Word: mannerheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's aging (78) President, left Helsinki for points west and south. Officially, he was traveling for his health (he is asthmatic). Unofficially, the veteran soldier and inveterate foe of Soviet Russia was said to be avoiding his country's "War Responsibles" trial...
...either case, Finland's raw climate was more than Mannerheim's constitution could stand. His destination: Portugal's sunny Islands of Madeira...
Finns Bow. For a fortnight the Finns had queued up before Government Alko-holiliike (liquor stores), which had suddenly opened after a long shutdown. They had drunk toasts to peace. Then, at last, under the eye of old Baron Carl Mannerheim, Prime Minister Antti Hackzell broadcast Nazi weakness to all the world: "It is not possible for Germany to give us sufficient help to stay...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
Nowhere was there a man who hated the Russian regime more deeply than Mannerheim. But nowhere was there a man the Finns were more likely to follow with blind faith. And the Russians are realists. Only Mannerheim could make a crippling peace and make it stick. But the Kremlin was not in a waiting mood. It was reported to have given the Finns twelve days to decide whether to negotiate for peace or face a resumption of the Red Army's offensive...