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Ideology WHAT is the meaning of "ideology"-that ugly but powerful word 7
Strictly speaking, it is the "science of ideas", but nowadaya it is used to describe the various
fierce political creeds which have swept great nations and govern
we
are
This is the country pledged to
P
OLAND is Europe's sixth largest
eountry, barring Russia. The 32,000,000 citizens of the Polish Republic are not all Poles..
The Poles form 70 per cent. of the population. Nineteen per cent. are Ukrainians, 8 per cent. Jews, 3 per cent. Germans, and there are oddments-Rus- sians, Czechs, Slovaks.
The Polish-Ukrainians are jealous of the Poles dominating position, just as the Slovaks envied the Czecha. They speak a Slay language, similar to Polish, but with many differences. They are Orthodox Churchmen, The Poles are | Roman Catholics.
Many accuse the Poles of having deliberately tried to destroy Ukrainian culture. When Ukrainian M.P.8 propose local autonomy in the Polish Parlia- ment they are called traitors.
The Ukrainian agitation was stimulated after Munich by the emergence of a quasi-indepen- dent State of Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly known as Ruthenia)" at the tail end of the late Czecho-
Slovakia,
"Poland, to live, has
to balance between Germany
and Russia."
fight
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
KOPOLIAN FORRIDOR
WARSAW
SOVILNA
ROFANA
JISCHEN
HUNGARY
CARPATHO -ORKAINE
RUMANIA
for
for Polish Independence during the war.
They are called "The Colonela' Club." Colonel Beck is ono, al- though he was a sergeant in the leglo. Marshal Smigly-Ryda," Commander-in-Chief of the army, and virtual dictator of Poland, is another.
BECK'S policy has favoured Germany
since Hitler's shadow fell on Europe. His principle was that the best way to handle your enemy is to make a friend of himi. But even Colonel Beck and certainly the marshal have abandoned this now.
Most Poles hate the Germans.. Some violently, like the Pollsh land, tried to seize the Russian Western Leaguers, who want to Ukraine without success. He out-Hitler Hitler, and annex the grabbed Vilna from the Lithua- half-million-odd Poles living in nians and took Upper Silesia Germany. from the Germans by plebiscite. The army officers trained by
the French tend to be
*pro- The Polish eagle became a vul- French. Also the intellectuala ture again at the break-up of and peasants. But, above all,
When Hitler made a ten-year Czecho-Slovakia. It retook Tes-
France and Poland signed a This fragment was a rallying non-aggression pact with Colonel chen which the Czechs stole every Pole is wildly pro-Polish: treaty in 1921. It aimed at fit- point for nationally minded Beck in 1934 he put the Corridor from them after the war.
The Poles are a proud, brave, ting Poland into France's ring Ukrainians in Poland and Rus- problem in cold storage till 1944.
tenacious race. Compared with round Germany, but Colonel sia.
German propaganda, en- But he abrogated that pact. couraged them to hope for Perhaps he did not think he Western Europe they are socially Beck's policy hamstrung the Ukrainian State.
would settle with Austria and backward. Outside the big cities treaty. Czecho Slovakia
As for the Russians, the Poles 50 quickly, peasant and landlord live in an
distrust them as much 'as they German almost feudal relationship.
а
Poles.
field.
IN the confusion after Anyway, the present
the great war, u denunciations of the "brutal- Aristocratic magnates own 60 do Germans. They do not for- Ukrainian State actually had itles" suffered by the German per cent. of the land. The pea- get that Bolsheviks once knock- existed, briefly. Ukrainians in minority have an unpleasantly sant, while gathering the wealth ed at the doors of Warsaw after Poland and Russia declared their reminiscent ring.
from his master's soil, is lucky the war,
Poland, to live, has to balance independence, only to be crushed
It has been suggested that to eat meat a few times a year. by the Poles and Bolsheviks res- Hitler will do a deal with the The peasants are three-quarters between Germany and Russia. pectively.
return for the Corri- of Poland. They are largely If Germany and Russia fight The hope was dimmed again dor he would drive an alterna- followers of Witos, peasant each other, Poland is the battle-
leader who, before he was exiled, when Hungary helped herself to tive Polish outlet to the sea the Carpatho-Ukraine recently, through Lithuania. But that is was a leading figure in Polish po- friends, they might decide to
Witos returned to Poland- sign that the Poles want to for a blemish-free record get domestic quarrels now.
