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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1955.

PERIL FOR THE FINNS

By Lewis Nelson

Helsinki.

The President

ERE is a deep furrow Juho

on

Fansikivi's brow. Nobody is saying anything officially but the grand old man of Firmish politics the man

whose soft voice and hard bargaining have so far kept. the Russians out of Finland

is worried.

Intelligence reports pour- ing into Finnish naval head- quarters prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the Russians have quietly 'gain- od complete sen control of the Baltic.

There is. furious building De tivity in the little strip of land a few miles outside, Helsinki which the Russians acquired as

base, under the terms of the World War II peace treaty.

And the Russians have put their suburrines in the Baltic into battle order.

There are-according to the latest roport 370 of the sub- *mories,

And the only hope at defend- ing Finland the Russians decide to get rough lies in the: almost instint landing of a large body of Weste troops

For under the terms of the

treaty the Finns are allowed to

maintain no Wmy of their own,

фосере scurity

a force for intermi

*

NO ACCIDENT

the

And. technically, the Russians | have a right to occupy country in event of attack.

"This is one

reason why I voted not to strike!"

SALES

London Expess Service

He stole the Crown Jewels... But history does not tell

us about that mysterious interview with Charles II

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WONDER just what

WES sald. that years

morning 283

ago when King

It in, however, no accident Charles II stood face to face

FORGIVEN?

that most of the "Internal with the man who had colonel in his army. When

security" force is devoted stolen the Crown Jewels Cromwell became Protector

watching the Russian border for and almost got away with of England Colonel Blood,

any sige that the Russians are to the move.

is not under

them?

like other leaders in Crom- well's forces, was given land

But with the

Paasikivi has devoted most In a private room in in Ireland and might have of his life" to preventing a Rus-Whitehall, Palace the King, been content to settle down slan take-over. His work up to now looks almost like a miracle more noted for his merci and become one of the

Finhad is the only part of ment than his personal landed gentry. the old Russian Empire which bravery gave private audi-

Restoration Rusdan domina-jence to Colonel Thomas which put Charles: IT on the Blood, one of England's throne Colonel Blood-lands Paasikivi ant gotiated his

freedon in 1920. boldest adventurers,

ware: confisented. The were country's

Ormonde. given to the Duke of Or Then he

resigned 15 Prime Minister and stayed on as Am- Whatever passed between and from then on Colonel Blood bassador to Moscow during the them it must have been pursued a ceaseless feud against inter-war years studying the worth listening to. For it the Duke, twice attempting to Russians, keeping them cool, saved Blood from the cer- murder him.

warning them.

tainty of the gallows; it The first of these plots was, to in 1830, the Russians at- tacked The Finns beat them made him a member of the seize Dublin Castle, the seat of off and Paasikivi negotiated a Court; and, even more re- the Duke, by tricking the guards into scrambling for loaves of place while

good

the going was markable. it resulted in white bread while Blood's men Ireland forced their way in. But the 1844, there was another Blood's land in bout with the Russians, and in (which

gained plot falled and Blood fed to

in

1945

he had

Paasikivi negotiated the through fighting for Oliver Holland.

current treaty.

It was the best he could do

Cromwell and lost after the

and so far it has worked

But as NATO's strength builds

Restoration) being restored to him.

up, the

kup, Russians grow restive: Probably no one will ever

The next attempt care seven

Richard Herd

of

recalls one the world's strangest stories

COLONEL BLOOD

Keeper of the

Finland, the gateway to Scan know what Blood said to years later when, after a fugi- dinavia, would be handy. The Finns could hardly put up a the King in the privacy of five life in England, Ireland and the kindly old fight. They cannot be members that room. There have been on the Continent, often in dis Jewels, Talbot Edwards, took of NATO,

many theories some of guise and with a price on his her upstairs in his home, gave them reasonable, some which head, Blood attacked the Duke her a drink and allowed her to

PUBLICITY BET

Quietly, Paasikivi has warned them that if they act, he will call help. He would almost cer- tainly have received it, for everyone is

is aware .of strategic importance of Finland, with its face to the Baltic, its northern frontier a land route 10 Scandinavia

and its back the

Russian border.

the

Now he could call for help

in St James's Street.

* rest on a bed

•

reason and gave the aberto. His want could have been in pay- ment for his silence.

Whatever the reason for the King's strange clemency Blood became a very powerful member of the Court, and for a while seekers after' £rvour made their

What would have been the greatest robbery in history was all but complete when, by, an timazing stroke of III fortune applications through him. No. for Blood and his men, Talbote seems to have trusted him and even when he died rumour son, who had been hid it that he had staged a dis- Edwards's abroad, arrived home at that very moment. He raised the alarm. There was a chase, a

and in rumning

end Colonel Blood was captived.

It seemed certain that he would be exocuted, but Blood's behaviour was astonishing. He sufused to say who was with him In the plot,

he presump tuously dem

demanded a

private audience with the Xing

to him, he sa all. And the

Staly

-wroute this, tell

prising testre of the whole affair agreed to see him Cour tiers were amazed that Charles should consent to risk his le with the bold, bad Colonel Blood, But see him be did

The door was shut behind them, the courtiers kept outside, and Blood and the King, were left together. Shortly after wards the King announced, that he had pardoned Colonel Blood, had restored to him his lands and had invited him to attend the Court.

