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...work in Finland accomplished, irrepressible General Mannerheim wanted to march his army into East Karelia and move on Petrograd in conjunction with the British Murmansk expedition. But the White Government, grateful to Ger many for her help in the civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing...
...accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...
...might have become its first President after the Republic was established five months later, if he had not kept clamoring for war against the Bolsheviki and vengeance against the Reds still in prison. Finland was tired of war, sick of vengeance. On a platform of amnesty for the Reds, Professor K. J. Stahlberg was elected President by 143 Parliamentary votes to 50 for General Mannerheim. The hard-bitten soldier (he was 52 then) retired to Louhisaari, to be heard from often again...
...increasing each year the 12% of its budget it originally appropriated for the military. He organized the Civic Guard, 100,000 strong, as a permanent reserve force. In 1931 his old sidekick, Per Svinhufvud, then President, made him President of the Council of Defense. Two years later he became Finland's only Field Marshal. Mannerheim threatened to wash his hands of the whole business of defense unless the Government established conscription...
Even before he became head of the Defense Council, he had spied out promising young officers in the Army, had them sent to France and Germany to study military science. Back in Finland, these men rose quickly to key positions, worked out in detail the tactics Mannerheim laid down. When the war began and he returned as Commander in Chief of all of Finland's armed forces, they knew what they...