A Polish Foreign Minister's front, is not actuated either by Poland's greatest problem as regards land grabbing. Un Witos was exiled when he life is a nightmare any way you affection for or antagonism to now, however, is the German satisfied with the territories came up against the real rulers look at it. forms of government different minority. It is small, just be- granted at Versailles, Pilsudski, of Poland. They are a set of No wonder Colonel Beck is
low a million, but fairly com- tough old maker of modern Po- courageous patriots who fought rarely known to smile. pactly situated along the Ger- man frontier and in the Corri-, dor. It is largely Nazi.
all their actions,
Let us be quite clear upon one vital point. Britain, în trying
But it still burns fiercely in rumour. many Ukrainian hearts and makes an embarrassing problem
to create an anti-aggression for Polish statesmen.
from our own.
The vast majority of British people are indifferent to alien ideologies. The systems favour ed by other peoples have never counted in the direction of British foreign policy until they have threatened the gener- al liberty.
The Corridor was sliced out of the German cake and given to Poland by President Wilson and Clemenceau at Versailles as an outlet to the sea. Without it Poland is a land-locked State, her overseas commerce at the mercy of her neighbours.
A hundred years ago Peel denounced the conception of a "war of principles." Canning scouted the idea that it was In the Corridor lies Danzig. "policy to hold no communion It is a "Free Port" under League except with States which supervision. Its population is possess free Constitutions.”
predominantly German. A Nazi "Live and let live" is still the local Government runs it now British policy.
under orders from Berlin, not Genova.
The Poles
xeem
POLAND herself has not
There
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BRUSSELS
COLOGNE
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WAS
litics,
Are
If Russia and Germany make
divide Poland between them, as they did once before in the eighteenth century.
The Dutch Defences
O SUBVESTILL, SHENRY
a
Plans for the military defence of Holland
are This being, tightened up. article explains how. Dutch military strategy is de- signed to frustrato surprise attack from Ger- many by mechanis ed columns in an attempt to over-run the Netherlands in a matter of twenty-four hours.
They are garrisoned in new barracks at Grave. Hedel, Heusden, Doesburg, Zutphen, Zwolle, Ravenstein, Box- mcer and other towns.
Within a few hours of an alarm a front line force of 70,000 would be at the frontier.
The annual number of conscripts has been increased from 19,500 to 32,000 and their period of training has been lengthened from 544 months to 11 months, and it is estimated that out of a total population of only 8,000,000 Holland could on general mobilisation throw an army of over 1,000,000 men into the field.
In southern Holland the River Many forms a natural defensive line
which stretch 500 miles from the along the border. But there is no Alps to the Dutch border..
No British blood or treasure will be spent in supporting or
to have opposing any foreign "ism", but, reckoned with losing Danzig for as Sir John Simon recently said, some time. They developed the "Britain will fing all into the near-by Polish port, Gdynia, scales against the overweening with French money. It now demanda
of any ambitious tyranny."
handles moro trade than Danzig. Poland has just refused to dis- Democracy's Pleas
cuss Danzig with Hitler.
such natural frontier in the north Britain
so it is probable that the northern But few people doubt that WHEN Great IT IS interesting, In view of Pre before long Danzig will follow
It adds a further 200 miles to the provinces would be quickly over- sident Roosevelt's recent plea to Memel into Hitler's Reich.
threatened by a Napo-existing line of fortifications and run by an invader, Iconic invasion Hitler (so violently rejected by the
a.chain of completes the Great Wall of Europe If this happened the Dutch forces Kelch Fuehrer) to note what Pre-
concrete would in all likehood talk back on. sidents of the United States have the population of the notorious jour eastern and southern coast."
tection to the Western democracies forces along the River Maas one said before at vital points in his Corridor is mostly German. The The Dutch ore to-day completing a
against Germany.
atraight defensive line from the tory.
