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THE RUSSIAN QUESTION MARK
Centre
Storm
in the West
UST over four years ago
under the provisions of the Triecommuni- workers shook hands with their cations Ordinance, 1916, Buch news as
bears the indication UP is received in friends from France who were Hongkong on the date of publication by going back home over the Lor- the United Press Associations, who re
serve all rights and forbid repubilcation, raine border because, as a re- either wholly or in part without previoussult of the Plebiscite, the Saor
| arrangement.
Imponderables
was returning to the German Reich.
They smiled at each other, clapped In times of crisis the materially-we will meet again
each other on the shoulder and said: at holiday minded thinker usually assumes the times. It is not good-bye." role of a realist and, in attempting to
To-day these same men are divided
by the guns and shells that spatter death along the Siegfried Line.
The French Army is digging lis heels Into the Saar, that rich industrial area which, fòur years after voting its return to tho Relch, finds itself Lite centre of the Western Front activity, Ifere
MARY FERGUSION who mixed freely with the Saarlanders during tho 1035- piebiscite, tells you about these people who, until 1035, were workmates of the Frenchmen they are now fighting.
"We will not victimise the mass of the people in your ranks," he added, "apart, of course, from taking their jobs from them and giving them to our own people.
"But we shall certainly not tolerate the trade unions or their societies.
"I would advise you and your fellow leaders to get away as quickly As you can."
All the loose money in the Neun- kirchen trade union offices was £rs- mediately confiscated by local Hit- ferites and handed over to the Nazi Wellure Fund.
Dr. Eugene Feled, editor of a Sanr-
an American, another English Journa- louis Labour paper, left after the But they never wanted it to hop- list and I collected some money be plebiselte, taking 200 colleagues with which he pen The Saarlanders and the tween us and gave it to the women him. French understood each other per- to buy milk for their children." arguments. fectly.
changes, the disposition of
forces, racial solidarity, and geographical ad- vantages are the weights in his scales, In following this method, however, he can no more prophesy the actual
course of events than is speculator with his books of statistics and charts can surely predict the course of the
outside.
*
I went
As the frightened mine and steel workers and their familles filed across
be prophetic, endeavours to balance ascertainable facts. Ile predicts
success for that alde on
Ands the weightiest
* * Armaments, success in diplomaile ex- When the plebiscite was being
taken on that freezing January day AFTER writing that report DURING the night of the plebiscite the home of the in 1035 I sat in a cafe in Saarbrucken
to Saargemund. French Consul in Saarbrucken with a German and a Frenchman, "Every train from Saarbrucken was besieged with people who watching the snow swirling down is filled with emigres-people wanted to get away to safety who are fleeing from their over the Lorraino border and homes because they have spoken into Forbach. NAZI Brownshirts swaggered in free criticism of what the
on the snowy pavements, Nazis are doing," I wrote. hustling timid men and women-Among other facts about the the borders, grim-faced-Nazla-took towards the Nazi headquarters brutality of the Nazis to Socialist their photographs to add to the Nazi to listen to wireless talk about Saarlanders that 1 learnt were book of horrors.
these:- The result is that calculations quick-the greatness of Adolf Hitler.
At Sportouls acid was thrown on Thousands fled from their homes, ly become, subordinated to wishful The German, e steelworker who the face of a man because be was leaving behind them all they owned. Hundreds of thousands stayed at was a Saarlander by birth, thumped an ardent trade unionist. Socialist thinking. Men form their opinions the table with his clenched fist and leaders in the Sane were told, two their jobs and kept their mouths. according to their habitual point of said to us: "We will teach these up days after the plebiscite was taken, shut. The scorn and hatred they view. For this reason it is well not starts a lesson soon. They have no that there was no hope of clemency felt for the Nazis was hidden in their
manners. Who made them think for them.
hearts, walling for expression on the to accept as conclusive arguments that every German wanted to be a M. Etienne, one of the Socialist day that the world turned on the based on these supposed determining | Nazi?”'
leaders in Neunkirchen, approached Nazl brute to drive it out of exist- the representative of Herr Buerckel, ence. factors, but to fura onc's thought The Frenchman sipped his wine Hitler's Commissioner for the Saar, Adolf Hitler must be a very wor- more to those imponderables which and shrugged his shoulders. "You and tried to get from him a declara- ried Leader, because the people of In the long run have more influence will learn that all Germans must be ton that Socialists in Neunkirchen the Saar are, in the main, not his
Nazis,” he said, as though speaking would not be terrorised.
people. They are democrats who than "realism" will adrit!1.
to a child.
