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...films of World War II were on view in Manhattan last week. The Mannerheim Line, a Russian report on the Finnish campaign, was attended at the Miami Theatre by a muttering, ill-smelling audience, most of whom obviously did not understand what they saw and would have been depressed if they had. They saw a WPA Army leaning on its weapons-some of which, especially artillery, were not bad-stumbling through the motions of fighting, crawling clumsily around in the woods to try to knock off some determined, able fighters whom the camera never showed. The audiences saw Asiatic soldiers...
...duty done, Kyösti Kallio walked approvingly into the Presidential Palace to congratulate his successor. Then, while cheering Finns crowded Helsinki's streets, waving torches, singing the Finnish Army march, Porilaisten Marssi, he drove slowly off to the station, heading for retirement on his model farm in the country...
Last week, to finish the two and a half remaining years of his six-year term, the Electoral College picked Finland's third hero: suave, British-knighted, wartime Premier Rysto Heikki Ryti, who owns the best Finnish voice for catching U. S. and British ears. As longtime Governor of the Bank of Finland, he can claim most of the credit for the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country, has appeared to U. S. citizens the champion of Finland's determination to pay its war debt...
Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Kajanus; Victor: 4 sides; $2.50). Incidental music to a play by Sibelius' friend Hjalmar Procopé, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Finnish Orientalism is queer, but pleasing...