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First-string correspondents shook their heads last winter and spring every time a peace rumor emerged from Helsinki. Wait, they counseled, until the name Paasikivi appears; that will be time enough to expect results. Paasikivi knows the Russians, knows how to deal with Stalin. When the Finns really want to quit, they will call on Paasikivi to go to Moscow...
Last week 50 big Finns waited on Banker-President Risti Ryti, urged him to shelve stiff-necked Premier Edwin Linkomies, hand the job to 73-year-old Juho Kusti Paasikivi. Few expected the old man to accept the Premiership, if offered; many counted on his willingness to try to talk realities with Stalin, if asked...
Even more significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...
...from Britain, with whom the Finns are at war, nor from Washington. Finland must try to deal with Moscow, hoping that reasonable terms can be arranged. According to some reports last week, the Finnish Cabinet of re-elected President Risto Ryti was due for a shakeup, perhaps installing Juho Paasikivi, who negotiated the brief peace with Russia...
...week's end a hue & cry had been set up for Paasikivi. A Stockholm report said old apple-chinned Juho had gone to Moscow to negotiate a peace directly with Moscow. Juho was sent with Väinö Tanner to Moscow in 1939 before the first Finnish-Soviet war. On that occasion the belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used...