Urho Toivola

Urho Vilpitön Konstantin Toivola (until 1906 Kröger; 17 October 1890 – 11 September 1960) was a Finnish journalist, Member of Parliament and a diplomat.

Toivola became Editor-in-Chief for Turun Sanomat from 1925 to 1937, in the Elanto newspaper from 1937 to 1938 and also in Le Nord magazine in 1938.

In 1930, as a member of a delegation of European journalists which also included Felix Salten, invited by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he visited the United States and wrote a book on his journey, Aurinkoista Amerikkaa.

After joining the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Toivola was the Head of the Ministry's newspaper Department from 1938 to 1939, and Head of the Information Center in the Council of State in 1939 and Chargé d'Affaires of Finland to Oslo in 1940 and during the Continuation War as Counselor in Washington from 1941 to 1944.

As a widower, Urho Toivola married a second time in 1951 to Rachel Ilona Kansanen who had a Bachelor of Philosophy degree.