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War and Culture
In
view of the shortage of soap in
cause a renewed wave of moustache-growing, Ilitler
Germany, which is likely to will doubtless inaugurate this new fashion- THE SWA STICK LE
Stalin
To
Like
Would
Forget
TANNENBERG
T was at Tannenberg, in the last week of August,
ONE of the worst features of
modern war and modern in-1914, that the efficiency of the Great Russian Steam ternational rivalry is that na-
tions are made to suffer in mind
as well as in body.
For totalitarian war imitates the totalitarian State and des- troys or tries to destroy every- thing that can keep memory and imagination alive.
A few months ago the Ger- mans wreaked their anger on the most ancient of the Czech universities: a university that had been respected even in the most bitter phases of the quarrel between Czech and Ger- man as the home of Czech cul-
Lure.
They have now dismantled the interior of Belvedere Palace
at Wursaw, the museum in which Pilsudski's memory was cherished, turning the chapel in- to a music-room.
The Lithunnian Government, following this bad example, has closed the Polish University at Vilna, a university established in the sixteenth century.
The racial rivalries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans have been seen at their worst in the persecutions of language, re- |ligion, and university, and now
the most powerful State in Cen- tral Europe ja making savage intolbrance in this form the Basis of its policy.
Yet this Power thinks that it is fitted for the hegemony of
Europe.
"The contrast between the be- haviour of Nazi Germany to Czech universities and that of the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia to German universities shows how sadly the standard of civilised government must de- cline wherever Germany spreads her rule.
Roller was first exploded by
the Germans with a disas- trous bang which has not yet ceased to echo.
The real truth-happily for the Allies-reached the world. slowly in 1914. It still makes gruesome reading. Tannenberg was, in short, less of a victory for Germany than it was an overwhelming defeat for the Russian fighting machine.
The Russian debacle in Finland was described by Webb Miller, "United Press" War Correspondent, yesterday as the greatest Russian debacle since Tannenberg. Tannenberg was not 80 much
a victory for German as an overwhelming defeat for the Russian fighting machine.
Indeed, the story of those few-automatically-righted the things August days of 25 years ago that Prittwitz had left undone.
But the Russian debacle had illustrates perfectly the curious feckless strain in the Russian already started. nature.
Brilliant Ludendorff
THE years before the war the plans for an attack of East Prussia had been Russian laid. Two carefully armica were.to march against the Germans north and south of a line of marshy lakes. The princi- pal army
led by Samsonov.
was
one
It was typical of the Russiaris you see the same thing happen- ing in Finland to-day that Sam- sonov knew nothing of the army he had to command, knew nothlag of the staff given him, and had been hauled back from the Caucasus to supervise an attack which should have been carefully rehearsed by the man in charge.
The other Russian commander was Rennenkampf, and his grmy was at first so successful that the German General Prittwitz funk- ed an engagement and was promptly superseded. This was on August 21.
Whereupon the German High Command at Coblenz, on the other side of Europe, were rather up a tree. They detached a brilliant tactician called Luden- dorff, packed him into a special northbound train, and then took- ed around for some senior officer to command the East Prussian troops, we ma
Someone suggested the name. of Hindenburg, -n : 68-years-old general pottering around Han- over in civilian clothes; for he had retiréð In 1911.
Ludendorff's train stopped at Hanover long enough to take Hindenburg on board, and off they went.
The Russian Dobarla
THEY were luckier than poor Samsonov. By the time they roached East Prussia the German staff had
-
arins
Samsonov's big and cumber- some army had been marching about the Polish plains for a fortnight. It was a hot and
sticky August. Railways.in Po- land were few and far between Russians have never yet manag- perhaps now that they have
as they are to this day. The
ed to run a railway properly, and
taken to the air-never will.
Ammunition and food began to run out, and Samsonov's re-
connaissance work was deplor-
able.
Twenty-five years ago this.
of the whereabouts of Rennen- kampf's other Russian army that he firmly believed that the pincer-like movement was in progress. Actually, he was hour- drawing farther away from Rennenkampf! The pincer was opening, not closing.
morning Samsonov knew so little
PLEASE Turn To Pago 9.
Now a word
about the French..
Tis one of the frontes of this very odd war that we know more of the character of our present enemies than of our present alles.
Bo I thought that a few words about the French might come in handy, especially as quite a num- ber of you may have to share a trench with them sometimes.
