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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 like the son of peasants he was proud to be. His name meant "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.

Kposti Kallio

born in 1873. 1008

After a skrtchy, haphazard education ho entered politics in 1904 as a member of the Finnish Dict. 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-was a law known as the "Lex Kallio" which split up oversized estates 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- nish Dict with 38 cars service to his oredit.

1987.

Kallio was elected President of Finland on February 15,

President Kallio remained all his life a pensant at heart. Consequently, he was popular in a country whose 3,600,000 In- habitants are largely peasants themselves. His wife run a model farm near Helsinki, the capital.

Finns called him "The First Peasant". 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, begun, as first peasant, the long task of rebuilding his peasant

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them. Few would dispute the right to that title of the grand old song, "Rule, Bri- tannia"! Wagner, the German composer, and a sincere 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 poet Southey, welting in the days before "God Save the King" had become our National Anthem, sald of "Rulo, Britannial": "This will be the political hymn of the country as long as she maintains her political power. And hosts of other writers have paid similar tribute to its stirring grandeur and beauty.

To-day, in the year of its two hundredth birthday, the song has taken on a new and deeper meaning tor us. Our Navy has in the first months of the war shown that Britain still 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 at war to-day.

Those proud familiar strains were heard for the first time on August 1, 1740. The scene was the grounds of Cliefden House, near Malden- hand in Berkshire. It was then the home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and on that night the cream of early Georgian society had gathered there in colourful epstunics to hear a new másque 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 Augiasta.

The masque was called "Alfred," and told of that great king. Arid Its anale was the song that we now kupw as "Rule, Britannia!" The performance was such a success that it achieved the rare distinction of being repeated by the Prince's command on the following night, but that role. It was pub nothing to the triumph of the grand lished 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 "Rulo, Britan nial" for two poets collaborated in the libretto of the masque to which it belongs. One of them was James Thompson, whose poem, "The Sen- Rony," is one of the classics of English verse. The other was a lesser, almost forgotten

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