One explanation put forward for this volte face is that fit snugly into the pattern With Ave cut-throats he way- "Passon" Blood was over Blood threatened the King, say of history, some of them laid the Duke's coach and the grateful and three days later ng that the rest of the gang would murder him if Blood, were Duke was overpowered. Blood's returned to the Tower with a pipe dreams.

white

executed. It is a flimsy theory It remains one of the plan was to string his old enemy present-four pairs of world's mysteries,

up on Tybura gibbet, but the gloves for Mrs Edwards. The cause, regardless of the out- coachman raised the alarm and Keeper and he became quite come, King Charles must have after

a tremendous struggle the friendly,

had

some special · reason to and Blood let it be Duke escaped.

known that he had a handsome agreeing to see him in the first place. Also the chances of the A. Royal

Proclamation went young nephew with a substantial out offering a thousand pounds income who would be a fitting King being attacked were for his capture, but this, tar match for

remote. Talbot Edwards'a

Thomas Blood

was born from dounting Colonel Blood, pretty daughter.

until his lungs wore out and no in Ireland, probably one could get it to him.

He will survive for just

in seems only to have encouraged The details

his next, and most during, ad- Dublin somewhere round

venture.

there and

Another theory is that, hidden. inside the Sceptre was a copy were arranged of the Secret Treaty of Dover them ant Blood which Charles had made with as about the year 1620. His It was within a few months-- agreed: to being the nephew Louis XIV and that the King father had an iron works on May 9, 1871--that he made early on the morning of May 9 knew that Colonel Blood must and was reasonably well-to his attempt to steal the Crown Miss Edwards was peeping out have seen it when it was sewn Jewels trom the Tower of of the window, hoping to catch in half and that he saved Blood's

long as the Russians decide that

it's a good publicity bet to show

the

world how peaceful are its

intentions towards Its neigh-do.

i

And think. in 321st as long as Juho Fansidvi can keep taling tion and early life we know dressed as a Doctor of Divinity. effectively.

nothing. He first came into in a false beard and accom- But he is an old man. And no one else in Finland has ever the pages of history by panied by a woman whom he had much luck with the siding with Oliver Cromwell pretended was his wife, visited the Tower to see the jewels. Russians,

and becoming eventually a The woman feigned a fait and

Of Thomas Blood's educa- London.

.A: day or so earlier Blood,

YANKS LIKE ENGLISH GIRLS

From Ralph Roland

glimpse of her possible has life in exchange for his silence. band-to-be, when Blood with But the most likely theory of three other men called at the all is that King Charles was so Jewel House. Two of them went short of money that he was in

Blood with

to call on Talbot Edwards and the third, whom Miss Edwards assumed was the shy lover, remained some dis ave tance away. In fact he, like the |other two cut-threats, was one of Blood's confederates. All had mpiers in their walking sticks, daggers in their belts and pista?l« in their pockets.

Blood explained to Talbot

CHARLES

they may don't wear shorts, many of that kind around thest, wrong women wear sincks Jeans and as he led the way into the coinciilence and sold romani

dont wear "pedal-pushers ?

London. And slacks? Well, only if a bas just folshed making a fim, Edwards that his wife had been NITED STATES servicemen girl was pretty slim and had the "A Yank in Ermine a story slightly delayed and suggested the plot to steal the Crown UNITED

bere marry about 300 Enz- right kind of legs-long and about a GI who inherits of that while waiting for her they Jewels as in fact the instiga, lish girls a month. And it's a shapely. And, unfortunately, said earldom doesn't blame GIs for all in the time by having a look-tor of t safe bet that most of the girls Mr Chandler, there weren't very preferring skirts to slacks at the Crown Jewels Old Talbot Thefimely, murival of, young Said he "So many of the Edwards: took them upstairs. Edwarda seems too much of a and days wen drain-pipa

John Barrymore J., son of with an untucked-in shirt tools room where the jewels were. Edwards and the son were after- it has been reckoned by "The Great Profle," agreed that horrible on men but just in-

kept they attacked Him, struck wartis given grants of tw chris have such pretty him with a mallet, threatened dred pounds and one hinderd that if he shouted, they pounds, Wes old Edwards, who here

they they prefer say

Maybe a sidet dia, affract a soft complexions that gil beemme they are stien

"feminine.

GI-but what attracted him just should always wear feminine would kill him, and then began was at the time as badly

putting the reer hig-name Americans in as much was the way English clothes

aded their names to the girls:

・But when it got down to dead? - the « swagt bank tyle Jewels into"-injured, by mailet blows on hi

head us he pretendra arenite so their girls

spoiled-- br, thet réally

tween the pay more attention to English girl English

slacker For an unofficial poll that seve

that several women were made for dresses, describable on women. Irundred American servicemen not trousera,

"English

and

Raymond

The Crown had the

nicks rost-flat foret: It

the

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their men just the sanne (way, i fell from the setting. The old said Lloyd-only the

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whio, khon M

Laeems possible:

the plot

trance and that the expe was not his. To prove this body was dug up from its grave In Tothill fields and then identi- fled at an inquest before being finally reburied.

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