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In the philosophy of Hitler it was never dreamed that threats would produce a hardening of determination to defy the bully. To this inconvenient pheno- menon his policy has now to ac- commodate itself. From the Dutch Government has come an outspoken declaration that Hol- land's integrity could not be mutter for negotiation and any attack on her territory would meet with the most stubborn opposition of her armed forces. The Scandinavian Powers are no more inclined to accept the Nazi principle that "the Nordic coun- tries belong to the Lebensraum of the Soviet and Germany.” Sharp answers are given by the Norwegian Press, the Danes re- tort that they detest the ad- vance of Bolshevism westward as much as Hitler and Germany did until last August and in Sweden feeling runs high. Everyone is agreed that Sweden
AGEY
WHAT IS
HITLER
UP TO
HEADACHES
STALIN-the
modern Genghis Khan?
M
R. HOOVER the other day said "the Com-" munist attack peaceful. Finiand
the typifies
barbarism Genghis Khan."
on
of
There is perhaps more in the comparison than Mr. Hoover realised, for he was just being rhetorical.
Nor, I think, would Stalin take it for an insult, for Genghis Is by way of becoming a Stalinist
hero.
Who was he, this Genghis or Chingis, whose name-or rather title-has been for seven cen- turies a synonym for savagery and
con- terrible whirlwind
quest?
His real name was Temujin. He was son of a little chieftain of-a the Tartar or Mongol tribe on steppes near Lake Baikal, born in 1162 when Henry II was king here.
Skilful, cunning, a man of steel, he gained domination over friends and rivals alike.
He united the Mongols under his own leadership, disciplined them. organised them, built, an army of neree horsemen,
Then he struck. Out of Central Asla there burst on the civilised world a tremendous revolutionary force.
China was first victim. Temujin (now bearing the title. Chingis Khan, or Great Leader) struck in 1211.
Four years later-in the year of Magna Charta-his troops were in Peking. He was master of North- ern China.
He turned westward against the Islamic States: burst into Turkes- tan: took Bokhara and Samar- kand. In a dozen years he had made
an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Black Bea. Then he died, aged 65.
But the work went on."
The Tartars under his sons and grandsons swept over Russia, swept, into Persia and Irak and Palestine, hammered at the outworks of Western Christendom, spread dis-
BY W. N. EWER
CENGHIS KHAN
STALIN
"Remember that I, too, am an Aslatte," Stalin is reported once-to have said.
may and alarm through Europe. Later Mongol princes. founded an Empire in India. Men still alive can remember the passing of the last"Great Moghul."
The died down. The wave empire of Chingis crumbled. Europe and Islam and China re- covered from the tremendous im- pact.
But the Tartar conquest left And deep traces where it passed.
namc the
of the
of terror "Genghis Khan" inspired a hun- dred legends.
What conceivable parallel can there be between such a man and Stalin, the Marxist leader of a Socialist State?
The answer, I think, is that we Judge Stalin wrongly if we think of him primarily as a Communist. Primarily he is a great Asiatic chieftain, whose vision is of a great
Asiatic Empire, preasing upon Europe, perhaps even dominating Europe, avenging Europe's con- quest of Asia.
"Remember that I, too, am an Asiatic," he said once to a Japanese Ambassador.
It was a profoundly significant remark.
or
For this Georgian the Bolshevik revolution itself was less a rising of oppressed classes than a rising of oppressed peoples: a revolt against Westernism in all its manifesta-. tions. It is significant that in the -early years he busled himself with the question of the "nationalities,"
with not
social
economic matters.
It is significant that, come to power, he broke the "Western- ised" old Bolsheviks and aur- rounded himself with men free from European contamination.
He brought Russia more and more out of European influence.
He began to shift her industries
Into Asla--not only for strategic reasons.
The centre of gravity of the Russian Empire has been moved. castwards, Aslawards, its old his- toric centres are becoming out- lying frontier regions.
Russia under Stalin becomes a great Central and North Asiatic Empire, pressing on Europe, press- ing Into China, pressing perhaps, In the near future, on the Islamic lands of South Asia.
Not (with allowance for the seven centuries' gap) so unlike the Empire
'af Chingis-with Georgian instead of à Tartar at its head.
