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NE day recently, in a sheltered corner on the North Devon coast, I heard two young holiday-makers discussing the state of affairs Europe..
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It is almost an axiom in Fleet Street that British citizens on holiday talk only of the.triviall- ties of the moment and read only detective stories and the weather forecasts in the newspapers.
That this is not now true, if it ever was entirely true, of Bri- tish holiday-makers is probably due to the fact that few of us, whether at work or at play, can escape altogether from the im- pact of public affairs. They touch us too closely: and they continue to be more dangerously exciting than the most thrilling detective story ever written.
THE last war caught us unawares. The next one may come suddenly, in the night. But not one of us will be able to say next time that he has been caught unawares. Nobody will dare to say it. The writing is on the wall; in the very skies, for all to scc.
Those two young men on the
Hongkong Telegraph. beach at Woolacombe were fully
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The Menace THE POWER of Hitler is best exemplified by the sickening suspense that grips the world just prior to one of his periodic speeches.
alive to the fact that they were living in an exceedingly perilous world which might at any mo- ment plunge them into personal disaster. What one of them could not understand was why it should be so.
EUROPE
Says A.J. Cummings
"I don't see that there is any- thing to fight about," said he. "Anyway, what country wants to attack England ?”
"Germany," said the other. "But Hitler is showing almost every day how anxious
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Covenant, with the backing of 50 nations, against Italy; thereby destroying wantonly the one effective check upon inter national gangsterism and lutting loose the Hitlers and Mus-- Bolinis to wreak their vengeance upon law abiding neighbours and create turmoil in Europe.
THE British diplomacy, if such it can be called,
ls to buy from Hitler, if it can, a temporary peace in the West and let the East of Europe go to the devil, in the vague hope that the devil will keep bis bargain.
This is a half-hearted version of the policy of "splendid isola- tion,"
.
"the simple slogan with which Lord Beaverbrook has been trying so insistently to seduce a not so simple public. Lord Beaverbrook's theory is that if he were dropped quietly into the lions' enclosure at Whipsnade, and the lions were fighting madly among them- selves, he would merely have to declaim the magic formula, “Me for splendid isolation," at the same time showing his teeth, and the lions would turn away in respectful awe and go on tear- ing each other to pieces.
Britain would have about as good a chance of keeping out of any major war started any- where in Europe as Lord Beaver- brook would have of escaping from the Whipsnade lions.
Britain's
Already the European lions ure lashing their tails. Already Hitler is organising a movement to divide Europe into two hostile 'camps. Already Mussolini is re- ported to be working harmoni- ously with his fellow-dictator to unite Italy with. Germany. Hungry, Poland and the Little Entente in a holy war against Bolshevism. That means that Fil dozen European Now another speech, his ad- he is for our friendship and good tion at our command, and Berlin present himself with a hopeless at least
still remains the real storm- vacuum and probably sign his nations will be lined up for zero dress to the Reichstag, has
ning for a "localised" war. come and gone. The world
"Eyewash. He means to lull centre, the main anxiety of own death warrant as a ruler, hour, which is not a bad begin- breathes more freely at his ns- us to sleep and then at a favour- statesmen and their military ad-
our visers.
E has set the machine HE surances that there will be a able opportunity go for
If Germany were to renounce
of war in motion. He WHAT is long period of peace, until it is colonies."
answer to be to the That is an exact transcript of to-morrow her claims to "expau- cannot stop the war machine Hiller has remembered that
an interesting scrap of conver- sion" in Eastern Europe, the in- because he has nothing to put in German war bloc? followed previous
We know that the British assurances
surance rates on war risks which its place, and nothing but the with actions that, have ended antion which reflects much of the
confused apprehension among have been rocketing skywards laborious construction of this Government wants to limit its peacefully only because
de-decent, peace-loving people to- would slump immediately to sub- gigantic machine to offer mil- "risks" under the Covenant in with treaty-breakers; normal. But Hitler's Germany lions of German unemployed. dealing mocracy has retreated before the day.
The man who said "Germany" is determined, in her "national He makes so many insolent and we know that it is rearming menace of the mailed Ast.
interest," to re-make parts of and provocative gestures at the nation with more "The sword was not neces-was both right and wrong. Ger-
even his own than it has shown in any other sary." in the year that has pass- many does not want to attack the map of Europe; and Hitler Russin that ed. Hiller says, because Britain us; and I do not believe that knows that in a world in which generals, are alarmed lest the field of statesmanlike endeavour. But naked re-armament, and France saw eye to eye with Germany would pick a quarrel collective authority has sagged anti-Russin war which he en Germany's claims, "We did with us about her lost colonies., almost to vanishing point the visages should come before their though it may help us not to not threaten anyone." he con- Some time ago a leading Nazi first requisite for re-making the armies are ready to take the lose the next war on the field of battle, will certainly not keep tinues apropos the September journalist suid to me: "English
map is It vast military do- field. crisis. "We only defended our-politicians are mistaken in think- minance.
