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American authorities would later on wink if these
pilots joined the Finnish Air Force. I endeavored to
make new contacts in various parts of the country,
and a friend in Stockholm promised me that he would
engage the Americans in his firm.
It was with renewed hope that I made
preparations to leave America and return to Sweden. During
my efforts to secure planes and pilots for Finland,
I became interested in leading a fund-raising
campaign for the purchase of an American ambulance.
This was a much easier task, and the personnel and
material for the ambulance was soon ready for
shipment from America to Finland via Sweden. I
took the Italian ship ”Conte di Savoia”. When I
reached Paris after a week’s journey I found a
telegram from a colleague in New York, informing me
that our problems were at last being solved. We
needed only ten more pilots and he asked me to try
to engage them in Paris.
I turned to the Air Attaché at the British
Embassy, and asked for his assistance in engaging the
required number of aviators. He was very interested
and explained immediately that it would not be
difficult. In Paris there were a good many Polish
pilots who were inactive for the time being, and who
undoubtedly would be interested in employment.
Much encouraged, I returned to my hotel.
I was suddenly stunned, however, when I read the
headline in the Paris Soir. The Moscow Peace had
been concluded and the Finnish Winter War was over.
Our project was now worthless, and I cabled New
York with instructions to discontinue further
preparations.
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