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Jaakko (pronounced Yahko) reached America in 1921, armed with a degree in mechanical engineering and a reputation for having done wonders with the 1920 Finnish Olympic track team. While he searched for a job, American track connoisseurs came to the conclusion that coaches of his ability were considerably scarcer than mechanical engineers...
...young mechanical engineer first and shortly thereafter he was signing his first Crimson contract. Now, 26 years later, he is still turning out winners. Actually, Coach Mikkola's Olympic experiences didn't end with the 1920 championships. In 1924 he took a brief "leave of absence" to coach the Finnish team for the Paris contests...
...athletes distinguished themselves by placing second in the track and field tests, this time with a total of 166 points. Paave Nurmi, just beginning to dominate the headlines, paced the Finns by obliterating Olympic records in the 1500 and 5000 meters. Following this success, Jaakko was married at the Finnish Legation at Paris and subsequently returned to Harvard as cross country coach and assistant track coach...
Claiming to have been always firmly anti-Nazi, Dr. Kersten is a Finnish citizen who now lives and practices in Sweden. He declares that he treated Himmler (also Ribbentrop, Hess, Ley, et al.) simply to protect his own family. He was also instrumental, he says, in sending thousands of victims of German concentration camps to safety into Switzerland and Sweden. Documents reproduced in his Memoirs, and an introduction by Biographer Konrad (Hitler) Heiden, indicate that his claims are true. So also may be his reports of tall Nazi ambitions. Samples...
Treaties for Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland--all paying the price for helping Adolf Hitler to scourge Europe--were signed in that order during the afternoon session. The United States was a party to all except the Finnish pact. Twenty allied nations participated...