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Meanwhile it came out that while yachting off Nassau last month, Swedish Axel Wenner-Gren received a cable from Field Marshal Hermann Goring telling him to come home and mediate the Russo-Finnish peace. He sailed to Italy on board the same boat as U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, proceeded to Berlin at about the same time. Having made mints from vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Axel Wenner-Gren is influential in money markets, but his only experience in international crises was accidental-while cruising in his huge Southern Cross he came on the sinking Athenia and rescued...
Sunday brought the crazy week's climax. In many languages a German broadcast announced that a Finnish delegation had been in Moscow talking peace ever since Wednesday. An unnamed Finnish Army officer observed: "Now that they are trying to drag this war down to the level of European politics, there can be but little hope for a clear decision." In greatest secrecy, a plane had taken off from Helsinki, headed for Stockholm, stopped there briefly, set out again, and gone straight across Latvia to Moscow. Its passengers were an extraordinary crew...
First among them was none other than Premier Risto Ryti of the Finnish Government. That Premier Ryti should lead a delegation to Moscow was in itself the height of irony. Knighted by King George V of England in 1934 and a close friend of Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Ryti is one of the world's outstanding financiers and a confirmed Anglophile. His advice to Finnish businessmen has always been, "Protect yourselves. Undersell the Russians." He himself owns only British-made cars. For years Governor of the Bank of Finland, dapper, suave, immaculate Risto 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...