Word: risto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things could happen. One thing that happened this week was a U. S. credit of $10,000,000 to Finland. But if no further military help was forthcoming, the Finns could hope only to sell their country for much Russian blood. This they were prepared to do. Cried Premier Risto Ryti in a nationwide broadcast: "The Finnish people at this moment are fully united, firm as steel and ready for the greatest sacrifices in behalf of their independence and their existence. ... If compelled to do so, we shall fight to the end-even after...
...coalition Government formed under Risto Ryti met in a vault under the National Bank, of which he is president, prepared to withdraw to Vaasa on the west coast when Helsinki became unlivable. The U. S. Legation withdrew to Grankulla, down the Gulf coast to the west. Departing householders were asked to water their homes inside and out before leaving, to form ice insulation against incendiary bombs...
...Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti. New Foreign Minister was V. A. Tanner, who took part in the recent...
...officer in the Russo-Japanese war, later was a member of Tsar Nicholas II's personal retinue. His continued prominence in Finland is the measure of its firm anti-Bolshevism. In August of this year Baron Mannerheim attended the luncheon given by Governor of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti for vacationing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. whose "purely social" visit to Helsinki included a tour of Finnish cooperative stores and modernistic workmen's flats...
...Finns last week shared honors when Finland paid: staunch, old President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (properly translated "Boar's Head" not "Pig's Head") and smart, young Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland. Scrupulous, they paid in full-$148,592. No fools, they paid in silver which cost Finland 36? per ounce on the world market last week but was accepted as worth 50? per ounce by the U. S. Treasury under the Thomas amendment to President Roosevelt's Agricultural Relief Act (TIME, May 22). Great powers which did not pay in full (thus placing themselves...