Word: risto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland, now allied with the Axis against Britain and Russia, bet on an Allied victory this week. An almost unanimous vote by 300 electors gave an emergency two-year term to incumbent President Risto Ryti, who last fortnight appealed to the U.S. to save Finland from the consequences of Axis defeat (TIME...
Finland's President Risto Ryti, opening the Parliament's 1943 session last week, clearly indicated that he no longer counts on Axis victory. All that he had left to count on was the hope that Britain and the U.S. would save Finland from the Russians...
Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...
Finnish troops were massed before Leningrad. Finland's president, gaunt, grave Risto Ryti, reaffirmed his Government's disavowal of Nazi ideology, pledged continuance of the war against Soviet Russia. Great Britain, weighing Joseph Stalin's demand for a formal declaration of war against Finland, Rumania and Hungary, looked to the U.S. for advice...
Between two fires, Tanner last week appeared to have thrown his whole short bulk in with the Nazis. This was an evil portent for the Social Democratic Party−and for democratic Finland. How matters were going was made clearer at week's end, when President Risto Ryti proposed that elections, due next year, be postponed until 1944 because of the "emergency...