7, 1939.
WATCHES
UTHRIE
(E NONOUR
AUGUST
E RACED.-A memorial cairn to the late Jimmy Gu- man Grand Prix in August 1937, is to be seen on the uthrie won, so many T.T. races and first became fam- he Guthrie Memorial on the Isle of Man.
Austria or the Government had blessed in 1925 lea that German and Hitlerite Germany had recog- udetenland should nised as valid earlier in 1938. Clio bitration under a may well smile. itish Conservative
I have known the Poles and their
RMY, AWHEEL-Cadets at the Royal Military Academy, dergo an eighteen months course of training which in-
, cycling and physical training.
of
A necessary part ent is the bicycle, which they purchase themselves. Photo rs in the making. An unusual picture of cadets at the
their "mounts.”
?
By George McManus
THE OPERATOR SAID YOUR SON REVERSED THE CHARGES ON THAT PHONE CAL THE AMOUNT IS THIRTY DOLLARS-
TO HEAR
YA BABY
Of
affairs for more than 35 years. When things go well with them they are apt to be refractory to any discipline. When things go ill they sink all, their differences and stand together. On their record since their reunion in 1918 more than one blot can be found. these the latest was their flank at- -tack upon stricken Czecho-Slovakia in October last year. But of their right to Pomorze, the misnamed "Corridor," and of their vital need for free access to the sea along the Vistula and through Danzig, no fair-minded judge can feel any manner of doubt.
* * *
Readers of the late Lord D'Abernon's "Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World" will not have forgotten how a weak Polish army cut through the flank of the Rus- sian Red Army near Warsaw in August, 1920-and-saved-Europe from what might then have been truly a "Red peril." The Polish army is no longer weak. Germany knows it. Herr Hitler knew it in. the summer of 1983 when rough- tongued Marshal Pilsudski, who, as a dictator, knew how to talk to dictators-asked him whether wanted war at once, or in years, or in ten, and added that Herr Hitler could have it whenever he liked. Herr Hitler answered by. negotiating the non-aggression pact he denounced on April 28, last.
he
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The turn in British policy is due to tardy recognition that war be- tween Poland and Germany would mean general war in Europe. Herr! Hitler's suppression of Czecho- Slovakia on March 15. helped Bri- tish wits to grasp this elementary fact. Now British policy has gone, and may
still have to go, much farther toward "collective security" by means of "automatic commit- ments" than it would have needed to go if Austria and Czecho- Slovakia had been supported last year, Here too, Poland was es- It had pecially blameworthy. "secretly promised Germany to aid neither Austria nor Czecho- Slovakia.
If Clio smiles to-day it may be because she knows that there can be no freedom or peace In the world on the principle of limited liability. She understands that the question of Cain sounds ill on the lips of statesmen responsible. for the welfare of their peoples.
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