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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...
...Ryti & Co. had been war-dancing on dangerous ice since last June's sellout to the Nazis (TIME, July 10). The parliamentary pretext for Ryti's dismissal was a letter he wrote Hitler, promising that no Finn would make a step toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...