** The French, being a democratio nation with the not-easy-to-live-
motto, Fraternity
Liberty, Equality, (you'll And that in- scribed on the money when
You to "Ket France), are not so con- to be divided into classes veolently na, for instance, the Germans..
To the average Englishman, indeed. there is only one class of Frenchman at all. He wears a tall slik hat, a littla pointed beard, punctuates his wild ges Dculations with witty little remarks like "Zut alorst" and "Hein?", and apends the greater part of his life. glorifying La Femme (English: The
• Wentan),
The day he passes, seated in a 'curé, reading "riskay" magazines; the night he devotes to unspeakable revelry, which is saved being thought "wicked" by the Prenchman's characteristic charm, wit and "naughtiness.".
BY SPIKE HUGHES
prove of those who don't, they are too good mannered to say so.
From this class come the French Civil servants and shopkeepers.
The shopkeepers you will fad par Ucularly friendly and willing to pass the time of day, but do remember to say Bon Jour" when you enter the when you shop, and Au revoir
also a social pleasure. leave. It suggests that your shopping Little courtesies like this on your part will work wonders, and if the shopkeeper hasn't got what you want The will be only too pleased to tell you where you can get it. He may even send somebody to get it for you if he Bees that you're a stranger in those parta
;
HE Civil servaNE, 'Or small-time official class
TH
of Frenchman, appears somewhat inhumanly bureaucratic at first; but a smile, a to tact and patience will reveal that he is an indi- vidual with a sense of humour and a genuine desire to be helpful.
Since French mobilisation, of course, it will not be so easy to distinguish one. class from another, but I doubt if even a uniform will completely disguise, the
Et fact, however, this typical French man has only ever existed in English comic papers, so that the real French- man may prove sotmething of a disap-Young Blood. -pointment when you meet him.
**** This class of young man has a streaÍC of the gigolo in him. In peace time ke delves around in a gaily coloured car, dresses with rather exaggerated chia, amokes American elgarettes and takes a passionato interest in ie sport and le jai hot.
HARM and wit the Franch most certainly have, and for all their superficial excitability, they are par haps the most tolerable of all races...
Ho is A Elt of & Ons for les piris, y if you men patiant with them thay
and will tell you with pride and some will do almost anything for you; and detail of his alleged conquisis. You, as. more than that if you show any, fonda guest, in his country, will of course ness for their children, tj.
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fessional French soldier, ila is a cul- tured, unaggressive person who goes. about his job with a remarkable lack of fuss and bother. He has no particular political views, hates war, loves his country passionately, and thoroughly good company.
If anything goes wrong he is more Like the likely to laugh than nci French pilot who hit the top of a hedgo taking-off in his plane and crashed. He got out of a severely buckled machine, scratched his beɛd and re--- marked: "Well, isn't that funny? Exactly the same thing happened yes terday!"
A class apart in Prance are the ztechanics. They wear bereta and white boller suits, and in spite of deal of excited discussion and argu- ment will tear an engins to pieces and put it back better than when it loft The factory. They are probably the best. mechanics in the world, VAATE
French children are not much dif- forent from other children, except that While you are struggling with your Hugo's, they seem to have no dificulty in speaking French at all," "stran
They are apt to beg and run' alter- you in the streets until they get some thing out of you; but if you"And: them really tiresome tha": ainisors. officer will, on application, ...'' supply' you with one of two maglo phrases. to disperse them. But don't be too- bar; they may be the allies of to- morrow.
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ASTLY, there 'is - "the" homme de id rua. He's very much like the rest
of us men-in-the-street in any civilised. country. He reserves the right to think and say what he likes. He enjoya poli- tical argument, makes indelicata joken at the expanse of the Government, the censorship, the bachelor's tax, and the bonus for large families
When a eriala arissa. However, ha be- llion with interest and appear incomes deadly and grimly calm. septem- ber « year ago ho behaved so quietly The backbone of the Princh nation" pressed. By doing so you will help the
and determinedly that I. wondered. te the bourgsolate. Thrifty and well. Frenckuman to maintain what ha
watching him, why song froid was sup- Ind, those are easily recognised by the thinks is his reputation among the fact that on the hottest summer Bun- English program
Aposed to be exclusively an agila
virtue. A
One thing only will bring the blood.
day nothing will induce them to apple will probably put water in vintage pear in publio except in their best claret, initas:12% the wine of his clothes. They take life a Jiltlo mark country don't appear too shocked. rushing to his cheeks: the mention at ourly, and, though. they may diaap-. Then you will come across the pro- ** Itlaire."