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the history of the world. Finland has seen her mission in that she has stood as the outpost of Europe in the East. She has received the blows directed against Scandinavia. Now she has warded off, perhaps, the most dangerous, at least the most treacherous, attack of the East. She does not count on gratitude for this deed, but she counts on sympathy. No person in Finland is glad at the misery the Red insurrection has called down on the Labour Class. Nobody sees a triumph of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat in the victory of the White. The victory in one respect is of mighty, of positive, significance in that the Russian influence has now been beaten down. And to build up the new, independent Finland it is needful that this influence shall be wiped out for ever; just as it is needful that every citizen learns to obey the law, and consider himself as a member of the community. That is the condition of Finland's becoming a real State—a Western culture state and law state.
