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...Swede-baiter and vice president of Helsinki University, Professor Linkomies patched together a coalition Cabinet, with toeless* Sir Karl Henrik Wolther Ramsay as Foreign Minister. Sir Karl's title was given to him by the British, but any personal leanings he may have toward the Allies have not up to now affected his view that Finland had no choice but to stay on Germany's side. Fortnight ago, speaking as Supply Minister in the former Cabinet, Sir Karl re-emphasized one of the facts which explain Finland's continuance in the war: "Germany is the only country...
...Reportedly stripped by his Russian captors on the Karelian Isthmus in February 1940, Ramsay was told to escape if he could. He did, reaching the Finnish lines with frozen feet. His toes were amputated...
...emerged from World War I, Jim seemed capable of great things. William Lyon Phelps led the reviewers' chorus in praising his first novel, Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
...young Lloyd George. He recalled Admiral Jellicoe ("an obstinate man . . . fundamentally weak, he did not even carry out orders when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year of the war and we've hardly tackled our main enemy, Germany...
...jail when his selection was announced in TIME: Mohandas K. Gandhi had just launched civil disobedience to get the British out of India. Next year was "a lean year for everybody," as old Ramsay MacDonald put it: Man of 1931 was Pierre Laval, chosen for having steered France prosperously through twelve months which had meant breadlines and apple sellers in almost every other land. (Laval is one choice we're not very proud to look back...