POLAND'S SPIRIT OF HIGH NATIONALISM
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934.
Unsubdued After Years Of Cruel Suppression
PLACE OF PERMANENCY
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. your fellow-countrymen wonder continually," I replied, "whether alap sudden-
TN the ever-changing.pageant of
Itairs the night has recent..the friendly siap may not be
ly centred upon Poland as Europe's he said tersely, "Poland will be.
latest Wonderland. The cold-ready."
no
shouldering of the Eastern Locar The recent demonstrations in Pact and Colonel Beck's Warsaw and elsewhere in favour "minorities" outburst at Geneva of Poland's gesture to the League are the signs of a change that has of Nations have no doubt been suddenly made Poland à rentre of astutely engineered. But they in- world speculation.
dicate only too clearly the temper of the people and the strength of Marshal Pilsudski's following.
NATIONALISM'S WINDOW.
After an extensive tour of the country I find the Poles Mare united thun at any time in the Ins!. 15 years on a policy of semi- political and wholly spiritual isola. ilon from the rest of Europe.
A visit to Poland is intensely We have no
Intention of huminating. In this newly coming, the battle-ground of the created State can be seen all the next European war" This is how qualities and the defects of nation- a prominent oflein in the Polishnism. Among all classes is die- Ministry for Foreign Affairs sum- pinyout a fierce national pride.
re-
Turkeman troops at the manoeuvres in the Kars-Kun desart in Russian. Turkestan where the camel is indispens aable for viders of the sands.
med up for me Poland's foreign on an hotel portor told me with BAND LEADER'S
policy, in itself a sure reflection of the opinions of the people.
Polish opinions is to-day more Intensely nationalistic than that of any other European country. Everywhere in Poland I have found an epidemie of "isolationism".
Poland has supplied coal to Great a touch of the arrogance that Britain during the General Strike,
Recently there has been held the first congress of Poles from al Parts of the world and patriotie celebrations have taken place in { Warsaw and Cracow,
At the moment Poland The She is suffering from an inferiority poor relation of the Great Powers,
'complex which is sometimes mand. fested in an appearance of over.
My friend in the Polish Ministry described it as "absolute dete mination not to become entangled in A foreign alltapre, And in this connection it is very native. able that opinion in Warsaw sweeting rapidly stiffening nikainst Freuch influences.
NO CATSPAW.
Poland is no longer custent in he the entspres of French states. manship. She aims to rank as one
This charming little film star in's new pose, is everybody's favourite
Miss Shirley Temple.
self-confidence, Ner
LIBEL CLAIM
RESENTS CHARGE OF RACKETEERING
TERM MISUNDERSTOOD
roads are amongst the worst lo Europe and she has no money to
"I am afraid that my education |improve them. But inquiring the
Bas not covered a study of the way we motored we were Aneirisan laturuage." remarked Mr. variably told that the road was destes Swift, in the King's Bench; good in Poland but with a shake Division, London, when eminsel at the hrad a Lithuania It is suggested that His Loralstrip might fl aequninted with the meaning of
The wised "racketeer,”
Iran
WILL TO SUCCEED
The nation is poor but it has lite
Mr. St. John Field was aurones will to succeed. Last year it was for the settlement of a Bol action decided to valse at Internal lowes! Which Mr. John Wesley Vivian 19 £1,000,000 by means which chise Payne, the woll known dance handy My resemble à capital levy. The learn, professionally known
result was the splendid total Jack Payne, has brought against £100,000, Yet even in Wars Mr. Leg W. Hunt,
مرزوز
the people buy their cigaretten in Afr. St. John Peld stated that jones or twos because they cannot, the defendant was an instrument-
alford a packet
Falls in nether orchestra and was The sympathy, and understand also a journalist.
Ob of ing of all nations must go out to activities had been the contribu- Poland. She has her defects button articles to a monthly Ameri she compels admiration. For can paper entitled the detronome, fcentury and a half the country has which hal a circulation in this been under foreign domination, country, In the November issue | During the whole of that time the of that paper, Inst year, there
Polish patriots worked
over the defendant's to regain appeared ||their inilependence. They rebelled | "ignature a series of accusations and were brutally crushed. They and statements about Mr. Payne rebelled again. The war continued which he was bound to challenge. for them f81 1921. Their country • Counsel said that he did not wish WILA ceaselessly ravaged. Bat their spirit was never crushed,
Today Poland has a permanent place on the map of Europe.
of the Great Powera. One of in numerable minor causes of fric- tion between the two countries was the complaint of Poland, that Frane had old her Inferior war; material. The latest source of its ritation is the Eastern Lart Pact.
This does nat inply, however, that intelligent Pries are not conscious of the dangerous posi tion of their country, lying it dorn between Germany and Russia, They know very well that even if she is not the powder-box of Europe, Poland is sufficiently sur rounded by dry linder to make her fear the intent spark.
Hence the growing interest dis- played by all classes in Polish diplomacy, and, above all, the in- ercased support for the age-old polley of maintaining peace by pre- paring for war,
BEER PLENTIFUL
to read the words, It was sufficient to state that they implied that Mr. l'ayne was a racketeering type of hund-lemler,
"Your Lordship perhaps knows that the American word racket or 'racketeer' is very unpleasant in deed," said counsel.
