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called Anti-Comintern Pent, which is in reality an anti-Geneva nnta- British, anti-French, anti-Rus.'an' and anti-American combination.
Communist irritants, in country, have constantly antagon- ised the Labour Movement and stood in the way of whole-hearted friendly co-operation with tho Boviet Union. It would be an not of practical wisdom, worthy of the successors of Lenin, now to dis- solve the Comintern, and many of its constituent parties, including the British,
Of the internal record of the Boviot Union, part would have delighted Lenin, but part would havo appointed hiat.
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Telling Japan
HASTILY, Japan has now apolo- rised for the violution of Hongkong territory, has promised indemnifica- tion for the dead and wounded,
What happened in Tokyo yester- day to bring forth this quick mani- festation of penitence after the almost contemptuous way the affair Way treated ON Tuesday and Wednesday?
We know that the Japanese War Office on Wednesday afternoon is- sued an entirely untruthful version. of the incident, in which it claimed that only one plane had violated British territory and that only one bomb had been dropped. The com- munique, again untruthfully, claim- ed that an apology had also been made to His Excellency the Gov- ernor in Ilongkong.
Yesterday's apology comes from the Japanese Foreign office with a celerity that has been equalled only by the apology for the bombing and sinking of the U.S.S. Panay. It occurred after the Japanese For- clyn Minister had received a visit from the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie.
It emphasises the world that exists between Japan's civil admin- istration and its armed force. No one believes that the Japanese Gov- ornmcat wants these perpetual de- mands for apologies that have brought upon it the contempt of the civillard world. But the Japanese Government has for Jess control over its Army and Navy than has the Shanghai Municipal Council over its terrorista. It must go on apologizing as its irresponsible mili- tarists' go on creating incidents, with the fear ever present that one day in the not-so-distant future there will come an incident that will not be answerable by All apology,
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At the Tomb of
IFTEEN years ago, Lenin died. To his Tomb, in the Red Square
of Moscow, pilgrims come from all over the Soviet Union, and from all the ends of the earth. In homely words, literally true, they come to see Lenin."
The Tomb is fashioned of great slabs of the most beautiful marble, from the Urals and the Ukraine. all red, though with rich variety of shade and grain. The roof is fặt and all the outer surfaces are smooth, free of all ornamental fusa,
Two young soldiers of the Red Army stand on guard at the ea- trance, and two more in the chamber within, a little below the level of the ground, where Louin's body lies embalmed, under a high glass case, it by a mellow golden light diffused from above.
Behind this perfectly propor- tioned Mausoleum rises the high wall of the Kremlin, over which flies the Red Flag, floodlit at night, It is a magnificently theatrical
scene.
I saw Lenin in August, 1932. I gazed into the peaceful face, tired but content, and marvelled at the littic shapely hands, folded on a cloth of purple and black.
A tew days later I also heard Lenin. His voice was high-pitched and Insistent, speaking сд a gramophone record in the fat of Bokolnikov, the Ambassador whom Moscow sent to London to response to Arthur Henderson's Invitation in 1029, and whom Moscow sentenced, in 1937, to ten years' imprisonment, as a member of the so-called "anti-Soviet Trotskylte centre."
LENIN was a very great
man. In critical days his personal intervention changed the course of history, But for him there would have been no Union of Socialist, Soviet Republies.
I. in 1917, his opponents in Russia had prevalled. a general break-up of that vast country
havo would probably
followed. under weak and indecisive Liberal Governments, drifting into a wel- ter of reactionary chaos.
Lenin's greatness lay, not in his theoretical argumentations, but in his practical genius as a man of
instance, it is possible that the in-A
eldent is far from closed. Great Britam, it is believed in London, Is preparing to follow its formal pro- test with the despatch of the blunt- ost Note she has addressed to Japan aince the conflict in China started nearly two years ago.
It will probably say in diplomatic language that Great Britain will not stand by if the irresponsible militarista who really control Jupan's policy continue to do. liberatoly encroach further and further on our rights and violate our privilegen,
Britain, this time, may mean business.
Insofar as Hongkung is concern- ed, we would like to see the Japanese
Church Service.
Banned
Holy Com- PROPOSED munion service for Anglicans and Nonconformista, to bo con- ducted by a woman minister, has been cancelled.
The minister was to have been, the Rev. Hilda Peppman, who has bad: charge of a Congregational Church at Newhaven.
The service was planned to take place at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, dur- ing the conference of the Spelety for the Ministry of Women-an inter- denominational body.
"NOT AUTHORISED" Ridley Hall is a Church of England theological college for the instruction of ordinanda; the chapel is licensed
Becrated.
publicly warned, as the Spanish In-by the Bishop of Ely, but not con- surgents were warned by France, that any future acis of violence in our territory will be mbt with vin- lence. On the occasion of the first violation of Hongkong territory this warning was, we understand, conveyed to the Japanese comman- ders verbally. That, apparently, was insufficient,
The Bishop of Ely said "The pro- posed service was not authorised by me, and I should not be able to authorias it A service to bo nitend- ed by Anglicans and Free Church people would be irregular from the point of view of the Church England,"
T
HE audacions concep- tion of the series of Five Year Plans, the planning away of unemployment, the liberation of the Soviet economy from the booms and. alumps of the capitalist outer world, and of Boviet foreign trade From dependence on capitalist credits, all these are striking contributions to. practicni Socialist economica.
But, un the other hand, there aro· dark shadows in the pleatre. In agri-
Lenin
by HUGH DALTON, M.P.
action.
He was a first-class poll- ticlan, a superb tactician, a con- structive Socialist of immense courage and imaginative insight. His books are dull, but his acts were thrilling.
