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Finland, and he promised to do so. We secured
competent assistance through him and his colleagues,
who tried enthusiastically to develop our project.
One Saturday morning a number of people arrived
at my New York office and asked to see me. They
were young Americans who Colonel Sweeney had
urged to contact me. They wished to be engaged for
voluntary service in Finland. They had with them
extremely good references praising their earlier
activity as pilots in different South American
revolutions. For a couple of hours we discussed financial
details and the possibilities of going to Finland. I
recall commenting to my secretary, as I left the office
that day, that it was a great relief to know that
something was finally happening. Little did I know,
however, what that something was.
The next day one of New York’s leading
newspapers telephoned, requesting an interview. The
editor wanted to discuss the sensational article which
appeared in The Daily Worker, the leading
Communist paper in New York. When I failed to understand
him, he read the most essential parts of the
twocolumn spread, complete with the headline: ”Nephew
of King of Sweden Agent of Mannerheim”. It proved
that the men who had come in to see me the previous
day had somehow heard of my activities, and by
presenting false papers and references, they had
succeeded in learning the preliminary details. I had
been completely fooled, and once more had to suffer
bitter disappointment. Unfortunately, American
newspapers now began to show excessive interest in
my work.
I did not intend to give up so easily, however, and
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