The Archive · 1939

Composition of New Cabinet

Helsinki, Dec. 1.

m. Risto Ryti, former Governor of the Bank of Finland, today is Premier of Finland according to the official Cabinet list published this evening.

laces M. A. K. Kajander while M. Viano Tanner, the Socialist Finance Mi in the late Cabinet and onetime Premier, took over the Foreign Affairs portfolio from M. Elias Erkko. Baron Ernst von Born, Chairman of ihe Swedish People's Party, becomes new Home Minister and "M. Julio Niukkanen, War Minister in the Kajander Government, retains his portfolio; he belongs to the Agrarian Party. M. Pekkala, ce-Chairman of the Social Democratic party's Diet Group and formerly Minister of Agriculture, assumes the Finance portfolio, while M. Soduhyelm, of the Swedish People's Party, is the new Justice Minister.

M. Julio Kusti Paasikivi, one-time Premier who recently headed the Finnish delegation which carried on long parleys in Moscow, enters the Cabinet again as Minister without portfolio.—Havas, "Willing to Negotiate"

New York, Dec. 2.

"We are willing to negotiate every issue that may ari Risto Ryti, the new Finnish Premier, in a broadcast today. "But prepared," he continued, our independence or rights to decide cur own affairs" The Finnish people, the Premier went on, demanded the right to continue in complete political Independence.

According to a Paris radio report, the Finnish Minister in Washington has announced that Finland would continue to pay annuities on her war debt.—Reuter.

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