Reinhold Svento

Svento, also a member of the Helsinki City Council, also acted as a five-times electoral in presidential elections.

Svento did not believe the importance of ideological issues in foreign policy and he favored a neutral balancing between the great powers.

As a Foreign Minister in April 1948, Svento was a member of the Negotiation delegation considering the Finno-Soviet Treaty.

In September 1955, he was a member of the delegation led by President J. K. Paasikivi, with whom the Soviet Union agreed to return the Porkkala Base back to Finland.

Reinhold Svento and First Foreign Minister Carl Enckell often used to talk and exchange correspondence with each other in Russian.

Their daughter Marina married Lieutenant General, Mannerheim Cross Knight Martti Miettinen.