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like EUROPE IS
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 eity, 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 Recurs the rights of the local popula- Lion.
"
The Statute in which the autonomy of Meruel is laid down
is guaranteed by the four prin- cipal allied and associated Powers which concluded the Treaty of Versailles with Gor- 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 tor- ritory which is historically and ethnographically German should never have been detached from Prussia.
Before long something is 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.
THE PIPES OF PEACE
SAM GOLDWYN STALIN: "You see? They include me
General with
ET us take a look at the man to whom fulls the mal responsibility for that reorganisation of the Territorial Army which Mr. Hore-Belishn announced re rently.
Here he is-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, A.D.C. to the King, and -more significantly than all the real-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.5.0.3 in France. He matched theirs with one of his own besides being mentioned in dis- patches six times.
Haileybury, Woolwich, Waziristan campaign, 1902, commanded the Wellaung Punitive Expedition 1905- 00, War Ofce 1912--that's the way his career reads in books of reference.
Then great war activity and rapid promotion. By 1018 he be- comes Deputy Director of Military
Archer Kills Bear
Lester C.
Moosonee, Ont.
a job
Operations. Next various milliary
missions abroad, lots of foreign Orders and Stars came his way. Finally 1030 sees him in his present the Army Job with a sent on Council the first time anyone in his postulon has sat there.
Su at 01 you would expect to and the General a very typical sofdler. Just another Brass lat 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 sprice and well set up. "A Ane figure of a man " 1 h uniform, and ornamented with ail 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 lets on that here is a general with Imagination, a soldier who can see another side beyond his profes- sional one. Real humour and un- derstanding Ile behind that snille. though, may be, the General tries to suppress them on duty.
Professionally, the General is a ruthless critic of ineMetency and
Time Turns Backward
With
Докобри WHITETAAN
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 genernis.
Great Falls, Mont. He was Instructed by Lord Mline, claims an archery championship of Everett J. Lease, 6, son of Thomas Stair, to investigate the lessons of
Essig, 14, of Chicago,
the re-opening of school, the Chief of the Imperial General some sort or another. Lester dis- Lease, superintendent of parks, e- the war and how far they were un Twin Island in James Bay with the same seat in the first grade that played an 1,800 pound bear he killed gan lils school career by occupying really applied to modern training. two arrows #red from 30 and 60 feet his father pecupied on his first day vastating document. It was never General Kirke produced a de- -away.
at school 21 years ago.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Aren't you carrying this ‘office wife' iden a bit too far, Mt. Snodgrass?"!
published, because it would have destroyed so many reputations, upset so many "High-ups." A few extracts have been circulated "very conndentially" to battalion commanders and those
above them.
Unblased judges who have been allowed to read it will declare " aught to be 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 General is from one site.
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. "It is not tight that a man should be out of pocket as the result of voluntary service in his lelaure hours." he declared two days after his appointment. "Conditions of servico must be made much more attractive,"
And so it was. Territorini condi- tions were at onco drastically im- proved, A great recruiting drive began. The
Director-General roamed Britain making speeches In public and talking most earn- estly in private.
The recruits started coming in faster, much better in the North than in the South. But much
better, even in London.
As he has grown more practiced
the General has developed a fair for speech-making. And vory sound democratic stui ho talks.
Naturally, he talks about "our duty to be strong." He would not be Director-General of the Terri- torials if he did not believe that. But he goes on much further.
"The only law which seems to be abeyed at present," he remarked not long ago, "Is the law of the Jungle that might is right. In these eircumstances, it is only common- sense for peace-loving nations to be ready to defend themselves, particularly rich nations like our- selves, because, obviously. the bigger the loot the bigger the templation for gangsters."
"Why are we spending all this money?" he demanded. in a recruiting perch in August, arid why are we asking the youth of the country to do their share in ensuring t Is not wasted?**
"It is because we place a high value on the freedom which is the birthright- of every Engilatman-freedom to work nut our own destiales our own way und not according to some foreign-bred dugma, freedom to air opinions, how- ever Foullah or harmful to the Slate, and willch in other countries would bring imprisonment or death."
It would be a great exaggeration to clan that the General is not an okl Tory. But he certainly seems to bellevo in democracy, tuch more so than many young Turles,
So he goes about his business, en- Joying it all with the greatest gusto. tie loven his Territorial "First line of ilefence of the British Empire he calls them. Nothing is too good for theme s up to every wily inova calculated to get the best equipment
anns for them.
Just for fun, curly this summer, he made ebtning air tour of these Listamus, Inside ten days he in- spected Territorial units ali over England, Sectland. Wales and North- em Ireland. In fact, he "pepped thing up all round."
Very seriously, though, he seems the an for fala jobs. Io will not alter or Innovate for the sake of change. His exuberance, love of netion. in con- trolled by shrewd sense.
He will bulk on the aure foundations provided by the inventor of the Terri- torial Army, that great statesman and patriot, Viscount Haldane,
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As he wrestles with the problems and personal difficulties which such reorganisation must ercale, the Oeneral wil fall back on his personal charm as much an on his renowned "drive" and energy.
That twinkling eye and whining smile, noted above, will come to hla rescue again and again. Men will come to him full of grievances and Koreness.
After he has talked to them, smiled at them, and doue his stuff" on them they will go away half convinced no is quite right and they must be silly fools.
Ho learned the technique for such interviews at home, The General, you ace, is the father of two zone and four daughters
T.D.
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