Herr Buercitci's representative sald love freedom. that this was impossible; that they Hitler hus enemies on both sides of The Saarlander grumbled that we would follow the example of Ger- the Saar borders who are just walt-
mistake, for the were making
ing for the Siegfried Line to break. people of the Saar were Socialsts inany. and did not approve of the Nazi methods or creed,
market.
:
Foremost among these comes £12 actual state of mind of the peoples concerned. The vast majority ага wholly opposed. to use of force as a means of settling International dis- putes. There can be no room for doubt on this score.
What of the rulers themselves? Do
they belleve that by forcing a situa- tion fraught with so much evil they can establish a new set of laws of their own and thrust aside the statutes upon which the order of universe is poised, statutes of which it has been written that "they stand fast for ever and over and are done in truth and uprightness"?
* * THE world knows how the
Saarlanders went to the poll next day, and put crosses on their voting papers giving the Snar to Hitler.
Since then they have learnt what it means to be Germana under Nazi rule.
Now the guns are booming in Saarland, where normally a million decent, hard-working miners, steel and iron workers, gläss and brewery workers live-folk who have no quarrel with the French or any other people.
To denial from the use of force as a means of getting one's own way,
Those people remember what hap-. which preponderating strength has pence four and a halt years ago, seemed to assure, may be a hard thing when they suld "Yes" to the Naz! for human pride to swallow, but it Woder.
may be still harder to disregard the Miners who said openly they did very influential and cogent appeals not like the Nazis were told to go for peace made in the last few days.
and vote or clse..."
Workers in heavy industrică who The greatest of all the imponder-nuptured reluctant were told they ables, however, is the question of would be expected to "vote right," and that a Nazi agent would call to morale, wherever conscience makes take them to the polling station. elther cowards or heroes of us all.
On Thursday, January 17, 1935, However inviting to the bully may be I wrot in a dispatch to the Daily the prospect afforded by a timid and
Herald": Ineffectual opposition, the altuation is completely altered when firmness and courage show clearly, that supposedly "I went to-day to the mining town supertoe force is not to be allowed of Dudweiler, where I was taken by to have things all, its own way.
ah" official of the mines to see 48 familica who have left their homes Such Imponderables ato crystals-and have been given: temporary. ing and detaching themselves fr shelter in a big workmen's hut.
"86 piuiful was the sight of the the chaotic vapours that taint the afr. children crying for food, that a Swiss,
from
"Outbreaks of Nazi terrorism, were reported from many parts of the Saur territory to-day.
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Freud's Son Heads Legion
Of Freedom
By Lichty Bayswater, in a room furnished only
"The Old rond, was only wide enough for two cars, but thisTM new 'highway can accommodate four smash-ups and
room to spare.
IN a house in Westbourne Terrace,
with a large-scale map of dead Austria, meet o
group of people pledged to resurrect their country from the annihilation she has suffer edt at the hands of Hitler.
Headed by the eldest son of Pro- fessor Sigmund Freud, the great psychologist who died recently, they are entolling picked men to form an Austrian Legion.
"There are some thousands of us Austrians in Britain, all refugees," said Mr. Freud, "I served for four years in the Great War, first as n volunteer, later as a commissioned officer, and many of us have fought against Brilons in the past. Thila Wine we want to fight with them.
"We are not willing to see you go and fight against our destroyer and stay here, eating your food protected by your arms and snatch what we can get in the way of jobs, curcera or money.
"We wish to fight not only for the Ireedom of Austria but the freedom of the world. Only when" Germany -Nazi Germany... is broken can we Austrians build n now Austria.”
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