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Murmurs In Memel
like EUROPE is
MAN with boils. No sooner does one fester, burst and disappear than another appears.
This time it is Memel. The situation in that remote corner of Europe is rapidly acquiring a tension which may soon make it another danger spot to Euro- pean peace.
Memel is an ancient Hanseatic city. founded in the Middle Ages by German traders and knights. Both the city itself and part of the surrounding dis- trict are thoroughly German in character.
Obviously, then, the Nazi victory at this week's elections was predictable.
What is unpredictable is the repercussions these elections will have.
German eyes have already turned to Memel and German voices are raised in the chorus of "Memel next".
But Memel occupies almost the whole seaboard of Lithu ania, and it is the only possible economic outlook for Lithuanian
commerce. After the war it was assigned to Lithuania un- der
# special Statute of Autonomy designed to secure the rights of the local popula- tion.
The Statute in which the autonomy of Memel is laid down is guaranteed by the four prin- cipal allied and associated Powers which concluded the Treaty of Versailles with Ger- many France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan.
Neither Germany nor Lithu- ania have ever been content with the arrangement. Lithu- ania desires complete control, Germany maintains that a ter- ritory which is historically and ethnographically German should .never have been detached from
Prussin.
Before long something in al- most certainly going to happen in Memel. That something will be decidedly unpleasant for Europe, unless the Powers de- cido now what they are going to do about it.
FOUR POWER
THE PIPES OF PEACE
SAM GOLDWYN STALIN: "You see? They include me
General with
ET us take a look at the
man to whom falls the main responsibility for that reorganisation of the Territorial Army which Mr.
Hore-Belisha announced
re- cently.
Here he to-General Sir Walter Mervyn St. George Kirke, K.C.B.. C.M.G.. D.8.0., a Colonel Com- mandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, AD.C. to the King, and --more significantly than all the rest-Director-General of the Ter- ritorial Army.
Comes of a very military family does the General. His father was an R.E. Colonel. Both his brothers won D.5.0.8 in France. Hu matched theirs with one of his own besides being mentioned in dis- patches six times.
Haileybury, Woolwich, Waziristan campaign, 1902, commander the Wellaung Punitive Expedition 1905- 00, War Office 1912-that's the way his career reads in books of reference.
Then great war activity and rapid promotion. By 1918 he be- comes Deputy Director of Military
Archer Kills. Bear
Moosonce, Ont.
a job
Operations. Next various military
missions abroad, lots of foreign Orders and Stars came his way. Finally 1930 sces him in his present Job with seat on the Army Council-the first time anyone in his position has sat there.
Sa nt you would expect to find the General a very typical soldier. Just another Brass Hat' you would deduce from such a career-and you would be quite wrong.
Mind you, he looks extremely military and official. Pretty tall, he is spruce and well set up. "A fine figure of a nian" in bis uniform, and ornamented with alt the usual military trimmings- moustache, that nice weathered complexion, keen wrinkles round his very direct eyes and so on.
But his smile gives him away. It' lels on that here is a general with Imagination, a soldier who can sce another side beyond his profes- sional one. Real humour and un- derstanding lle behind that smlic though, may be, the General tries to suppress them on duty.
Professionally, the General in a ruthless critic of inemetency and
Time Turns Backward
FOTOG Adhitelaas
out of it!"
to do
SIR WALTER KIRKE GETS READY FOR ONE OF HIS FLIGHTS.
'muddling through." Think of his famous Kirke Report, which he drew up with half a dozen young generals.
He was instructed by Lord Milne, then Chief of the Imperial General Blair, to investigate the lessons of
Great Falls, Mont. Lester C. Essig, 14, of Chicago, With the re-opening of school, claims an archery championship of Everett J. Lease, 0, son of Thomas played an 1,800 pound bear he killed gan his school career by occupying some sort or mother, Lester dia- Lease, superintendent of parks, be the war and how far they were on Twin Island in James Bay with the same scat in the first grade that two arrows fired from 30 and 60 feet, his father occupied on his first day away,
nt school 24 years ago.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Aren't you carrying this ‘office wife' idea a bit too far, Mr. Snodgrass?”]
really applied to modern training. vastating document. It was never General Kirke produced a de-
published, because it would have destroyed so many reputations. upset so many
High-ups." A few extracts
have been circulated very,confldentially" to battalion commanders and those above them.
Unbiased judges who have been allowed to read it will declare "it ought to bo digested by every young soldier who may command in war and who has yet to know war."
That shows you what kind of man our Genoral is from one alde.
From another side take a look at what he has been up to since he started on the Territorials.
Straight-away he decided that unless conditions were made much more attractive, he could not hope to fill up his empty battalions. "I! is not right that a man should be out of pocket as the result of voluntary service in his leisure hours." he declared two days after his appointment. "Conditions of service must bo inado much more attractive."
And so it was. Territorial cond!- tions were at once drastically im- proved. A great recruiting drive began. Tho Director-General roamed Britain making speeches in public and talking most earn- catly in private.
The recruita started coming in faster, much better in the North than in the South. But much better, even in London.
As he has grown more practioed
the General has developed a fair for speech-making. And very sound democratic stuff ho talks,
Naturally, he talks about "our duty to be strong." He would not he Director-General of the Terri- torials if he did not belleve that. But ho goes on much further.
"The only law which seems to be obeyed at present," he remarked not long ago, "is the law of the jungle that might is right. In these circumstances, it is only common- sense for peace-loving nuttons to be ready to defend themselves, particularly rich nations like our- selves, because, obviously, the bigger the loot the bigger the temptation for gangstera."
Why are we apending all this money?" he demanded, in n resulting speech in August, and why are wo nsking the youth of the country to do their share in ensuring It is nol wasted?
"It is because we place a high value on the freedom which is the birthright of every Englishman-freedom to work out our own destinies in our own way and not according to some foreign-bred dogmn, freedom to air opinlors, how- ever foolish or harmful to the State, and which in other countries would bring imprisonment or death.”
It would be a great ezaggeration to claim that the General is not an old Tury. But he certainly seems to believe in democracy, much more so than many young Torles.
he
So he goes about his business, en- joying it all with the greatest gusto. He loves la Territorinis. "First line of lefence of the British Empire' calls them. Nothing is too good for them. It is up to every wily move calculated to get the best equipment and arms for them.
Just for fun, early this summer, he made a lightning, air tour of these Islands. Inside ten daya he in- spected Territorial units all over England, Scotland, Wales and North- ern Ireland. In fact, ie "pepped. things up all round,"
Very seriously, though, be seeing the inan for his job. He will not alter or innovate for the sake of change. H exuberance, love of action. in trolled by shrewd sense.
con.
will build on the sure foundations provide by the Inventor of the Terri torial Army, that great statesman and pairiot, Viscount Haldane.
As he wrestles with the problems and personal difficulties which such reorganisation must create, the General will fall back on his personal charm as much as an his renowned "drive " and energy.
That twinkling eye and winning smile, noted above, will come to his rescue again and again. Men will come to him full of grievances and sorentas.
оп
After he has talked to them, amlied at them, and "dope bila stuff" them they will go away ball convinced he is quite right and they must be allly fools
Ife learned the technique for such Interviews at home. The General, you see, is the father of two sorts and four daughters.
T.D.