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'Phone 26615 May 8, 1939
Lion and The Lambs
COLONEL BECK'S speech on
Friday has dispelled the con- fusion about the precise under- standing regarding Danzig. It means, in effect, that if Germany attempts to employ in the Free City the methods that gained her possession of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and Memelland, Poland will resist with all the forces at hor disposal. Be it remembered that the forces at Poland's diapo- wal now includes Great Britain and France,
So far so good. At the same time the hope of everybody re- mains that the Germano and the Poles will settle their differences amicably.
I S THIS THB PICTURE OF TH B
YEAR?
RUSSIA
does not want
WAR
|HERE are long queues at every street corner in Moscow. It is not bread people are waiting for-it is newa.
The latest edition of the evening paper will soon be out. Russians want to know what is happening in Germany and Poland.
Every one feels that war may be precipitated or substantially postponed according to the out- come of the present moves in these two countries. Russia does not want war. It is prepared to defiant aggression lay behind the make almost any concession in order to maintain Polish Foreign Minister's defence peace. But war is believed inevitable and pre- of Anglo-Polish policy, and his Įparations are being made accordingly attitude throughout has boen-one.i
It can
be done. No hint of
of rectitude and repression.
IN 1936 the Soviet Government spent more than three times its Budget
It is inconceivable that anyone wants to go to war either on the estimate on national defence. It budgeted for an issue of Danzig or the Polish expenditure of 1,665,000,000 roubles, Corridor, and there is no reason It spent more than 5,000,000,000 roubles- why discussions should not take that is about £100,000,000. At the same time a place between Berlin and Warsaw great campaign was begun to rouse the Russian which might result in settlement people to the need of still greater expenditure. of the trouble without negotiation.
Poland, as Colonel Bock has They were warned that Japan was spending revealed, is not intransigently 46.5 per cent. of its. Budget on armaments, while opposed to any form of negotia- Russia spent only 10 per cent. Since then the tion. On the contrary, the tradi- military estimates have again been doubled. tion of Polish foreign policy and the outlook discloned by Colonel Beck suggest that they will always keep the door open for conciliation.
The key to the entire eltuation,
These figures mean very little. They do not include the cost of civil aviation. They do not include the construction of tractors that can be transformed into tanks.
They do not include the doub-
as wo nee it, is Russia. The vitalling and trebling of wages and, it may be decisive part offered to skilled engineers as an Russian co-operation must play in inducement to migrate with any effective attempt to solve their families to the danger Europe's problem is obvious,
zones in the east and south.
There have been specific assur- ancos that this fact is appreciated by the British Government, which
They include only part of the cost of building entire new cities
"Russia is prepared to make almost any concession, for peace.
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preparations Bre being made. The tractor drivers are given special training with military service in view.”
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"is doing everything in its power the strengthening of national possessed by its people ranks along the castern frontiers with technical skill and initiative
to foster I."
defence as their main raison- very high. d'etre.
the military strength of Russin The only way of estimating
It is the outward and visible sign that I am a crack shot with a rifle. Considering that any time I play darts I am as liable as not to miss even the board, I feel a bit unworthy. But it wAH presented to me in deadly seri- ousness by a group of students in Gorlovaka Mining College, Don Bas.
As I was preparing to leave,. the students marched into the hall in military formation and carried out this
little ceremony. To Russian youngsters these are no matters for jesting. They are learn- ing to shoot, not for the fun of it, but because they believe that some day. soon Russia may be
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drawn into war. the countryside this feverish preoc. cupation with military matters
is as strong as in the cities. Every collective farm has its _sports_organisa.
tion, responsible. for drilling the peasants.
On Russia's large farms tractors are uni- versally in use. The newest trac- tors are conver- tible into tanks. The tractor drivers are given special training with military service in view.
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THE other day a Derby-
shire girl decided to.
train
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Every trac- driver is regarded as R potential tank and tank driver. Soviet authorities frankly ad- Even the children have caught mit that here is the most vulner- the infection. I watched able side of Russia's defences. group of them listening to a Stalin, In an address to students radio speech. Afterwards there in a military academy put the was much excited discussion. position baldly and forcibly: They had been act a problem in With skilled technicians in military strategy and invited to sufficient numbera, Russia is in- send in their answers. Lame on both feet." vincible. Without them we are On a given date the correct
solution was to be announced. But the quotation was made
It is on
this question that nearly a month ago. Actions are
Russia is now concentrating. more credible witnesses than words.
THE German soldier
against whom they every nerve to develop a popula
The Government is straining Unfortunately, there is evidence
a parachutist. This that the contacts between Britain stock of its entire, resources. strength is a deadly and scien- technical officiency. The entire in the English Press as "news." measure their tion with a high degree. of was so unusual as to be reported or any other country is to take may have to and Russia have not been as close Russia is well aware of that.
tific killer. Among Germans or as frequent as they should be.
It also knows that among
there is a surfeit of skilled nation, soldier and civilian alike, In Russia auch sports, requiring.
is in training.
A high degree of daring and in- While Britain dilly-dallies with nation's resources the degree of chemists and technicians. In 1914-18 the Germans killed three
In Russia there is no sense of.
itiative, have long ceased to be a of the Allied soldiers for every The one merges into the other will see thousands of people în sharp division between the two.
novelty. south. The military alliance with her, she won't attack them. These two of their own men who fell. The army is associated with a
Any day in the summer you Italy, announced this morning, is a States, in signing agreements on powerful weapon that will finally this basis with the Reich, cannot planning with all that in mind. organisations covering every ing from specially constructed. Russia's High Command is notwork of semi-military sports the city parks, parachute jump- decido on which side Yuga-Slavia's fall to recall with some trepidation The Rod
that similar assurances were given broad in buttered. Shaas wavered regarding Austria and Czecho- thoroughly
Army has been school, farm, and factory in the towers. This is the preliminary
modernised and land. since the annexation of Albania; she Slovakia,
mechanised. The most advanced must now join the xls camp in The German lion naks the lambs models obtainable anywhero in sheer self-preservation,
Meanwhile, Carmany concludes ficulty for the lambs is that they
compulsory In all fled parachutists. A young unilateral
There is only one doubtful Russian colleges. The students waitress in a restaurant I some non-aggression pacts cannot be sure whether the lion point. Having been given the the women as well as men times ate in was impatiently with the Baltic and Scandinavian inside to down by its ence technical equipment, does the usually compete for the Voro waiting to take her final
or inside it. The unhappy experience States. She promises them indivi- of some of Germany neighbours Red Army Boldier know how to shilov marksman's badge. I examinations. D dually that if they won't link auggests the latter.
make the best of it?
PLEASE Tum To Page 5.
Russia, Hitler is consolidating hils. position in the north and in the
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part of their training.
Two of the chambermaids in
to lie down by its sido. The dif-the world have been purchased. MILITARY training is my hotel in Moscow wore quali-
have one of those myself.