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E name of Poland once annually 10,000,000 tons of mer again disappears tem- chandlse.
Now consider the man who is the norarily from the maps of Europe, but it will not vanish backbone of Poland-the peasant,"
Going cast from Germany in War- from the hearts of the Poles,
nor should it from ours as we saw the Nord Express used to rush do battle in the west for its through endless rites of plain, every inclt of which was cultivated. From liberation.
the train windows you saw the
Let we forget the enormity of the wheat fields stretching out from the railway track to the horizon, golden German offence committed against and breast high under the suminer
Poland, consider what the Poles did sun. for their country in the course of its Stubbs Rd. 20 years' resurrection.
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For not only have its men, women, and children died under the bail of German steel, but years of hard work have been wiped out, years in which a race transformed itself inta
a nation,
A beautiful scene this, but on elser examination what struck the ubserver most was the poverty of the peasant. He was very poor,
700,000 Small Holdings
DACK in Warsaw I tried to
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hed out whether this could GILBERT FRANKAU has thoughts on
The first time I went to Ibland not be remedied, and there, at the imagined that Warsaw would be a Ministry, I discovered that nis in drab, backward Slav city, dirty, tumbledown, lacking in elegante.
to over-
MONEY
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, was any attempt being made to solve the pea- sant problem in Central Europe. Instead, I saw Warsaw as a 'clean
"First of all, please understand city of fine bulldings, with a fragni- that Poland is land hungry," said the| The War Goes On
Brent opera house, skyscrapers, up- expert, "and that's due
NEVER having been out of Channel. It is a pity, therefore, that to-date, newspaper officer, and the population in the rural areas."
the average Briton should be taught debt between the years go tle about money when he or THE German armic best-classed men and women I had
Now this is what happened. As vinlisted Belgium in 1914 their ret since leaving Landon and travel early as 1919 the Sejm (Parliament) 1906 and 1939, I claim to know she is young. Loaders enuntul a short war. ng aerese Northern Europe.
of the Palish Republic passed a re- rolution dixing the principles of land as much about money troubles us The enfortunate German people! have been fold by their controlled terrace of the Hotel Europesky, "we up the big estates and purțel them.
"You are." said a friend, on the term. Chief of these was to break any treasury in the British Em- the money is the root of all evil"
WHEN
reas the, with the conquest of Polat Britain and France will be!
are not Balkanised of barkward as out fate small lots. romany of you western Europeans
4
pire.
Yet my very rich friends-1 am So during the last 20 years 700,000 rager to accent peace terms, and seem to think, though, I admit, 20 farm holdings have been created or always delighted to observe spend the remarkable "armistice" celt-years ago it was not like this," enabled to achieve independent status, far more the worrying about their
These have been giving work and a financial futures than I do minc. brations hroughout Germany on
Jivelihood, to 4,500,000 peasants. Tuesday are indicative of this desire
My father was like that. Though Then year by your the Poles in his worry was never personal. The creased the area of arable land by thought that he might not leave my turning harren land to account, and
of the Germans to believe that their
lenders are right. -
Homesteads And Farms Burned The Nazi bosst has been given a
FROM him I heard what Po they have, in fact, increased the orea mother and his four children pro- withering answer in M. Daladier's
land looked like just after " arable land by more than 3,000,-perly provided for used to drive him broadcast yesterday and, doubtless, the 1914 war.
000 acres to give the peasant a better nearly frantic. The factories were deal.
1 still think of him as the least Mr. Neville Chamberlain will be closed because of a shortage of raw equally emphatie in his rojectlen of j
'The fleas of the peasants Lest we forget, these independent selfish man who ever lived. He materials. the so-called Nazi peace terms when were waste lands, their stock had shull femers now become Hitler's grudged himself everything-al times until they are once more even a hansom cab home after a late night at the office. Us he grudged he addresses the House of Com- been slaughtered, their homesteads fiberated.
nothing. mone this evening.
and farms burned.
Then, for obvious reasons and to
With what result? He died, as 1 "The Germuns and the Russians absorbs toe surplus rural population, fought back and forth here like giant-the-Poles concentrated on industry told you last week, at an tarly age, leaving quite a large capitol which ploughs, my friend added. "turning
What, they have done in industrial my mother and I between us blewed upside down everything in their production can best be seen by the inside 10 years.
index figure. In 1922 it stood at) pattı."**
75.5, but last year it had risen to
Whatever successes Hitler's per- fidy and desperate haste have won in Poland, all the world now knows that the conquest of that unhappy victim of Nazi aggression is only the beginning of the struggle to which Nazim has challenged elvilisation and into which Britain is throwing all her strength.
