Finnish Civil War
From 20 February, 1918, till 5 March, 1918, Walden was chief of Vaasa military district. From then till 6 May, 1918, he was chief of headquarters of the rear. He then became chief of security of the occupied areas until 22 May, 1918. On 28 November, 1918, Walden became minister of war and held this position until 15 August, 1919. Walden was then promoted to commander in chief of the Finnish army and the Civil Guard (27 November, 1918 - 30 December, 1918).
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“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
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Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:—
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
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