Stalin, like Temujin, has taken a Narodov: It is Vozhd title. Leader of the Nations.
Not, you notice, Leader of the Workers. Leader of the Nations.
The man who chose that for himself has the Imperlai mind. Can you imagine Lenin making such a choice: or Indeed taking any title at all?
The boasts of Stalin are not-of- social achievements or of the wel- fare of the masses.
They are of the size and strength of the Union: of the might of its arms; of its readiness to "break the necks of its enemies."
The flatteries of Stalin are ful-- some and obsequious: nothing like them has been heard in Europe since Byzantium fell.
A strange and ironic sequel to a: Marxist revolution.
But there it is! The Georgian Vozhd sits in the Kremlin, sur- rounded by his Vizlers and his sycophants, proud of the vast ex- tent of his dumains did of his unquestioned mastery over mil-. lions, boasting of his great armles, threatening terrible war against. Any who defy his will: dreaming. perhaps of new raids which shall force new European peoples to submit to an Astatic overlord.
Not so completely unlike Chiugle, after all.
Will Poetry Survive the War?
It is not to be thought of that the
Flood
Of British freedom, which, to the
open sea
Of the world's praise, from dark:
antiquity
Hath
flowed, "with
waters, unwithstood,"
pomp
of
Roused though it be full often to:
#mood
Which spurns the check of salu-
tary bands,
That this most famous Stream in:
boys and sands
Should perish; and to evil and to
Rood
the should give the maximum help
poet. Is there any? Recento far as I remember, none of us was always the way of poetry, and days are a discouragement to possible to the Finns.'
asked this question or had cause it is likely to be the way again,
Poetry, I can hear it said, is an Those of us who were of reading Nazi bluster, promising Sweden
to ask it at the beginning of the lost)
pearance of those splendid connets which needs happy moments for lis the fate of Finland, will certain-war, and there are many to whom it age in 1814 remember the Orst ap-inspiration, or effluence of sheer joy ly not mollify the indigna-will seem superfluous now. written by a young poet, practically nurture. It is quite true that much
own circle, the en- Surely poetry, being immortal as unknown outside his tion aroused. Thus deavour to drive the Northern the air we breathe will survive the which Dean Inge quoted from the poetry has its source in delight and neutrals out of the League and mortality of the battlefield as it has pulpit of St. Paul's and thus com- in the contemplation of the delight- always survived it? And not only mended to the world at large. They ful, but is not the greatest poetry to frighten the Scandinavian will it survive it but it will snatch were the precursors of many poems often that which is inspired by the newer glories in the process. That which proved that poetry was still a terrible, the horrifle or the tragic- vital force in Britain. With that the poetry which sets before us, as countries into prohibiting as-
experience behind us, it is surely an in an Incandescent light, the beauty
What is common sistance to the Finns has falled and brought the threatened tallons and mechanised arms impertinence to ask whether our of suffering?
illet.
it not so much delight as the excile- States into closer association to has taught confidence that the poetry will survive the present con- all kinds of poetry worth the name
glant of Bolshevism may be resist aggression.
And yet I ask the question not ment under which it is produced.
of doned by a brave and resolute only because the days are full At the beginning of last century Of no less significance are the nation. There is no other safe- dangers which seem calculated to Britain found herself faced with the demonstrations in the south and ty for neutrals but common discourage poets from writing, but aggression of Napoleon and the because in recent years it has been menoce of Invasion, and Wordsworth, south-east of Europe. There action against the aggressor openly argued that poetry is essen- who nearly half a century later was also the menace of Hitlerism Like the barbarian tyrant of old, finally a thing of "the antique world," appointed Poet Laureate, responded Co. and Bolshevism is rousing the the Fuehrer has declared "the of which our modern habit of versi with those magnificent sonnels de- Liberty, In April, 1003, a month spirit of the neutrals and draw-sun shall not shine on any coun-fying is a survival toy out of dicated to National Independence and before we declared war upon Bonn-
the day, and those with which Words. parte, ho contributed to Union in resistance will A Text for To-day ing them closer together. The try which marches with our fashion. Owl."
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