The Fuehrer in his frenzy may be blind to the lessons of the long effort from 1914 to 1918, but they have been wall and truly learned in England.
serfs
Vast districts were on the edge of 119.5.
Blowed, muybe, is not exactly the right word. Most of the money went into a business-and never came out
As a nation we still suffer from
complex. Most of us, from the rich- est to the poorest, prefer that our children should learn the hard lesson of £ 8. d., as I myself had to learn it, by bitter personal experience,
We would far rather see the little darlings studying French for their school certificates than the price of bread, meat, fish, and vegetables. While as for teaching them the dif- ference between Preference and Or-
how
dinary shures, or even between a much more satisfactory that they should have started algebra. freehold and a leasehold
Financial Ignorance
LGEBRA forsooth.
When
AG boys done know ho much their own boots cost, and the girls, at any rate of our so-called upper and middle classes, can't even be trusted to buy a cauliflower,
Ob, the financial Ignorance the sheer, crass, hopeless, terrifying and completely avoidable Anancial 1g- norance of the average middle-class bride and bridegroom.
The enduring miroclo is that their domestle budgets ever balance. Yet
tamine, communications were com Though the Germans destroyed or of it: Nevertheless, the money went. pletely disorganised. The currency stole 00,000 electrical machines and was chaotic, with German, Russian, ataut 7.000.000 yards of cubic, Po- The Way to Treat Itmost of them eventually do and Austrian coinage in circulation, lend's electro-technical industry in-
Lest we fargel, then, this is the background of the new Poland which Germany. has again' led waste.
creased its production fourfold.
The chemical industry tells the
Mknowing the worst.
Y mother died without After-
2133 herited
of
Out same story: the output of seda rose wards I used to dream-having In-
exaggerated sense by 145 per cent.; calcium products personal responsibility-that I could of this moress the Poles built a were doubled; artificial silk produc- restore their share of the family country, not faultless, but having tion increased Avefold. within it plenty to admire,
Now look briefly at their achieve
then ments.
Klichener's doctrine that to wage a major war the nation must pro- pare for years of fighting Was startling In 1914. We wasted many lives, much time and much treasure before our leaders organised Britain's man power for military service and her Industrien for the supply of munitions; Now, the machinery to marshal the Em- pire's utmost strength in arms, made ready before the outbreak of war, is at work.
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Ballic.
Fishing Village Into Big Port
IRST, Gdynin, built to give them their own port on the
was
fortune to my surviving brother and Her locomotive hullders made Po- sister. and self-sufficient in rolling stock:
But I never have. And that they her papermakers Increased their out would have been any the happier for but four times: the cellulose mills
It I refuse to admit. accounted for a sixfold increase in production.
She Wanted Ten
More Years
-
Both, like myself, lead busy lives. well My brother Itonald's success known. My sister's, though less spectacular, seems to me even more satisfactory. She has devoted her seif, in the intervals of bringing up
EST we forget what the Poitsha large family, to pure scholarship.
now lost, note worker has
Accordingly, there is no need for of the first my father to turn in bin grave, was one
clight- Introduce the
to
Eventually most of us learn the value of money, But half the knocks we take on the way to knowledge could be avoided if either our purents or our school teachers would be less.. snobbish and more practical.
The making of money, the spend- Ing of money, or the investing of money, however much we may resent the fact, plays a considerable part almost every human being's existence.
in
Children brought up in complete ignorance--as so many upper and middle-class children ere-of money natters represent a constant danger to the community. They are apt to become (as in my own case) spend- thrifts; or what is even worst, misers. Such children are equally the prey, of the bucket-shop in later years,
und fraudulent political keeper economist like Karl Marx.
Sixteen years ago Gdynia
#that Poland village of a couple of hundred fisher countries The certainty that, however for men, who lived with their families hours day (seven in the mines and Nor, as I like to imagine, were his the task may take, i will be
in thatched houses along the sandy six for workers in temperatures over efforts und my mother's entirely complished, will hardly be kept by
82 degrees). In Germany, and pre-wasted, if-as the poet tells us to You Must Be Master sumably under the Germans, 10 live in hearts we leave behind is not the worst brutality of the Gestapo
to die. from the knowledge of the German Now those same fishermen are (or hours is the working day.
villas in rather were) living in people.