Lordship-l
afraid.
fi
BUT MILK SCARCE ME St. John Field, in my aduca
"GOOD LIVING" TO BE EXPENSIVE
GERMANY WARNS GOURMETS
of
AIR SERVICE TO 1,000 ISLANDS
AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS PLAN
The Australian Government. ¡ having referted a tender for the Australla-New Guinea seaplane, service now contemplating enl |ing for others,
IMPERSONATES HIMSELF
NOTED AIRMAN'S
DETENTION
An extraordinary incident Chertsey in August, when Mr. E. L. Gandar Dawer, managing director of Aberdeen Airways ladi. Dyer. Aberdeen, WIA
The Government is also consider.alleged to have been nerested fur inpersonating himself and öfter- ing forged cheques, in his own name in the Chertsey district, was recalled at Marylebony, London. recently during an action against The main chatred with the real ¡impersonation.
In the Japanese town of Kyoto which recently was damaged by * serious typhoon, the world's largest temple bell is found. It is 52 metres in height and weighs 700,000 kilos.
ing a proposal to establish a civil Gen has not covered a study aviation base at Rabaul for a the American language.
Government-owned service which Mr. St. John Field- I hope that would provide aerial communica- your Lordship will accept the tions for a thousand islands in the Statement from me that racke-Bismarck archipelago, it has just teering" is very unpleasant been announced. word indeed. It is applied to
smuggling. banditry, and kidnap
ping
ask for damages.
it appeared that last Aprat Mr. Gandar Dower last a suiteuse eon- taining two cheque los from his fear in Piccadilly. Later, while be was dying in the King's Cup air race, a man unknown to him was alleged to have impersonated him at the Chertsey Bridge Hotel.
In August, white flying from Newcastle, Mr. Gander Dower flooked a ruor in advance at the Chertsey Bridge Hotel. On arriv jing about midnight he was met by two police sergeants and detained, It was alleged, on a
charge of uttering forged cheques to various firms in the district. He ex plained that he was in Aberdeen when the cheques were passed, but it was 2 a.m, before he satisfied the police and was released.
AFGHANISTAN
JOINS LEAGUE
FIRST FRUITS OF SOVIET ENTRY
The Sixth Commission on Sept. 26 unanimously voted in favour of the League." the admission of Afghanistan inte
ffer entry may be regarded as the first-fruits of Rassin's member-
Mr. Payne, he said, was compelled tent to accept the apology and not ship of the League-as her candi Ju lasue a writ, and the action was
dature has been, it is reported, en- for a time defended, but wiser-
couraged by Turkey, asalsted by Whatever the German may have counsel had now prevailed, and Hunt, said that his effent realised
Mr. A. 7. Dennlig, for Mr.Russia. to go without this winter he will Mr. Han had consented to with-that owing to a misunderstanding not have to forgo his glass of beor. I draw his defence. He had al- he made the statement complained The barley neessary for beer pro, ready published an apology in the of. He now wished to withdraw duction and for other industrial | Metronome, and his counsel would the statement unreservedly, and to purposes can easily be secured say in open Court that Mr. Payne apologise to Mr. Jack Payne and from the total harvest of summer
never wanted to make money out express hie sincere regret to him. barley,
of the action, and was quite von-i Hla Lordship assented.
has been extraordinarily
The weekly report of the Institute for Bushiess Research suggests that it is not the German people, but Gerninn cattle and poultry that will in an exhibition now being held go short of Tood, for the harvest at Warsaw Polish prosperity is de- af fodder crops herts, carrots, as pleted as resting upon four pillars, well as pasturage, hay, straw, and
Financial Stability, an indepen (chiff) dont Foreign Policy. Permanent poor. Peace and Large Army. The guardian of the four pillars is Marsha! Pilsudski, Poland's mili- tary leader and virtual ruler. In name Poland is governed by a national bloc, but from behind, very much behind, Pilsudski puils the strings.
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MYSTERIOUS STATESMAN.
This means that there will be a shortage of such animal products as milk, cheese, and eggs. Of meat, on the other hand, there will be more than enough, the scarcity of fodder will persuade farmers to send an abnormal number of cattle to the slaughterhouse. A plentiful supply of fish is also promised.
He is almost the mystery states. man of a "thriller" novel. Saldon gourmets that "good living" la The report indirectly warns seen, seldom heard." have only likely to be expensive, if not im- Heen Marshal Pilsudski twice in possible. "The supplies of veget- the course of five years," A foreignables will probably give no cause diplomat atationed in Warsaw told for uneasiness," It observes, "for a
"and during that time he has resort is possible to the
not made more than three types of vegetables (white cabbage Poland's military die. and carrots).. which in previous years could for the most part be used only for fodder purposes."
but hip is thus well disguised, and act, none the lens very real
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There are other guarded hints of an almost en conscious hore of forthcoming makeshifta distasteful love in the retie anxiety to be to the gourmets. There seems to "Before the Pggression Pact. be no danger of there not boing an industrialist I was told by enough food to go round in Gor "Germans and Poloper Silesia, many during the winter. But speak to one anothuld hardly people will often have to put up slap each other on the Vow they with crude and adulterated forms But of food.
French Morrocan troops, railing during the
Sir Dennis Bray, the Indias was among the first to welcome the representative, said his country application of the Independent kingdom of Afghanistan. India re joiced that another milestone on the roat to universality of the ¡League had been reached.
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