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...Army surged to the Dnieper, the fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...
...crashing boner in teaming up with Hitler was now added inescapable evidence that Finland had waited too long to open negotiations with her big neighbor and old enemy. Yet Ryti & Co. could not bring themselves to talk hard peace sense; Finland's-innate distrust of Russia was still powerful. Fortnight ago Premier Edwin Linkomies let it be known that Finland would like peace-if she could have her 1939 frontiers. Last week Russophobe Finance Minister Vaino Tanner said Finland would be glad to resume normal relations with Russia, provided "we could get a guarantee that we will...
...Helsinki there was talk that the barrier to peace was Baron Mannerheim and the General Staff, who insisted on keeping Soviet Karelia as a "practical guarantee." Others said that Ryti & Co. might have to step down before peace negotiations could begin. Said Tanner sadly...
Last week 50 big Finns waited on Banker-President Risti Ryti, urged him to shelve stiff-necked Premier Edwin Linkomies, hand the job to 73-year-old Juho Kusti Paasikivi. Few expected the old man to accept the Premiership, if offered; many counted on his willingness to try to talk realities with Stalin, if asked...
Still on the record was President Ryti's recent pledge to fulfill his Party's promise to withdraw from the war when "the propitious moment arrives." That moment evidently had not arrived...