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KYOSTI KALLIO-PEASANT & STATESMAN
KYOSTI KALLIO, peasant-farmer and son of the
earth, was fourth President of Finland. Short, stocky and bewhiskered, Kallio looked and acted His name meant like the son of peasants he was proud to br "Rock". His policy both as Prime Minister--he held that office three times--and as President was to keep Finland a rock of democracy and sanity on the fringe of an arming, turbulent Europe.
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sketchy. Kyosti Kalli haphazard education be entered palities in 1904 as a member of the Finnish Diet. Finland at that time was a province of Im- perial Russia, enjoying a certain measure of Home Rule.
in 1917 Finland tore herself free from Russia and after nearly three years was recognised as an independent republic. Kallio was Speaker of the Diet during fourteen sessions after 1920.
His outstanding achievement--at least, the achievement of which he was most proud
law known as the "Lex Kallio" which split up oversized ratates and divided parts of
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them among the land-starved peasantry. When he was elected President in 1937 Kallio was the "grand old man" of the Fin- wish Diet with 34 years service to his credit.
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Kallio was elected President of Finland on February 15,
President Kallio remained all his life a peasant at heart. Consequently, he was popular in a country whose 3,600,000 in- habitants are largely peasants themselves. His wife ran A model farm near Helsinki, the capital.
Finns called him "The First Pensant”. He lived simply in an ordinary peasant home. Throughout the Hitler War with Russia the old president was the rallying point for Fin nish determination. When the War ended as it did most pre- sidents would have resigned. But Kyosti Kallio hung on, began, as first peasant, the long task of rebuilding his peasant state.
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UR second National An- them. Few would dispute the right to that title of the grand old song, "Rule. Bri- Lannin" Wagner, the German composer, and a sincero ad- mirer of this country, said: "The first eight notes of the tune express the whole of the character of the British nation.." He developed one of his early overtures from Its melody.
The port Southey, wifing in the days before "God Save the King" had become our National Anthem, sid of "Rule, Britannia!**.
will be the political hymn of the country as long as she maintains her political power."* And boste ul
other writers have paid sumar tribute to its stirring; grandeur and beauty
To-day. the year of its two hundredth birthday, the song has taken ull a new and deeper meaning [ % Our Nhvy hus in the drst months of the wit shown that Britain sull rules the waves under
conditions vastly different from those prevailing when the song was written. And it is because of our determination that "Britons never shall be slaves" that we are of war To-dny.
Those proud familar strains were heard for the Brst time on August 1. 1740. The scene was the grounds of Ciletden House, near Malden- hend in Berkshire, It was then the home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and on that night the cream of curly Georgian society had gathered there in colourful costumes to hear
new mosque which was being performed in honour of the anni- versary of King George II's acces- sion and of the birth of the baby Princess Augusta.
The masque was called "Aifred,“ And and told of that grent king.
is nole was the song that we now know as "Rule, Britannlu!“ The performance was such a a success that it achieved the rare distinction of being repeated by the Prince's command on the following night, but that was nothing to the triumph of the grand finale. It was pub- Hished as a song three weeks later, and in a few months it had become a first favourite.
Nobody can tell for certain who wrote the words of "Rule, Britan- nia!" for two poets collaborated in the libretto of the masque to which it belongs. One of them was James Thompson, whose poem, "The Sea- suna," one of the classics of English verso. The other was a lesser, almost forgotten
writer named David Malet.
After Thompson's death, Male! published a new edition of the book to "Alfred," and in his preface to this declared that he had removed all that his collaborator had written. In this case he was the creator of "Rule, Britannia!" which remained In the new version. But to-day it secus probable that this was mere
ruse to get the credit for the words, by then established as a classic among lyrics.
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Wagner's use of the tune has al- ready been mentioned, and another composer to work up an overture from Arne's melody was Sir Alex- ander Mackenzie, one of the lead- ing: British, composers of the last afty years.
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