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Russia and Poland
THE bankruptcy of morality in international relations is no
better emphasised than in the shocking reversal of policy by Soviet Russia.
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and herself bound by Puct of Non-Aggression to
State violated by the Soviet's natural enery, should directly aid in the. spoilation and dismemberment of an unhappy victim of aggres- sion.
The Soviet Pact of Non- Aggression with Nazi Germany was undoubtedly a direct incen- tive to Miller to march into Poland. But
an even bigger betrayal of peace and of Euro- pan freedom is provided by the
most
Last week Finland's Army held its ambitious manoeuvres; but only 20,000 men took part. Finland is still a corner of Europe
WHERE THERE IS PEACE
placing Swedish in the univer sities, literature and normal in- tercourse of the country. The names of the towns have been changed-Helsingfors to Helsin ki, Tammerfors to Tampere, Abo, the former capital to Turku, and Finland itself to Suomi, surely the most moiqdi- name any country could'
have.
arca
FINLAND, though ín seventh in Europe, has a population of only 3,700,000, about half that THE youngest Finnish bility, is growing by leaps and of Greater London. Yet it has produced a relatively large pro-
soldier killed in that bounds.
Wor was 12 years old. Finns On the score of commerce the portion of outstanding men. are reluctant to accept a guaran. Finns Have one big bone to pick Sibelius, probably the greatest. tee of their territory by a recent with us. Britain, they feel, is a living musician, tops the list. enemy against a Power with little too apt to ignore the possi- but in art, architecture and whom they have no quarrel and bilities of a relatively small forestry there are Finns who whom they feel to be at a safe could be sold to them if our
market. For more British goods cannot be ignored,
In an age when architecture distance. Here is one stumbling manufacturers would show a has shown little advance on the block (despite a firm belief in greater disposition to consider past, suve in the use of plastic Finland that Britain will not the special needs of the country, concrete and glass, Finland has permit any sacrifice of Finnish Finland, in fact, suffers (in its found two new ways of expres- independence merely to obtain own view) from being too little sing beauty in building-thint of a Soviet alliance) on which the known abroad, especially in Saarinen, to whom many of the Britain. Far too many people, most striking buildings in Hel- negotiators of Moscow have
my Finnish friends tell me, are sinki are due, and of Alvar faller continually in
recent still uncertain whether Finland Aalto, whose library at Viipuri weeks.
is a Baltic or a Balkan country, and the house he has just com- Even then it is not generally pleted for Mr. Harry Guilichsen Finland hopes that a way realised that English in taught at Noormarkhu are supreme will be found round this obstacle, as a third language (the others examples of what can be done for while her eastern frontier is being Finnish and Swedish) in with lighting, varied use of kept manuel and ready night every Finnish school and that it wood and asymmetry of design. and day, Britain is her best is probably the cheapest country
In sculpture, particularly in customer for wood pulp, paper in Eurpoe to travel in or live in. anite, the sensitive work of and agricultural produce. Fin- land's trade with Britain, indeed, one factor that makes Finland deserves to be much more wide- If I were asked to name the in his studio outside Helsinki. Vaino Aaltonen, whom I visited
is larger than Australia's.
different from every other
ly known.
But it is not much in its in-
That one source of nervous- country I have visited and is the nes apart, Finland to-day pre- key to much of the physical dividual great men that the sents a picture of calm, confi- fitness, mental alertness and claim of Finland to be regarded dent prosperity all too rure else- spiritual balance which gives
a cultivated and civilised the inhabitants their air of country mainly rests. It is in where. The general election n few weeks ago produced little healthy contentment I should the universally high standard change (apart from the loss say at once the Finnish bath,
of appreciation of fine things,
by the ultra-nationalists, or From the earliest times Finns the importance everywhere at- local "fascists," of half have been accustomed to steam tached to education and the in- their tiny percentage of themselves at Icast once A satiable will of the Finns to seats) and has left the week into a parboiled pinkness learn. The largest bookshop in existing Social Democrat in a smoke-blackened wooden Europe is in Helsinki.
coalition hut, throwing ladles of water on
and agrarian
firmly in the saddle.
to hot stones to raise the tem- perature until every impurity is
boiled out of their systems,
IN every big town I visit- finally jumping into the nearest shown me was a new school, a ed almost the first thing TRADE figures are good. lake for a swim or, in winter, new hospital or a new library:
Now markets
are
for rolling in the snow. paper and pulp
Cinemas, by contrast, seemed This ceremony, which is called lacking, and there is every- being found in South "sauna," produces a feeling of where an America. New enter- fitness and mental and physical rather than on pleasure. Pos- emphasis on work
This is the 250ft, high Marathon Tower built at Helsinki for next year's Olympic Games.