Hitler has Russia on the brain. war even at arm's length." selves against an attempt by afing that the crucial question for
A cool-headed foreign observer, third party to interfere." Germany is a colonial one or that Many of the photographs of
Blood Transfusion could be Then, significantly: "I need it
an insuperable Hitler unposed reveal the melan long resident in Germany, told not assure you, that in the obstacle to Anglo-German friend- choly, careworn features of a me once that in his opinion only future, too, we shall not tolerate ship. We intend as a great man not invincibly sure of him a miracle of European states- any attempt by Western Powers Power to establish as a recogni- self and his mission. He is no manship can prevent Hitler from Every 1.1/2 Minutes
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N to interfere with affairs which sed principle our right to the Mussolini to look at.
(as he hopey) of his own choos-A ambulance drew up outside the Middlesex Hospital In London solely concern us, for the pur-colonies of which we were de
Yet, even though his dreams ing.
recently and from it was lifted pose of preventing natural and prived, but we do not intend to
The British
bearing Government stretcher
lie was reasonable solutions."
fight for them because they are might be disturbed by doubts
the camially Is the inclusion of Memel in not a prime economic necessity, about the final outcome of his appears to be acting-or, rather, middle-aged man.
the swiftly through the greater Reich to be "a Our aim is not colonial expan- present policy, could he renounce remaining passive — on
that this conflict Behind the merival lay a dramatic natural and reasonable solution" sion, but expansion in Europe." that policy now without personal assumption
disaster? To abandon now the when it comes, can be localised. story of a fight by two of the difficulty there? Wi For a number of reasons I the Polish corridor provide the think the Nazi journalist was practical philosophy of "Mein Mr. Baldwin, in the supreme keep a man alive by transfusing one next territory necessitating a telling the relative truth. His Kampf," screamed forth from a crisis of his political life, shrunk drop of blood into his arm every one "solution"? Will the territorial explanation
Journey over frozen roads, thousand platforms, would be to from applying the League and a half minutes during a 70 miles. sufficiently was
The patient, William Halcrow, integrity of Rumanis be violated alarming to justify the young
G8-year-old printer, had been lying Kettering District General Hospital for nearly six months.
severe haemorrlinge made his condition critical, and it was decided to transfer him to the Middlesex.
But would he be able to stand the journey to London?
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reaching the Black Sea? Will keyword. Czecho-Slovakin, or its autonomi- ous province of Ruthenia. be forced to submit to German "de- fence against attempla by third
mediate cause of world parties to interfere" with the
rearmament. There is not a establishment of a Ukrainian re-country in Europe-not even public 7
Poland, Hitler's uncomfortable Herr Hitler does not say. In eastern ally-which is not sus- ranting of the injustice of picious and fearful of Germany's Germany being called upon to policy of European "expansion," "pay immense tributes in re-backed by military forces grow parations and at the same time being deprived of her Coloniesing day by day to undreamed-of
proportions. as an outcome of the Great War,
If by the waving of a wond he is discreetly silent on the subject of Germany's treatment one could eliminate Germany of Rumunia and Servin when as a potential cause of war of they were forced to enpitulate the grand scale there would be to the Central Powers, of the nothing or little for civilisation stupendous claims which Russia was forced to agree to when 'she Will any person of unbiased was beaten and sued for peace. intelligence deny it? Let us not Fine words. Hitler is discreet, also, regard deceive ourselves, ing his claims for former Gor-butter, no parsnips. All the flat- man colonics possessed by Italy teries lavished on oflleially con- and Japan. He makes no men- ducted tourists-from English tion of the unfortunate Germans public schoolboys to Ministers of who are now a minority in Italy. the Crown-all the raptures of For Italy and Japan are his returning visitors over German allies. In the East, the Japan- kindness, the wonder of Ger- the new roads and esc nation, which in the last many's
6 years has sol so many punctuality of her trains; all are examples of glorious heroism, is placed in their proper setting by undoubtedly fighting in the one speech by Hitler service of civilisation,"
Which, we think, sums up the Nazi conception of civiliantion,"
to fear in the coming years.
Bestow on the Germon people. and their leader all the good. will, and the friendly considera
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Dr. L. C. Liddell, house physician at the Kettering Hosplinl, sought the advice of the medical officer at thr Middlesex.
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It could be done, it was decided, but Holcrow would have to receive constant blood transfusions during the journey. That, too, was possible. Four Kettering blood donors guve their servicna, and
Mid- two young dlesex Hospital doctors went by train 10
10 Keltering to accom pany the man on the journey and keep him alive, by transfusing. 40. drops of blood into his body, every hour, until London was reached.
FOUR HOURS', JOURNEY Because of the treacherous glátu of the ronds the ambulance had (s. travel at less than 20 m.p.h., and the Journey took four hours.
Sergeant Major John Miller, of the Kettering Division of the SL John Ambulance Brigade, said that throughout the journey there were heavy snow-storms,
The worst part was from Rushden to Bedford," he gaid, "but Driver Bull kept the ambulance well on the road,, despitą, frequent skids caused by ice palclies.
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The apparatus for transbusing the blood was brought up to Kettering by the two Middlesex doctors It was a simple arrangement glass pipetter and' rubber, Lüblog, but it was la Ime. portant that the rate of the unn- alone should, bo regaints 2ARED
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