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When he died, he had laid the foundations of the first large-scale Socialist Comìnionwenith in the history of mankind, Ho bo- queathed to the Russian people an unprecedented
opportunity build. on these foundations, a happy, free, prosperous, classless society of equals, and, by the force of their example and the visible success of their experiment, to con- vert the rest of the world to Socialism.
QINCE then fifteen years have passed. The pre- cedented opportunity is still there, waiting to be realised. Lepin, I think, would contemplate with mixed feelings the Soviet Union of to-day.
In its official foreign policy, the Soviet Government has set an admirable example to us all. Of all the Great Powers It has been the most loyal member of the
League of Nations, the most clear- sighted and outspoken supporter of the principle of Collective Security. Maxim Litvinov, the proponent of the indivisibility of peace, has been an outstanding figure at Geneva. In March, 1938, after the seizure of Austria, he urged an international conference to determine ways and means or preventing the repetition of such an event.
His proposal was rejected by Britain and France, and a repeti. tion came in Beptember. We now walt, with growing apprehension, the next repetition.
On the other hand, the unofficial foreign policy of the Comintern, for which tho Boviet Government, not quite convincingly, denies respon- albility, has been consistently stupid and vexatious,
Guided by doctrinalres ignorant of political conditions abroad, It has multiplied il-fudged manœuvres and fomented damaging divisions within the Socialist and Trade Union movements in many coun- tries. It did much to help the triumph of Mussolini Italy and of Hitler in Germany,
́It ́ ́ has“ furnished a convenient pretext for the creation of the so-
culture and trans- port, la particular. there evidence of grave and persistent muddle often mis- called "sabotage."
the Moreover, in last few years, there has been increasing, difficulty in obtain. lng accurate, Arst- hand Information. There has been a surprising and unex- plained decrease in facilities for visit- - ing the Soviet Union. In London. Soviet viens were scarcely to be had: last year. Nor are Soviet citizens yet permitted to travel freely abroad.
The new democratic constitution: exists only on paper, and the pressurO“ of the Dictatorship on the individuni. acems not to be reintod, The Soviet emblems today are not only a hau- mer and sickic, but a gigantic- question mark, What is really going. on inside that closed community? And what is the direction of move- ment?
ET three dominant Im- pressions remain.
Planned Eocialism, even though the pinnners bave cometimes miseni- culated. And even though they have to work in very diicult conditions, lias great accomplishments to its credit
The Soviet Dictatorship, whatever may be sold in criticism of it, holds more possibility of peaceful change into more Democqule formu than do other contemporary Dictatorships.
And, finally, the Soviet Union, in sharp distinction from these other Dictatorships, is a force for Pence in International relations. It plots no wars of aggression against its neigh- vours. It is a defensive, not an offen- sive, force.
For this reason, above all, it has been ong of the most criminal follies at British foreign policy since 1931 not to co-operate more closely with this most peaceful Great Power. It is not yet quite too late-though the sands are fast running "bul-ila" repair this: folly.
Finance Juggler No. 1
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JALMAR OREELEY has becní
HORACE ECHACHT Germany's
neatest Ananelat acro .bat. He made his name in the 1923 collapse of the mark when it needed thousands of millions of marks to buy a single, loaf of brend.
Schacht was made president of the Reichsbank, founded a new currency and announced that people would be given one now mark in exchange for every 1,000,000,000,000 old ones.
In those days he was a democrat, a man of the Left. His first job had been tutoring the sons of a Jewish banker. From that he had risen slowly to be partner in the firm of
Jacob
well-
Goldschmidt, the known Jewish banker.
But as years went by, Schacht As president of the changed. Reichsbank he dropped his Liberal Ideas and enjoyed picturing him- self as the mouthpiece of big finance.
In 1929 ho resigned from the Reichsbank because The Hague. conference decided to make Ger- many go on paying reparations.
He retired to his country estate at Guehlen, near Berlin, "to sit stlil and raise piga." He became Bercely anti-Socialist. The Nazis began to cast their eyes on him,
When they came to power in January, 1933, they called him back to his old job at the Reichsbank. They made him Minister of Eco-
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"Out of hairpine again--how in thunder do you expect me to élean my pipe?"
nomics, too. He became Germany's economic dictator.
So the ex-democrat trimmed himself to suit the Nazis. He had been a keen freemason, but he resigned his membership when the Nazis started putting freemasons in concentration
camps. It has been Schacht's wizardry that has stopped Germany going. bankrupt- апу orthodox" country would have done years ago if it had been conducting itself as Nazi Germany has done.
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Schacht invented the system of prospering on debts. He likes to Owe everybody something. Then he can threaten them-" We shan't pay you back unless
In that way many of the small countries of Europe have taken their orders from him.
He has clamped on Germany a rigid Anancial control. There is no tree buying and selling of marks. as there is of pounds or francs. Bo Schacht has been able to give Germany the advantage of both on and off the gold being bot standard.
But he has riddeh uneasily. Ho has never got on with the Nazi ex- tremists. Beveral times he ap- pealed for elemeney towards the Jows. He found world horror at the pogroms prevented people from buying German goods.
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In November, 1937, the extremo Nazis managed to rob Schacht of the Ministry of Economics, Dr. Funk, a real Nazi Party man, took: over the job.
Now Schacht, 63 years old, with, his tall, starched collar, hia snub nose, his parting in the middle of his hair, his tooth-brush mous- tacho, goes altogether.
Perhaps there is now a little irony about the middle names his. peasant parents gave him. Horace Greeley the American editor who originated the slogan, "Go- West. Young Mant"
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Herr Dr. Funk, 49 years old, an ax-jonɛnalist, stout and swarthy, Goering** Yes-man," steps eagerly. into Dr. Bohacht's shoes. W.S.