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Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...Government last week held stocks of liquor worth $3,600,000 recently seized from Finnish bootleggers in a "battle" with Prohibition agents which cost 14 lives. This liquor the Government expected to sell through its prospective Liquor Control Stores. Said the Governor of the Bank of Finland, suave Mr. Risto Ryti: "Finland could not afford to leave her liquor untaxed and her liquor trade in the hands of professional criminals...
...when Finland broke away from Russia and became a Republic, Professor Lucina Hagman was a leading female Dry in the successful fight which set up Finnish Prohibition in 1919. Thirteen years of Prohibition having changed her views, Professor Hagman exclaimed after the polling: "The Finnish home has been saved...
Victory for the Allies and the appearance of a British expeditionary force in Finland were signals for Democracy. On June 17, 1919 the Finnish Diet proclaimed the present Finnish Republic and ex-Regent Svinhufvud took up the life of a country gentleman on his Finnish farm...
Eleven years later Finland again had need of Ukko Pekka, much as Republican Germany whose first president was the Socialist Friederich Ebert turned at last to the former Monarchist von Hindenburg. In 1930 Gentleman Farmer Svinhufvud became Premier. Early this year he who had been Regent was elected President. Under his frowning rule (for the steely eyes can be stern as well as twinkle) Communism has been made illegal in Finland, Communists punished or forced into other parties. "But we know where they are," rumbles the President contentedly, "We keep a good watch on those fellows...