High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti (8 October 1881 Jyväskylä 4 August 1945, Palo Alto, California) was a Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Finland 1919 1922 and 1936 1938 and a member of the Finnish Parliament 1913 1918 representing the Young Finnish Party (Nuorsuomalainen Puolue). Since 1919 he represented the National Progressive Party (see, for example, Sakari Virkkunen, "The Presidents of Finland", volume I, Helsinki: Otava Publications Ltd., 1994). Holsti represented Finland in the League of Nations. He was also a republican (opposing the then ongoing movement for monarchy in Finland). A firm supporter of democracy, he openly criticized Adolf Hitler at the outbreak of war. Holsti worked for newspapers in Hämeenlinna, Lahti and Helsinki together with his friend and school companion Joel Lehtonen. The friendship ended abruptly when Holsti recognized himself as the satirically portrayed and fictive politician Rolf Idell in Lehtonen's book Sorron lapset (1924).