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shallow for use by the largest vessels, States would b but it has been' stated that it will be of the Baltic m turned into one of the strongest naval remote to the pe fortresses in the Baltic.
Finland was m neighbours, hav Into the forefront of the Memel's chief function, however, only on one fr negotiations for a defensive will be as a submarine and destroyer experienced yèz base. If its return to the Reich should fore she was al alliance between Great Bri- be followed by that of Danzig, Ger- govern and reb tain, France, and 'Soviet many's command of the Baltic will Russia there, have been pro- jected the fears of Latvia, Estonia, and Finland.
threaten all the Baltic Powers, and es-
pecially Foland.
WAR-BORN NATIONS
In Estonia, L the struggle wa longed. During 'í ple had fought Knights of the Situated perilously between the It is in this region of the Baltic coast Swedes. In 1917 rivalries of Nazi Germany and Soviet some of the most sweeping political fighting Russian: Russia, the concern of these Baltic changes were wrought by the Great the so-called B States, above all, is not to allow them- War. A little more than 20 years ago, Germans, who selves to become embroiled in power Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Fin- feudal style on politics.
-land did not exist as States. They were
simply the outer fringe, well tacked And after the down, of the great Russian Empire. was over, these Up till 1918 all the innermost coasts shape themselve of the Baltic were under
Russian been vestibules sovereignty.
railways, ports, fashioned to ser hind them. They
The return of Memel from Lithuania to the Reich has accentuated rivalries in the Baltic. For Memel, in the cen- tre of the Baltic, commands the ap- proaches to the coast of all the Baltic States, and to Leningrad and Kron- In the first early years of civil war stadt. At present its harbour is too and Invasion the possibility that these rebuild, often
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Citizen Defence
Sir John Anderson, when asked the other day whether it would not now be appropriate to change the slogan "We must be prepared" into "We are pre- pared," replied that, for all the splen- did response to the call to national service, the time had not yet come when effort could be relaxed.
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Since last Sept gress has been m
holders have been told that it would trouble, complicati greatly facilitate the task of ensuring of organising the distribution of coal in the early period of an emergency if they would lay in extra stocks now. A leaflet has been issued on the subject of evacua- tion measures, another will follow on food supplies in wartime, and two ment of defence; If preparedness, so far as the public have already been circulated on the put of munitions, is concerned, could be regarded as use and care of gas masks and the sonnel, in the de attained merely by the enrolment of screening of lights. Nothing could be plans to minimise all the recruits needed for the mili- more important than that everyone bombardment, or tary and civil defence services, the to whom these various instructions of supplies. All t answer might have been somewhat apply should note carefully the res- ously increased different. Although there may still be ponsibilities laid upon him and carry security and it m some gaps to be filled it is broadly true out each detall of the advice offered. a determining fat to say that in this respect Britain is The householder who neglects to re- tween peace and already prepared. But, as the Prime gister in an evacuation area, to screen to accept heavy- Minister remarked in a broadcast at his lights in a trial “black-out," to lay dertake onerous the beginning of July, "the civil popu-, in emergency stocks as directed, or to has shown a mag lation is nowadays right in the front see that the air-raid shelter issued importance of th line, and it has become the duty of to him is in its proper position is com- by each single every citizen to help in the defence mitting a grave dereliction of duty buting his quota of the home front." Something more towards the whole body of his fellow cannot be over than registration is required: nothing citizens,
often repeated.
less than an intelligent understanding The bomb that is directed to its search his conse:
target by an unscreened light may self-and each w cause dislocation of an essential pub- role of the wom lic service as well as death, injury or in what manner Hardly a day passes but some new material loss to the delinquent's neigh- responsibility or
of the job to be done and a willing- ness to conform to any plan devised for the common good.
request for co-operation is addressed bours. Every unregistered household- way due to him
to the citizen. For example, house- er in an evacuation area is a source of to proclaim, "W
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