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When the Russians accused Finland of using chloropicrin (vomiting) gas, Premier Ryti sagely warned his countrymen to ready their gasmasks...
...coalition Government formed under Risto Ryti met in a vault under the National Bank, of which he is president, prepared to withdraw to Vaasa on the west coast when Helsinki became unlivable. The U. S. Legation withdrew to Grankulla, down the Gulf coast to the west. Departing householders were asked to water their homes inside and out before leaving, to form ice insulation against incendiary bombs...
...Russo-Japanese war, later was a member of Tsar Nicholas II's personal retinue. His continued prominence in Finland is the measure of its firm anti-Bolshevism. In August of this year Baron Mannerheim attended the luncheon given by Governor of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti for vacationing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. whose "purely social" visit to Helsinki included a tour of Finnish cooperative stores and modernistic workmen's flats...
...Finns last week shared honors when Finland paid: staunch, old President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (properly translated "Boar's Head" not "Pig's Head") and smart, young Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland. Scrupulous, they paid in full-$148,592. No fools, they paid in silver which cost Finland 36? per ounce on the world market last week but was accepted as worth 50? per ounce by the U. S. Treasury under the Thomas amendment to President Roosevelt's Agricultural Relief Act (TIME, May 22). Great powers which did not pay in full (thus placing themselves...
...last week held stocks of liquor worth $3,600,000 recently seized from Finnish bootleggers in a "battle" with Prohibition agents which cost 14 lives. This liquor the Government expected to sell through its prospective Liquor Control Stores. Said the Governor of the Bank of Finland, suave Mr. Risto Ryti: "Finland could not afford to leave her liquor untaxed and her liquor trade in the hands of professional criminals...