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Land of Sorrow HERR HITLER'S troops have
necupied large areas in Pu- land; Goering's air force has massacred thousands of men, wonten and children.
But Warenw, with its match- less heroism, still interrupts Hitler's view, as the Nazi dieta- tor (his official News Agency tells us) soars 3,000 feet above the battlefields on an aerial tour.
From his plane, Hitler sees a land of serrow, He sees the graves of thousands of young Poles, the flower of their country.
He sees husbandless women and fatherless children. He sees the little graves of the boya and girls his other aeroplanes have killed. He sres desolate fields. and ruined towns.
And_perlaps_more terrible,_he. sees loathing and fear and hatred, which he and his country- men have earned.
It is Hitler's monument. Hu began the killing. He opened the sluices of destruction. By his decision, and by his decision alone, he brought this-upon a peaceful country.
Before Hitler's advancing troops, the hurrying refugees have been machine-gunned on
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yeurs to Belgium, which likewise was conquered by brute force.
It would be too much to expect that Poland can save herself from being overrun, unless she can obtain allies who will permit British and French reinforce- ments to reach her through the Black Sen.
But Poland overrun will be a Poland unconquered. German troops were in possession of Belgium for nearly four years in the last Great War. Belgium suffered terribly. But her name is firmly secure in history as a nation which yielded not aggression. So with Poland.
There will be a day of reckon- ing for Hitler.
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The British British At
NIX NATIONS have so
SIX
far declared War Germany,
on
Their ties are the ties hat bind democracies.
One of these nations is France.
The soldiers
Commonwealth War
by-
NORMAN STOCKTON
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New Zealand
Mr. Michael Joseph Savage has been the Prime Minister of a So- cialist Government in New Zealand for just over two years. He is 07 galaxy of countrica who believe There is nothing to prevent
and unmarried, framework of a democracy is an monwealth-even nations that co-operation within the other nations joining this Com- ed in a country store, did irrigation Before entering politics he work- ideal that must be maintained. do not desire to render allegiance reached political eininence through:
which work, and became Unlike the League, the British to the King. Commonwealth
The others are the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. To-day, under the Statute of Westminster, no ties but the ties of a common Kingship bind these five latter nations together.
They are the five countries-tain-that-bond- who have agreed to become a Commonwealth
miner. He
the trade unlun movement, and is a strong advocate of co-partnership methods. Responsibility developed
maintains that ideal, because each of its members places its trust in the others and H HERE are brief biographies of in hân a high standard of Imperial
the Premiers of the member statesmanship. nations of the Commonwealthier of New Zealand ho saidt.
Shortly after taking office as Pre- men who wield pover equal to that wielded by Mr. Chamberlain:
each has ristned its word to main-
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or League of THE remarkable change in rela Nations, each of equal fooling tionship between Great Bri- and each bound to the other by in and the Dominions was their love for an English King brought about by the Statute of
Westminster, and a Scottish Queen.
Within their own boundaries
they are supreme. Although the United Kingdom was at war, the other four nations were
neutral until each declared it self at War.
Its acceleration was made possi- ble firstly, by the Great War, and more recently by new and quicker means of communication.
Canada
We are bound to the British
tics people by unbreakable
of blond, to say nothing of trade. We can build in New Zealand, and we Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, the
can lend a hand to the British Canadian Prime Minister, is head of Commontealth at the same time: the Canadian Liberal Party, and
The first act of his new Govern- succeeded Mr. Dennett, the former ment was to make a gift of £100,000 Conservative leader, after a record for distribution at Christmas among October 1935. He is 05, was bom lu arong isis Ministers, under which his victory at the Canadian polls in originated salary sharing plan the unemployed. Subsequently he
Canada, and is unmarried.
as
own salary was reduced to £800 a
of
is said to have had the effect of
South Africa
South Africa's new War Premier
To-day, Mr. Chamberlain picks He is a short, dark, stocky man, up the telephone at No. 10 Down who carries his head best slightly year plus £250 for extra cost ing Street and is connected within forward, and looks steadily from entertainment.,
Another innovation he introduced a matter of seconds with the beneath Such is the omnipotence of
shaggy eyebrows. Over the Parliaments of each of these Prime Minister of any of the Do- there he is known as the politietan was the grades is an on the
broadensting of reports of Democracies that one-South mimons. They talk like friends with the perfect "poker face" and
a master of political strategy, Africa-very nearly decided around the same table, and have against war.
