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Chewing a fat, four-inch stogie, Finland's most popular "war criminal" stepped out the gate of Helsinki's Sornas Prison last week into the welcoming arms of his wife, eight children and eleven grandchildren. White-haired, 68-year-old Vaino Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal for advocating war with Russia in 1941, had been granted remission of half his 5½-year sentence. "I am sure I am the best living advertisement for Finnish prisons," smiled the old man. "I have gained 15 pounds in weight and feel fitter than ever...
...Tanner spent eight hours of each prison day writing four volumes of memoirs and several translations, including Harold Laski's Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time and Wendell Berge's Cartels: Challenge to a Free World. His earnings from royalties were between $10,000 and $37,000. After his daily stint, the onetime Foreign Minister would spend an hour or two playing the Italian bowling game boccie with nine fellow prisoners, all former cabinet ministers. "We all became champions at the game," says Tanner...
...Elaine Tanner '50, president of the Radcliffe League for Democracy, also considered the proposal, and agreed it was "a good idea...
Lack of script-writers and commentators forced the League to leave the proposal unaccepted at present, although Elaine Tanner, Radcliffe '50, club president, and the majority of the members attending the meeting voiced approval of the idea...
League for Democracy--Elaine Tanner '50, president; Elizabeth Horton '50, vice president Pauline Seliger '50, secretary; Marion Clesner '49, treasurer...