SAFE IN FOREST HOME

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21555, 18 January 1940, Page 3

SAFE IN FOREST HOME

FINNISH COMPOSER SIBELIUS IS PROUD AND HAPPY

Jean Sibelius, the famed Finnish composer advised the United Press of America by telephone last month that he was safe in his forest home in the suburb of Tusula, outside Helsinki.

“I have two thing uppermost in my mind,” the aged composer said. “It will not take many words to express them. I am indeed proud of my people and what they are doing these days. And I am happy to witness again the wonderful way in which the great American nation has rallied to the support of Finland. That is all I can say at this moment.”

Mr Sibelius had been reported wounded as the result of a Soviet air raid. He said, however, that he was well and following developments in the war in detail. At the time of the Russian invasion of Finland 22 years ago, Sibelius held the opinion that he would become a special target for attack. Finland had declared her independence from Russia, but Bolshevist troops rßamed the countryside around the composer’s home at Ainola and he expected daily that he would be shot.

“Soon my hour will come,” he wrote in his diary at that time, “for I must be specially hateful to them as the composer of patriotic music.” However, he continued to work on his mymphonies and friends from Helsinki finally got through to rescue him. In his great tone poem, “Finlandia,” Sibelius expressed his own and his people’s great love for Finland.

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