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...duty done, Kyösti Kallio walked approvingly into the Presidential Palace to congratulate his successor. Then, while cheering Finns crowded Helsinki's streets, waving torches, singing the Finnish Army march, Porilaisten Marssi, he drove slowly off to the station, heading for retirement on his model farm in the country...
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
...last September President Kallio's health was ebbing fast. The hasty German press already had him dead from a heart attack. The heart attack was real, but hardy Kyösti Kallio did not die. Instead, two months later, unable to work as hard as Finns think a man must, he resigned...
...Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyösti Kallio lay dying...
...assistance "that is not mediocre"-presumably weapons. Sweden sent her neighbor 37 airplanes and released from military service 10,000 men, who promptly "volunteered" to help the Finns. With Great Britain and Italy also unofficial allies, Finland seemed destined, like Spain, to become an international battleground. President Kyösti Kallio had his picture taken in the trenches with his Army, to keep up the good publicity...