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HITLER and RUSSIA
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and Luxemburg. Hydraulic became Chancellor of the Reich on the frontiers of the Low Countries
January 30, 1933. That evening he stood in the lighted window while the
Just as in Schlieffen's time, the great torchlight procession tramped Nazi plans for invading all three territories should itler decido ta and flared below.
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It was portentous past all guessing at that time. Hier was resolved to destroy the ideals of the League of Nations and to restore the Germante war-creed in 'a more formidable shape than ever.
Three considerations are instruc- tive. First, Hitler will hardly hazard a mechanised attack on the Low Countries while there is danger of a short frost and thaw. He must be surer of his weather,
Second, it is not so certain that the and would game
pay. Belgium Holland are in a far stronger position than when war broke out. The The Allies can give swift support. Then and Now
When he rose to Bismarck's place Nazi onslaught might be folled after
revolting the world. 50011 to as a preliminary, he was succeed Hindenburg. He became an
Third, if Hitlerism established air- uncrowned Kaiser with more power bases against Britain in a conquered than any of them since Charlemagne Holland, the enemy's communications and the Othos a thousand years be-would become much more vulnerable
fore.
Seven years ago Germany contained has ubout 65,000,000 people. He
violence ar created by cumulative empire of nearly twice the size, with about 110,000,000 of inhabitants.
to British bombers.
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For these reasons, I is quite possi- ble that Hitler, Goring, and the Generals have not yet taken a fundu- mental devision to strike ut and throught the Low Countries when tlie going is good. But the watchword on the menaced side is "Qui vive?"".
Napoleon never had so many sub-and the sentinels are unsleeping.
Mind and Mattor
jects.
"Munich to Moscow"
When Hitler became Chancellor he proclaimed himself the implacable antagonist of the Bolshevik revolu- tion. He destroyed Czecho-Slovaklu at Munich amidst the wild execra- He murdered tions of Moscow. Poland with Moscow's aid.
That Yugoslavia should have shown open resistance to Axis demands for control of its rail- roads and industries in the event pact he precipitated another Europeat of war, and that to this resis- war. It may become another world-
By means of the Nazi-Soviet com-
Iwar before we are done with it and
of
For the moment, however, the Scandinavian situation is the graver. The world is forced to realise that what seemed unthinkable may occur. A Russian attack on Sweden and Nor- way can no longer be ruled out of reckoning We live in an age of monstrous possibilities. In the moral sphere their shapes are like the horrific forms of glont reptiles and other creatures far back in geological time,
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As fonnerly against Finland, the
Selver
"Complete information on any subject under the sun? I don't need itif"
FINLAND'S
Strong
Old Man
by George Godwin
Soviet organs opened with a Nazi WHO is this Field Marshal for Finland was thick with soldiers technique of abuse and menace. To Mannerheim, leader of Fin-and spies.
both Stockholm and Oslo, the Krem-
So he moved through the land, und
in sent notes meant to intimidate. land's gallant little army against behind him there formed a prosant. The replies were wary but not weak, the might of Russia? Challenge and Stand
army, an army armed with scythes, We have all read about the Man-axes, knives and, here and there, an
old rific. nerheim Line the defence system he has built up along sections of his country's castern frontier.
tance has now been added the him. leas open but apparently as real Neutrals and Jeopardy objections of Hungary to do-
Like Wallenstein he has his touch mination by Germany must be
of irreligious superstition. Men encouraging to British states- his type ore apt to regard seven years men at a time when encourage- us a mystical number,
The northern kingdoms are well
When Mannerheim reckoned the ment ម more than usually
to the within their legal as well as moral
moment had come to strike he could From one end of Europe welcome.
other the lesser neutrals are in dread, right in alding the Finns. They can- nny day may not desist. Human nature forbids it.
But what kind of man is this number 12,000 followers. He had British backing for the not knowing what
Garibaldi offered those who followed bring. Not one of them feels sale. So do the life and death Issues con- 73-year-old soldier who has behind nothing to offer them save what Yugoslav stand is visible. If Nazt victory would make vassals of cerning their own safety.
hin the faith and confidence of all him to the Jiberation of Italy similar support exists for Hun. them all: Not one of them would-be
his countrymen?
wounds, hunger and death. The subject has been spread out gary's attitude, it is not yet visi-
in the Soviet newspapers. Semi- To understand a little of what Curl
It Was then that Mannerheim ble, and indeed will not be until
official statements pronounce that the Gustav Mannerheim means to the revealed himself as the type of all hope of keeping German This war in the moral sense is the Swedish
Norwegian replies, Firns one must know why he has soldier who forgets the textbooks. friendship without accepting greatest of wars. The Allied caure especially the former, were unsatis- become a legend in his own life-time and turns to the logle of events and.
is true and glorious in the Miltonic factory and fringed danger. German overlordship has van sense. It is a war for Europena.i ished in Budapest. Moreover, freedom and for the rights and hopes Will the Bear Dance? the British are at this moment of man in all the world. preoccupied with
Baltic
Could Hitlerlam triumph, the po developments. Beside those, litical and humane ideals of western civilisation would suffer their worst the question of Hungary's posi-throwback since the Dark Ages. tion may seem secondary.
the
free as now.
The Miltonic Cause
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beer.
arid
He faced, in all, 90,000 Russian troops. And they were well-armed and seasoned men.
For that happens to few men. the facts before him. All depends upon whether the Nations mostly prefer their heroes Kreml can be induced
by Hitler dead.
Had and Ribbentrop to pay the price of
The reason is very simple. there been no Mannerheim, there Mephistopheles, whose bargain wes for body and soul.
would have been no Republic of Finland.
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In Ave months he drove the last of them out of the northern land, uchieving this epic military feat by taking them post by post, annexing their arms, their equipment, adding. It to his own.
