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...Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles, and it seems to light him up. Lampela, like most Moral Re-Armament people, is nearly always smiling. But after the Sing-Out show in Sanders Theatre he was not smiling at all. And he had reasons...
Died. Risto Heikki Ryti, 67, who became Finnish Prime Minister in 1939, led his country through the disastrous Russo-Finnish War, was elected President in 1940; of cancer; in Helsinki. Russia-hating Risto Ryti brought Finland into World War II on the Axis side (he disavowed Naziism, claimed a "defensive war") when Germany invaded Russia (June 1941), ignored Washington's insistence that Finland stop fighting with Russia. One month later Ryti was pressured out by his own Parliament, in 1946 began serving three years of a ten-year hard-labor sentence for "contributing to Finland's entry into...
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...