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Finland, now allied with the Axis against Britain and Russia, bet on an Allied victory this week. An almost unanimous vote by 300 electors gave an emergency two-year term to incumbent President Risto Ryti, who last fortnight appealed to the U.S. to save Finland from the consequences of Axis defeat (TIME...
Knocked in the head were excited reports from Stockholm and Berlin that Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Commander in Chief of the Finnish Army, would stand for election. With President Ryti still in office, sternly anti-Communist Mannerheim' was left free to handle Finland's darkening military prospects. Many reports had Finland feeling for peace. But Finland's primary aim probably is not peace in itself, but security when peace does come. Cagey, conservative President Ryti is the logical choice to negotiate for Finnish security...
Finland's President Risto Ryti, opening the Parliament's 1943 session last week, clearly indicated that he no longer counts on Axis victory. All that he had left to count on was the hope that Britain and the U.S. would save Finland from the Russians...
Declared President Ryti: "Decisive battles . . . may already be in progress. . . . The World War seems to be reaching its climax and surprises are likely to occur. . . . Civilized nations cannot sink so deep that they will not acknowledge every people's legitimate right to life and liberty. Therefore we may still look forward with confidence...
Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...