So, the full alliance that Itler and
would back Ribbentrop seek,
offer the Hungary's position is
Against this deep com-
acute largest of delusive advantages but plicated by its need of friend-round of to-day the more
ordeal of the neutrals In north- would put Moscow ni the mercy ut ship with Germany, by western, central, and eastern Europe the Reich.
Very tall he stands six feet two the in- trade relations with the latter must be seen, as well as
The weaknesses of the Soviet Em-inches in his socks-Field-Marshal mortal example of the Finas.
pire would be gravely increased by Mannerheim, Baron in, the Peerage
But when Mannerheim returned which always contain a threat
in attack on Sweden and Norway, of Finland, is as lean and as hard victorious to Helsingfors it was to to Hungarian economic inde- Alarm in the Low Countries pendence, by fear for Hungary's Holland and Belgium, have
Annexation of northernunost. Nor-and as upright to-day as he was find a Provisional Government de- political independence should roused as by the tocsin. They fear
that they and not Sweden and way so as to give Russia open ports when, in 1917. after the collapse of manding German assistance to drive
the Empire of the Tsars, for whom the Russians from the new capital. Germany monopolise Hungarian Norway might and themselves first on the North Atlantic at Narvik und Hammerfest is easy to talk of but not
he had been fighting, he slipped over markets, and by the fact that and the Aring line.
easy to do.
the Karelian frontier into Finland, extremely active and strategic-: One of the Nazi trespassers in the Swedish Iron-Ora ally situated National Socialist air
which was then part of the Russian been brought down had Belgium. Among his papers were The greatest of the Swedish iron-Empire. movement exists in Hungary. photographs of Belgian defences. mines are in northern Lappland, far
When Russia collapsed us our ally, holm. Next door to Greater Ger-Along the Dutch frontier heavy move-within the Arelle circle. They are
a cavalry corps ments of German troops were ac-marvellous deposits said to contain Mannerheim was many little Hungary has to use tact. Hungarian statesmen have of the Nazi Press:
percentage Iron-ore. had to be doubly tactful in satis- fying their own people that'
He glowered on them and reminded' them of his first warnings. They_de-J clined to listen, sent for Von der Goltz. The German general come.. But Munnerheim went to Stock-
Finland would have need of him.
companied by the bullying obbligato 00 per cent. of all Europe's high commander with thirty years Im- again, he said. He was content to
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It seemed possible that the vicla- If Russia conquered northern Fin-
wait.
Hungary was not coming under ton of either kingdom or both might land the shadow of her hand would civilian clothes who Ilmped into had to seek recognition of her new?
fall upon the Lappland iron-fields.
perial service behind him.
But it was an exhausted man inj
He retured in 1919, when Finland
Helsinki when the first Provisional
status from the world; when, too, her Government of the new State, Just| born of the Grand Duchy, was in people were starving. session.
Moscow would never be allowed to possess them. Germany is the chief buyer of the Swedish ore, and covels
Mannerheim was well received, control of that resource more than anything except the mastery of but his utterances sounded mono- Rumanian oil.
tonous. Stalin's Test
With Mannerheim come foodships- the food-ships which saved the country,
be imminent. The Dutch Cabinet the yoke of any big Power and held a special meeting last Sunday. in satisfying at least one big Military leave was cancelled in both countries. All measures were take. Power that Hungary was for instant resistance. pursuing по foreign policy"Free or Dio" adverse to that larger country's
In Brussels additional troops were
In that year Mannerheim became interests.
called up to the number of nearly
Arst President of the Republic. Since: "We must get the Bolshevik army Should Britain's guarantees be 40,000. Practically Belgium is on a
Less than four months ago Stalin and we must never let the Germans they war-footing, with nearly 700,000 men
out of Finland," he kept repeating, then he has remained her, Strong.
Mon. extended to 'Hungary,
available.
had the cards in his hands, Ho would cover two States which
Although seventy-three, he has the: held all the trumps. He seemed the in."! have a territorial dispute bo-
bearing of a 'man in the fifties, Hia. The Dutch are determined not to most astute player alive. Then, in
hair remains plentiful and iron grey, tween them. Hungary demands foll below the unyielding spirit of the flush of assurance, he lost his
thele ancestors in the heroic
his eyes, of the light, hard blue of the roturn of Transylvania from when liberty was won. One Finland acumen and fumbled his cards.
northern skies, are clear and steady, Rumania. Possibly as guaran-makes-many.
And in spite of the fact that Mari- - nerhelm's methods, when he last? drove the Russians out of Finland,. That was in the lute autumn of earned him the litle of the "bloody 1917, when Finland's day is but a executioner," Finland sees in him ac few hours and her darkness has peer of Garibaldi and Simon Bolivar, something of the terror of an eternal and is consolidated under her strong night, ge
age
There has been no such blunder
tor of both States against a No doubt is now left that both the but this is worse-aince the Napoleon third party's threat, Britain Low Countries will aland, together to of Tilalt began to defeat himself by may unwittingly acquire the the, death if either in assalled.
despising Portugal; role of umpire. between them.
This should, however, be hardly Nazi submarines attack Netherlands. It is certain that Stalin, was misled less embarrassing than Ger- shipping with peculiar. brutality by false advice. Why should be not many's new position between this is meant to intimidate, the effect settle with Finland and Scandinavia
upon a people with the fibre and Why should the autocrat of all the Russia and anti-Comintern traditions of the Dutch has been the Russias become Ribbentrop's monkey?
J. L. G. Japan.
opposito.
So they told him to get on with the first job, and Mannerhelm turned his back once more on the granite capital.
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mani:
· Mannerholm had to work in secret,
She is well content to do so.