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...went to Elbert H. Baker, a tanner's son, who started as bookkeeper for the Cleveland Herald, switched to advertising, was hired by the Cleveland Leader, and then by Holden. Manager-publisher-editor of the Plain Dealer from 1898 to 1920 (when he retired), Elbert Baker began the then-sensational policy of telling the truth about circulation, bought wire services, hammered at separation of news and editorial, won a remarkable loyalty from his staff. In Baker's first years the rival Cleveland Leader, way out ahead of the Plain Dealer, paid little attention to Baker; when it realized...
Tough old Vaino Tanner, Finland's Minister of Commerce and Industry, who had also been to Germany, had that very afternoon protested that the Finns were not Nazis: "The Finns are Democratic and want the parliamentary system, as they have heretofore. I want especially to point that out to some circles abroad who may believe that Finland is moving in another direction. We don't lose our heads. Finland regards herself as Nordic. . . . We must try for a more definite form of cooperation with other Scandinavian countries...
...Minister Tanner's prattling further complicated the tug of war in Finland between pro-Nazi conservative groups, and anti-Nazi Social Democrats, of whom Väinö Tanner is leader...
...Social Democrats were displeased and puzzled when Tanner talked about "our German friends." They attempted to dismiss his remark by saying he must have had a couple of acquavitas. Though camouflaged with the job of Commerce Minister, Väinö Tanner, as leader of Finland's largest party, is the strong man of Finland. He hates Bolshevism, but is afraid to accept Soviet Karelia lest Russia win the war and swallow Finland. He dislikes the Nazis, but is afraid to run out of the war lest they swallow Finland...
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...