One of his greatest gifts is his -Hreatly increasing the attendances of Another-Camda done so many times during the
ability to surround himself, with inembers. competent, loyal, and acceptable entered the war nine days past few weeks.
London is now the exchange for public men as Ministers. after Great Britain.
the whole world in the matter of Canada-with but one short inter-
He held
the Premiership of wireless telephone conversations, ruption from 1921 to 1030, and is famous General Jan Smuts, the as vice-President of the most notable soldier-statesman of the other traffic of five continents Assembly of the League of Nations all the Dominions. When Premier speaks to Premier upli in cleared to give them immediate at Geneva in 1928.
He was born near Cape Town and He attended the Imperial Con- after taking a double first in the If Mr. Chamberlain wishes to King George V's Jubilee and King to Transvaal and became State At-
ference in London in 1923 and 1920, Law Tripos at Cambridge, returned. speak to the Prime Minister of George VI's Coronation. He is
torney under Kruger. Then came Australia, or to the Premier of Freeman of the City of London since the Boer War, and h New Zealand, on intimate Imperial 1923. He is also a Freeman of leader he was second only to De affairs, it is done in secrecy over Sheffleld, Manchester, Rnd Edin Wet in the campaign against the
burgh. the longest telephone circuits in the world.
AS with Britain, the King must accept the advice of the Ministers of each of his Do- minions.
They maintain their own Navies, Armies and Air Forces. They, and they alone, say what taxes they will raise and how they will spend them.
If they decided to become Re- publican, they have the constitu- ilonal power to do so.
There was no reason why Aus- tralia or New Zealand should not have declared war on Germany before Great Britain did. A Dominion could declare war on an-
mained neutral.
other country while Britain re- There is no more limitation to the power wielded by the Parlia ments and peoples of each of the Dominions than of the House of Commons in London.
communleation.
Australia
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After the Union-Government was
became formed he
Botha's right Mr. R. G. Menzies, who succeeded hand man, and it was largely duo CONVERSATIONS between the the late Mr. J. A. Lyons, as Austra- to his firm action but the
King and his Ministers orig!- In's Prime Minister, was born in in wholesale deportations terminat-- labour troubles which bod a climax. nate In London because the King Victoria in 1895 of Australian pared without disaster. is in London. But when the King ents.
He became a recognised authority At the outbreak of the 1914-18 wont to Canada just before the war he became King of Canada, on the Australian Constitution, which War Smuts was a lower of strength.
was formulated in 1901 when the to Botha and the Empire, His and the calls originated from six Australian States became a Com vigour and military Ottawa and other centres which monwealth within themselves. Be responsible for the quick capture of he visited on his tour.
fore entering Federal politics he was Germany's African colonies."
acumen
were
In Australia or in South Afrien, an active member of the State He was one of the leading pro- King George is not King George VI Nationalist Party in Victoria and for ponents of the League of Nations. of England. He is King George a while was Acting Premier of Vic- which he first suggested to President toria. He entered Federal politics Wilson. He fought gallantly to up- VI of Australia, or King George VI in 1934, and less than a year later hold the prestige of the League and of South Africa. It is almost cer- attained Cabinet rank as Attorney sought wider powers for it. THESE are vital facts about the tain that Princess Pilzabeth, when General
Last week General Hertzog was relationship that exists to-day aho succeeds her father to the During three Governments he was Prime Minister of South Africa. He- between Britain and Dominion and Throne will, in this age of modern the right-hand man of Mr. Lyons declared for neutrality. Smuts between Dominion and Dominion. swift travel, bo crowned in each and he was regarded as the biggest forced the question on to the floor
man, mentally, in the
Lyons of the Assembly, defeated his leader, The British Commonwealth, in of the five capitals of the Empire Cabinets, fact, is what the League of Nations → London, Ottawa, Canberra,
He is known to every Test cricke- and South Africa went to War. sought to be—a loosely welded Wollington and Cape Town. ter, and loves nothing better than an the world's most remarkable men..
At 00 years of age, he is ona of?