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...epee, Risto Hurme from NYU and Ernesto Fernandez from Penn are in a hotly contested race for the individual title. Hurme has lost once, Fernandez twice, and the two epee men will meet in today's competition. The match should be a classic. Both fencers are Olympians, Hurme for Finland and Fernandez from Mexico. They are outstanding fencers of completely different styles. Hurme is a "tempo-rhythm" type of fencer, who always keeps moving; Fernandez is basically a point man, working around the arms and going for the feet...
Individual titles in epee and sabre also went to NYU with Risto Hurme taking the epee competiton and Pete Westbrook winning sabre...
...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...
...Helsinki, balding, sad-eyed ex-President Risto Ryti and seven other Cabinet ministers had been tried, under special retroactive legislation, for "contributing to Finland's entry into the war on Germany's side." Twelve Finns had tried for 19 days to reach a verdict, with Russia impatiently looking over their shoulders. Last week, the tribunal announced a verdict of guilty. The Finnish court had obviously shared worldwide doubts on whether the responsibility for war was a crime. In relation to the charge, the sentences were fantastically light. Ryti and his colleagues would serve an average of 4.8 years...
Meanwhile the Russian government was reported to be hunting three Finnish war criminals: ex-Premier Risto Ryti, ex-Premier Edwin Linkomies, ex-Finance Minister Väinö Tanner. The staid New York Times reflected a change in the political climate and habits of a decade by reporting not that the fugitive Finns had gone into hiding, but that they "had gone underground...