By Denis Weaver
contentment which must be ex- sibly in Finland they are more perienced to be believed. No nearly the same thing than in IN the quiet lanes off the prises, such as the manufacture one knows how the custom most countries,
originated, but it is the oldest There is one respect in which of cheap glass-ware (to replace and most Finnish thing in Fin- Finns are second to none, though main road of European the lost supplies from Czecho- power politics there are Slovakia).
land, except the Finnish langu- they may be equalled. That is are springing up. action of Soviet troops in march-still countries where the Fisheries are being developed age and the universal love of in hospitality, a hospitality of the heart that finds expression rumble of gun-carriages is and modern types of trawlers Little by little the magnifi- in natural courtesy and tolera- heard only faintly and and drifters are being introduced
cent, musical language of the tion, qualities of which some to aid this growing industry.
Finns, which bears no resem- nations nearer the high rond of where men and women can
Even tourist traffic, despite blance to any other except, very world affairs could learn much devote their energies to the normal business of living. Finland's
inacconsi- faintly, the Hungarian, is re- from Finland, apparent
inge into Poland for the express
| purpose of joining in its dis-
mmberment.
Soviet Russin has solemnly signed Pacts of Non-Aggression
liberty.
Such countries deserve atten- with Afghanistan, China. Fin- tion to-day if only because thei |land, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, flame of civilisation may still GRIN AND BEAR IT
The burning in them when it Poland and Italy. So far from has been snuffed out by con easing the passage of an ageres. flict in places more "on the map." | sor, these parts specifically laid
Finland is one
of these, It down that the agreements the storm centres, politically a Geographically far distant from
eould be denounced only in the firm democracy and culturally inį event of one of the contracting the front rank of civilised con
munities, this land of lakes,, parties committing an act of pine forests and steam batha aggression against a third party.may yet prove the last refuge of
common sense in Europe. Instead of denouncing the new
But even Finland has its pact with Germany, as was pro-shadow. It is not Hitler, nor vided, Russia has torn up the even Stalin, that is feared. It pact with her neighbour and,
is Russia.. Touring Finland's chief towns and industrial! less than 12 hours after the centres recently I found scores denouement, has ordered her who had fought some of them
troops to march.
jas boys-in the war of indepen- dence 20 years ago which drove That the latest act in the the Russians out and established
Finland as a acparate State.
European drama has drastically
altered the complexion of inter-
again and again declared our
national affairs, and altered it firm adherence devolves upon the
for the worse, cannot be denied.
peoples of Great Britain and Entirely new and grave
France, especially since other have to be faced. More and Hemocracies are either too weak more, the defence of those prin- or too unwilling to take their ciples of international law and part in the protection of civilisa- justice to which our leaders have tion.
#dale, Inc.
By Lichty
I want to a psychiatrist to-day, Cadwell! Ho said In
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New Ray To Guide Traffic In Raids
THE "black ray", has arrived
to help to solve one of A.R.P.'s big problems-move- ment of essential trafic during lair raids.
The inventors, the Lum' X Com- pany, of London, rinim that bm- bulances. fire
und engines, food munition convoys would be able to go safely about their vital duties without normal lights with the ald of their ultraviolet ray tamp, play- ing upon fluorescent marks in the roadway.
Big lorries drove eerlly round und round a South Croydon "autodrome" in almost complete darkness in the first demonstration of the "black:
ray,"
Representatives from the Home Ofice, War Office, Admirally, Afr Ministry, and Scotland Yard watched the tests.
The lamp throws no reflection, and It is claimed that it would be practically Invisible from the air.
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