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RUSSIA OPENS FRONT AND BACK_DOORS TO THE WEST
The Mother of the Slavs sprawls over a continent, now balancing, now upsetting Europo's delicate balance of power. Her present advance in Europa has been at the invitation of Hitler; but her fundamental interests in the Baltic and the Balkans would scam to clash with those of Germany. How long then can this unnatural alliance continue?
TAS Russia begun a Ivan The Terrible (1533-84)
Is westward push?
answer.
into being. Russia has begun. The bulldozer through the woods and Russia goes to the West; the West
ธ sea.
Russia had, no shore, no door to Peter the Great at last directs it to. the outside world; no port, no way the sea. He takes the Baltic states. Of course, tried to drive the So Russia has a door, a front door. The Duchy of Moscow has come out. it going to play a
The "terrible comes into Russia. The Sea surges Slavs have a mother. Mother Russlu swamps to
own portal. A Ivan" was one of the mightiest of through Russia's lu on the way to Europe
drivers. He went every direction, splendid city rises upon it, welcoming. role in Europe again?
You yourself must give the
Russia moves slowly. She does greatly expanding his empire. He Europe to. Muscovy, directing Mus- It is written where all
not travel in a buggy. She has no sat as a colossus on his monstrous covy to Europe. may read. It is scrawled in roads, and must make her way as she caterpillar but he couldn't get to a
The city is St. Petersburg. - Over door.
onion-domed, gold-decked churches. gigantic letters across the most goes. So she rides on a "bulldozer,
machines, a scraper Peter The Great (1682-1725) tells exultantly ery, "Russia has a
doort" titanic land empire that has the most formidable of all American ever persisted among the nations pushed by a crawling tractor that
However, the bulldozer didn't stop. of men. The sentences are ir-lears out trees, boulders, buildings, regular and distorted, as if made as it moves. Russia hed a bulldozer It constantly gained in power. The
glacier. Who can slop by chlidren, or in the dark. But 300 years ago. And han constantly Russian nation is the mightest bio a glacier? any discerning man can maken driving it to the West, clumsy, logical force on earth. It moves as a them out.
The Nazis can make.no such claims for the U-boat position. At ledat five U-boats have been sunk since the First Lord of the Admiralty made his last reporting, disappearing. A limitless, inarti- to the House of Conimons, a rate of destruction that we never Out achieved in the last war. of 60 U-boats which were ready for. action at the beginning of September almost half must now be lost. Such a rate of destruc- tion of submarines and of trained crews cannot be endured for long by Germany.
They take us back towards the end of the last millennium. They reveal our mercantile marine is praca boundless expanse of level.steppes, dreary awamps, trackless forests, All is as formless ag a shoreless nga. tically unaffected.
as bewil- Currents surge through it dered gulf streams; unending waves leap and fall-in futile rhythm. They are the tribes of the earth, wandering without compass and without chroni cle: wandering whithersoever hunger leads or fear drives, ravaging, devour-
culate human octan-that was Russla. Then somehow, from somewhere, there appeared a definite type, the Slavs. They spattered no a drop of milk fallen on a stone. In lime there were Slave in the Baltics, Slavs in the Balkans, Slavs in the Carpathians, the Slavs in the Alps, Stavn in Peloponnesus.
Unlike past weeks, Britain has not suffered any new losses on the Royal Navy side. The Rawalpindian armed auxillary crufsar-was destroyed after a gallant action last week.
The balance is on our side in overy. direction-on the seas, in the air, on land and on the economia front:
Christianity (989) Looking farther upon that formless Slavic sea you see a light piercing the gloom. Religion comes to the Russian Slava (000).) From China? No. From Indin? No, From the West, through Constantinople. It is Chri- new link with stianity. That's a Europe. To the instinctive tie of hunger is added the invisible bond of faith. The Slavs move West
Duchy of Moscow (1300)
Imagine them, now as clouds cover- ing the skies. They are always in motion. No constant form; no per- sisting colour. The clouds meet, coalesce, separate, marge agala endlessly. Nol There's a dense masa there in the middle that seems to stay together: It looks like.n whale; like an elephant; like a camell Like all of them, and none of them, · But
excavating
huge, slow, mighty.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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For
It remains, it does not vanish...it "Can you play some old fashioned dancer-like the Black Bottom?”.
'will never vanish,**
The Empresses (1730-96)
But the bulldozer has not stopped. Russia's huge house requires another door, a southern portal-into the Mediterranean. So Russla pushes on. Women are now masters;· empresses. rule the Russians. But it matters not who holds the wheel. The needs and strivings of the milliona guide and impel the tank.
Turkey blocks the way Turkey hind, a grand empire when Russia was little more than a Muscovite duchy. It dominated North Afrien, much of Asia, and a good deal of Europe while Russia was still wading in its swamps. But Russia needs n door; it won't be stopped. War follows war. Barrier after barrier is raised, rond after road Is blocked. Half of Europe comes to Turkey's aid-all no avail. The tank goes on and on. It tears out forests, ammushes clladels, crushes an:
Russia empire; crashes to the sea. has a southern door, another road· to the West. Russia now has two aras with which to embrace Europe. It is the end of the 18th century,
The Alexanders (1825-81)
But time did not stop with the 10th century. Nor does the Russian tank. The empire extends over 'nearly one.... sixth of the earth's land surface but that is not enough. The machine moves on. It rolls over little Finland (1809). passes aver almost the whole of Poland (1815) rolld over the Balkans clear to the cuinest of Con- stantinople (1979), freoing Bulgeria and Numanlò, retaining the province of Bessarablo.
That endured until 1917.
Josef Stalin
But time did not end in 1917. The courro of Russian history is not de- flected. Russian power is not ex- hausted; the Russian bulldozer not. PLEASE Turn To' Pago 2.