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Grandad
"How's business, Joe?" "Colossal! But it will improveÌ”
gave a pledge
to Sweden
By Ronald Matthews
HAVE just been reading a treaty.
It is a treaty between Britain and France on one hand and Sweden on the other.
And by it Britain and France bind themselves to defend the Integrity of Sweden against Russia.
"Should the Russian Govern-
any territory belonging to the Swedish Government the Swedish
Government undertakes to.com- municate such demands immedi- ately to the British and French Governments.
"The British and French Gov- ernments, for their part, under-
take to furnish the Swedish Gov- ernment with naval and military forces.
for the purpose of
An Austrian who is now refugee in London draws a sharpment," it lays down, "make to the line of distinction between the Swedish Government any demands the imperialistle aimed at securing the cession two. It was
of mentality of the ruling classes of snys, Prussia before 1914, he which was the principal reason for the outbreak of the Great War. It is again a ruling minority which has brought about this second disaster, but now the prominent | leadors of the Nazi party, as well its most ardent adherents, the lower nearly all belong to middle-class, There are far too many middle-class people striving for the so-called better jobs, and their envy of this country is partly due to the opportunities which the of Empire gives to young their class.
On the other hand, the German workmen and peasants nothing about Empire-building
魏想
men
care
resisting the aggression of Rus-
sia.".
You rub your eyes. Another Allled guarantee, you may say, and not the least whisper of it to Far- lament?
Let me relieve you. I read this treaty, not in the secret archives of the Foreign Office, but in the British Museum.
And I have permitted myscif three little simplifications translating its French text.
In
In the place of "the Swedish Government" was written "the King of Sweden and Norway," in ment." "Her Majesty the Queen of the place of "the British Govern-
the United Kingdom"; and in the place of "the French Govern- ment" was writton "His Majesty
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Therefore if war is to be averted in the future, government must be placed in the hands of the peace loving masses, and the imperialist minority must be convinced that they are unfit to govern other people.
Another contributor to this con- the Emperor of the French." troversy is Dr. Edwyn Bevan. He Bays that there are not two factora In Germany, the Nazi Government and the German people. There are three factors; Arst, the ruling Nazie, who hate freedom and trample on the weak. They exist. ed long before the rise of Hitler. The second element is really civilised and liberal in feeling and outlook. If this element came into control again we might have Q Germany which would be 11 friendly and helpful member of a followship of nations.
The third element, probably the bulk of the Gorman people, is a docile and credulous mass, casily awayed by the Government in power. If the Nazi Government were replaced by a liberal one, the docile mass might quite well sup- port it; for one characteristic of this, mass la to be inclined to think that aldo right which actually comes out on the top,
Was
For the Treaty of Stockholm, up when Victoria drawn Emperor of France, and when Queen of England, Napoleon III
Sweden and Norway were united under a common crown, Was signed on November 21, 1055.
It Bounds in our cars, for all that, with a curious familiarity to- circum- day.
So do oven the stances of its arrangement. For the trouble that had led the Swedish king to seek his guaran- teo in 1855 was trouble on tho -border of Finland,
war.
Britain and Franco were ailten then, of course, in, the Crimean That did not interest tho
1 King of Sweden so much.
dispute worries had started with over the habits of migratory tribe of Laps, who were accus- tomed to pasture their reindeer alternately on one side and on the other of the Norwegian-Finnish frontier,
The Ransiatis, who had annexed Finland from Bweden in 1808,, complained. that tho nomada
herds were cating away to devas- tation the rich moss pastures on their side of the border. The dis- cussions, as was even then the Russian habit, dragged on inter- minably. There was an additional question about the right of Rus- sian fishermen to erect buildings In a Norwegian port on the Atlan- Lic that made matters yet more complicated.
