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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...
...Finnish Legation in Washington answered in words that were partly quoted from President Ryti: Finland will not be satisfied to discuss peace until her Army has reached the "strategic line* independently selected by her in her own defensive interests of security." Between what she considers her security and the friendship of the U.S., Finland had chosen security. She had left Britain little choice but to declare war as Joseph Stalin requested...
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...
Last week, to finish the two and a half remaining years of his six-year term, the Electoral College picked Finland's third hero: suave, British-knighted, wartime Premier Rysto Heikki Ryti, who owns the best Finnish voice for catching U. S. and British ears. As longtime Governor of the Bank of Finland, he can claim most of the credit for the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country, has appeared to U. S. citizens the champion of Finland's determination to pay its war debt...
Nightly radio tirades against Finland abruptly ceased, but Monday the Moscow radio suddenly came to life, violently attacked Risto Ryti, still in Moscow, renewed exhortations to Finnish soldiers to revolt against their "capitalistic Government." Simultaneously it was officially announced that the bombing of Finnish areas had been resumed "on a comparatively large scale...