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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1940-

THIS MAN

MANNERHEIM

I have read somewhere that Dr. who then had grandiose designs upon Tancred Borenius, who' was sent as a the Chinese Empire. Finnish emissary to London after the last war, is engaged upon a full-length blography of Marshal Mannerheim and that before long it will be published in English,

When the Russian revolution broke out in 1917 Mannerheltn escaped to Helsinki; and within a short time, confronted with a Red coup d'etat in his own country, he organised at the coastal town of Vaasa the Finnish White Guard, which, under his effl-- clent direction, soon became, a first- class fighting force.........

It is doubtful whether six months ago any English publisher would have considered it worth while to co-operate in such an enterprise. Up to the mo- |ment of the Russian invasion the great He won recruits from nearly every majority of the people of this country class, including the peasants, to whom knew even less about Mannerheimtt ́seemed--as Mr. Hampden Jackson than they knew of Finland. They has pointed out in his fairminded Inew that Finland was cold and bleak history--that this was 1808 over again; and that it had produced many fine that is to say another war to defend long-distance runners. But who or what was Mannerheim?

This man's name is now as familliar as that of Gamelin and the system of cunningly fortified defences which he established on the Carelian Isthmus is as famous as the Maginot Line it- self.

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A.J. CUMMINGS

their holdings against the Russians who, whether they fought in the name of Tsar or Commissar, were always Russians.

His striking personality has ΠΟ parallel in the war-politics of to-day. He is the oustanding soldier-politician of Europe. If he were the representa- tive figure of a powerful nation his personal influence would be at least as In the ensuing civil conflict Man- great as that of a Roosevelt, a Stalin, anerheim proved the value of his pro- Hitler or a Lloyd George at the height |longed studies in the art of war. of his career.

He

conducted a skilful campaign, and The Russian propagandists, and virtually settled the issue in the battle those Communists in different parts for Tampere, the industrial city which of the world who have not yet broken the Reds had made their northern with Stalinism in its last repulsive capital. On May 16, nearly four phase, picture Mannerheim as a cruel months after the outbreak of hostill- monster, an oppressor of the poor, af ties, he entered Helsinki in triumph. White Guard reactionary of the lowest It is still, however, a matter of dis- type whose evil presence has for years pute whether he would have suc- kept the toilers enslaved and but for ceeded without the help, belated whom the Finnish people would now though if was, of German troops un- be happy and peaceful co-partners in der General von der Goltz. the enlightened Socialism of the Soviet State.

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By his compatriots--whatever many of them may have thought of him in the bitter past-Mannerheim is now regarded beyond doubt as a national hero to whom at the crisis of their destiny they must look for salvation from the Russian hosts..

The Allied and neutral peoples see him as a brilliant and daring soldier, the supreme human expression of all the mingled guile and toughness of the Finnish resistance; and even the Germans, giving reluctant support to Stalin's Baltic campaign, have found it hard to disguise their respect for Mannerheim's strategy and Finnish

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Mannerheim, whose position in Finnish politics was now assured, then had the difficult task of trying to per- suade the Allies in the last months of the Great War that he was not under German the direct influence of the General Staff.

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Not only, in fact, did he get re- cognition of the new Finnish Govern- ment but he also secured Allied help to deal with the threat of famine. As Regent of Finland he prepared a new Constitution, and, after a period of re- tirement, came back to reorganise Fin- land's defences.

Both his upbringing and his ex- periences in 1917 and 1918 had hard- ened him into an uncompromising It is of course not unnatural that anti-Bolshevik and this mental at- the Soviet ruilers should hate the very titude coloured most of his political sound of his name. Not only did he activities after the defeat of the Reds. once before prevent the Bolshevisation He was apt to suspect all move- of Finland, but he is the very anti-ments of reform, all agitations fo thesis of their social philosophy.

social betterment, as devices of the Born in 1867 of an ancient Swedo-devil to bring back Bolshevism. He Finnish house, Mannerheim followed was harsh and unrelenting in his de- the example of many fellow-country- | termination to resist Bolshevik ten- men of his own class by entering the Russian Army.

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As as young and handsome cavalry officer-well educated and intelligent- he was soon a popular figure in St. Petersburg society; and after playing a gallant part in the Russo-Japanese war he won further distinction by travelling through the wildest parts of Central Asla as a spy for the Tsar,

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dencies in any real or fancied gulse; and he did nothing to encourage a rap- prochement with the Soviet Govern- ment.

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Indeed, a foreign politician who knew Finland well in the post-war years, and knew Mannerheim, tells me that he was "stiff" and "arrogant' not only to Russian and other foreign diplomats but also to most persons

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By George McManus

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