Then suddenly the Russian Government cracked down. It an- nounced that it was going to close the Finnish-Norwegian frontier. The King of Sweden and Norway flew into a panic,
He could not believe that the mere trifling business of the rein- deers' moss could have led the There Tsar to such a decision, must be something more behind it. Russia, which had already had the Scandinavian one bite at cherry when she took Finland, obviously wanted another bite. She wanted a Norwegian port, ju fact. So Oscar I could only turn for ald the Western Powers, then locked in their own struggle with the colossus of the north.
to
He never had to call on his guarantors. Equally, the threat from Russia which Sweden' and Norway fear to-day may never materialise. But it is no new threat to the northern peoples:
still. In the beginnings of this century, you could talk to intelli-.
gent Norwegians who spoke of the menace of Russian imperialism.
History, till the common people take charge, has a way of running in the same grooves of nationalist tradition. Forms of government may change, but the same mag- notic objectives continue to exer- cise the same drawing power,
And from the beginnings of Russla's
emergence as a modern State, her Imperialism had always clashed with the now long dead imperialiom of the Crown of Sweden.
Their first war broke out as long ago as the end of the fifteenth cen- tury, its bone of contention the Swedish Empire on the eastern shore of the Baltic sco. Th: struggle raged at intervals through the sixteenth, when a Swedish ruler was king for a while of Poland, and all but succeeded to the Tsars' throne, too.
It continued in the seventeenth. when Gustavus Adolphus,” thế” Lion from Midnight," annexed the ground on which Leningrad now stands. For Sweden then was a groat Power, the champion of the Protestant cause in Europe. the equal in prestige of any of the Continent's kingdoms.
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It flickered down a the clgh- Leenth alter
Charles XII of Sweden, his march on Moscow turned back.
ruinously 'Was defeated in the Ukraine.
And then the Russian tide-the Lide of a Russia crammed into arti- Belal adolescence by Peter the Great-began to flow west.
It is still flowing, apparently, to- day. The historic pattern seems on the point of repetition,
For the droary age-old patterns of national entities and racial struggle, will continue to repeat themselves on the web of time until democracy rules in every land.
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by P. L. Mannock
Q
UINTON MCPHERSON has died.
Does that mean any- thing to you? No? Then-
--
Mr. Hymack is dead. Does that mean anything" either?
If the answer again is "No," you are either young, or you. have a short memory, or an Important part of your educa- tion was neglected.
For, 20 years ago, Mr. Hymack was famous on the music halls. and Mr. Hymack's real name was Quinton McPherson. Under that name his death, aged 09, in Clapham, is now announced. _by_a_theatrical paper.
Mr. Hymack's was one of the most original acts over soch in variety. I saw it often,
He never opoke, danced or sang, As he strolled about the stage, doing casual things, the weirdest changes would suddenly happen to his natty clothes.
His blue waistcoat would go yellow. His spats would turn from black to pink. On his topper vivid meen hatband would flash into being. His hands, withdrawn from hla pockets, would be in scarlet gloves Tle, handkerchief and `cuffs, all figured in these in- stantaneous magical transforma- tions, at which he seemed as bewildered as the audience,
How was it done? Some elaborate system of invisible threads and springs, the secret of which was, known only to himself and his wife. She it was who prepared. everything before he went on. It took her over an hour every time. Nothing ever went wrong.
One day she died.
"Mr. Hymack," as an aet, ended there and then. Grief-stricken, and robbed of his indispensable- help, he lost heart. He vowed no one else would take her place. Nobody ever did.
Work grew scantier. Ill-luck pursued him to the end of his days. Many months ago I met him play- :ing an extra. part for a day'in
a Jeasle
casle Matthews' nim on location.. up the Thames.
Now and again there would come a burst of comparative prosperity --some weeks on tour or a series of nim-studio
calis.""
From time to time; friends would' urge him to revive the act the Chameleon Comedian, as it used
to be billed..
He always refused.
Now he is dead-forgotten by soi many of thosa. ho ́amured and mystified, and less than a name to. the new generation.
Ho was one of the last, and cor- tainly the most unusual, of the
quick-chango artists, followers. of Fregoli, Uga. Blondi and R., A. Roberts.
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Does anyone know his sacrat even to-day?. Did he ever diacioso- his methods; ovon after ho had al- carded them?. I wonder,