "on a comparatively large scale...
...these (or similar terms) were accepted, Finland could be considered to have lost perhaps a sixth of her 3,600,000 population but to have kept her honor bright. The Russians would look a lot less potent to the world, but at home Stalin could be made to appear a conquering hero, having won the U. S. S. R.'s first outside fight since its formation. The Germans would again enjoy a solid rearguard of neutrals. And the Allies would again savor the bitter hopelessness of trying to be the moral and political chaperones of a part...
...Russia talking peace with tiny Finland (see p. 19) partly because last week the Soviet Union was again approaching famine...
...only real fact to realize," said Finland's Minister to Stockholm Eljas Erkko, "is that war in Finland is still going on." All Europe's statesmen and all her journalists might be negotiating and writing about peace (see p.19) but in the heap of bricks that was Viipuri. along the Vuoksi where at least the surface of the ice was beginning to be spongy, above Lake Laatokka where the Finns say they came on a freezing, black-clad Russian holding up his arms and crying: "Don't shoot me! I'm a Russian capitalist": far north...