Poles place the German popula-similar line of small pil-box forts Outstanding occasions of inter- tion as low as 10 per cent.
The first move to remove
south of Holland to Zuyder Zee. facing Germany along their eastern temptation that Hitler might have to, Dutch troops who might be too vention in world politics for pence, which we quote from a recent issue establish on any Central Euro- Some 40 of them have been built. vinces who looked across thele fron- of the Zuyder Zoc.
True figures are difficult to frontior.
attack through Holland came from far north to Join this line would es- Dutch citizens of the eastern pro- cape across the northern causeway of the London "News Chronicle", pean frontier because the fron-Equipped with artillery, anti-tank tier and saw the Germans building In the event of the plll-box line
1905.-Theodore Roosevelt during tier fringe is bilingual. Its lan-uns and machine guns they com- barracks
and new roads. Burgo-breaking the Dutch would the Russo-Japanese War sent a note gunge changes with its masters. the German frontier and the bridges the Duch Government to give them oldest and
mand the main roads leading from masters of frontier towns petitioned on Amsterdam and call ол to the two Powera concorned. At Many Poles who awear they across the rivers Moos and Yazel his suggestion they met at Porta- cannot speak German would be which flow parallel to the frontier. protection. mouth, Now Hampshire, and discome fluent German speakers if
If you take German figures Martello towers was built along bristling with guns to give land pro- the River Yssel to form with
-a wall of steel and
were:
cussed terms.
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most trusted
the
retreat
their
ally-the
So Holland embarked on а го- These strong points, with their arrbament programme-a Lilliputian carefully worked out felds of fire affair compared with the arma pro- and their underground ammunition grammes of the Great Powers sea against the troops of Spain in The Dutch opened the dykes to the dumps, are garrisoned day and night;
The Dutch Government decided the time of William the Slient,
1906. Conference called by Pro-Hitler took thm. The contrary sident Theodore Roosevelt. German is true as well.. and French Governments discussed Mediaseteenie at 'Algeciras the question of THE Poles have a good green Netherland, troops who live in that the best they could do was to against the French when William of Morocco. Peace, which had bean' in
historical claim to the newly-built barracks in the frontier prepare against the dreaded surprise Orange ruled, and to-day the Dutch the balance, was preserved,
rotas, and provide just enough tire-people are prepared if necessary to [[Corridor." It was a Polish pro- towns. 1914. At the outset of the war, vince for hundreds of years be
some fortifications to hold up an open them against the Germans, President Wilson, tendered hin ser fore the Germans' took it more
Invader until outside help came from There are plans in exloteneo which Belgium, France or Britain-for the can be put into effect in three hours vices for mediation at once or at any future time to all European Powers than 150 years ago.
The river bridges are alreads. Dulch cannot belleve that Britain to blow up dykes and sea walls, ta involved.
But Hitler could stir up trou- charged with dynamite, and can be would allow Amsterdam and Rotter-flood a wide belt of country from the
blown up at few minutes "notico. dam to fall into German hands, 1938. On Soptember 20, Prosi- ble for the Poles--and, now, for In this way Holland not only dent Roosevelt appealed to Berlin | 14 among his brother Germans guards herself but keeps her share and Prague, and "also the Govern- in the Corridor at any moment. of the Watch on the Rilas. For the ments of Britain, France, Poland We are familiar with his tactice purely nailonel detence. It la the
chain of pill-boxesis manithan a ghee the line of pill-boxes. and Hungary, not to break off from Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, logical conclusion the Magindi tallons of 200 men have been famed
T-konty-five as-called Second Bale pink negotiations in the Czecho-Slovak
in and the Berlin fortifications to man the defence line permanently. Stuart Emeny
crisis:
and Memel.
| Zuyder Zee to the Belgian frontier.i Behind this flood the Dutch forces would stand in defence of Airister» dam. And nf a great deal - – more than that,