The Pales, however, do not belleve Whatever Hitler's moramaniac nearby Zoppot, Bie Monte Carlo of that man lives by work alone.
shore.
FOR the real secret about money is that if you don't That the Inst sentence is perilously master Itand the sooner you are near "sob-stuff," I admit. Let us
dinit, further, that great financiers tought to do this the better-it wil faith in his star, his people are the Baltic. For on the sites of their After, the 1914-18 war, the Poles treat money as it should be treated end by mastering you, ・・
Hence, more often than not, your Pearly uncomfortable, as the joyous thatched houses stand blocks of ants, began with a shocking percentage of objectively, unsentimentally, and un- celebrations throughout the coun- rows of shops. The land on which literales, due to the deliberate cinqtionally. But how many of us unhappy over-rich man who is afraid of losing his possessions. Hence, and try at the hoax armistice reports they dried their Ashing nets is worth polley of the partitioning Powers, can afford to do that?
hence only, your debtor who is al- ways so certain that he'll be able to bear witnesA.
"let you have it back by Monday
It must be depressing to the 'German mian-in-the-street, how over dulled by propaganda, when he learnis that, though Poland be
who wanted to keep their victims nol £ a square yard.
only in rerfdem but also in spiritual Foolish Slogan Lest we forget Hitler's real smash darkness.
po nearly all of a page and never does.
received as and grab aim, please note that yatı
But in the Inst few years the Poles
Both such ure money-slaves, could see as many as 40 or 30 ships have built 10,000 elementary schools, ment, for work we do or as interest In the 700 acres of Gdynia's harbour so no wonder the percentage of chil- un accumulated savings, is a personal though neither of them, in my basina, protected by breakwaters dren in school soared from 60 in 1921)
measures of our materlul Ilves, So
Such pity, as I have for money- erushed, he will, for an Indefinite two miles und a half long, equipped to the latest Agure of 93. It would malter. Our private budgels are the opinion, is worth much pity,
slaves Is reserve for the vast period be short of meat, short of automatic radio beacons and soon have been 100 per cent, but much comes in yearly from our work
Hitler stepped in.
or our savings. Su much goes out majority who won't find it too easy to pay that extra twopence on tea or Lower our income or put up our that extra penny on petrol,
clothes, without any soap, and that is the test which the regime can promise him.
for our expenses.
submarine oscillators.
Then, with her limited resources, From here went regular passenger Poland created social services that It is clear that the Allied chal-services to North and South America, may now disappenr-community cen- expenditure. Either way, we squeal.
In and out moved 10,000 passengers ties,, summer camps for children, And the prople who squeal loudest lengo IR disturbing. Ilitler'a
supplementary feeding in the schools. in my experience are the very peo- "penco" terms · shows
that the out
year. To make this artifelal port For the moment the prospect is dark, ple who are always ready to prench;
"Money doesn't mean hoppiness." the scrub and, aand cost the Fuehrer has been thinking over it. Poles £12,000,000, but it will always
"We needed another 10 years of
That slogan is not even "gob-stuff." of creation ence to complete the
Lack of money for reasonable needs, these Including enjoyment, 'wili sour any body except a saint.
Saints, however, are rarlues; and the average Brilon, though he dis- 1's niways worth white paying out Ukes being fold so, is just as fond of money-down la your very last aix- moncy as his neighbours across the penes for that!
The "armistico", celebrations show stand as symbolic of Poland's econo- the new Poland," said an attache at it in sheer balderdasb.
that the German people have also mie dynamics, though the name of the Polish Embassy to me.
been thinking over it. They, the | people, will think, dangerously.
Someone in Germany is going to remember that "the last..., butülü Dritain always wins.!!
Polnud may vanish from the map and the name of Gdynia be changed into some German form.
In a few years, then, this new part built up a trade in which it handled
Lest we forget, Poland's 20 years show that she deserved that peace.
Emrys Jones
All the same, they'll do it, and without too much grumbling. Nor better off strudgo that should tho extra income tax.
.Becntise even those-nnel, believe it or not, they are still leglon-who have never been taught the difference between a Preference share and an Ordinary know one meaning of De. word "Security."