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An Austrian who is now refugee in London draws a sharp the line of distinction between two. It was the imperialistic mentality of the ruling classes of Prussia before 1914, he says, which was the principal reason
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By Ronald Matthews
HAVE just been reading a treaty.
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It is 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. ment." It lays down, "make to the Swedish Government any demands aimed at securing... the cession of any territory belonging to the Swedish Government the Swedish Government undertakes to com- municate such demands immedi- for the outbreak of the Great War.ately to the British and French
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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 resisting the aggression of Rus- sia."
You rub your cyca. Another Allied guarantee, you may say, and not the least whisper of it to Par- llament?
It is again a ruling minority which has brought about this second. disaster, but now the prominent leaders of the Nazi party, as well its most ardent adherents, lower nearly all belong to the middle-class. There are far too many middle-class people striving for the so-called better joba, 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
and workmen
peasants nothing about Empire-building, Therefore if war is to be avorted
In the place of "the Swedish Government
the was written in the future, government must bo
King of Sweden and Norway," in placed in the hands of the peace
the place of "the British Govern- loving masses, and the imperialistment," "Her Majesty the Queen of minority must be convinced that they are unft to
other prople.
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care
Let me relleve you. I read this treaty, not in the secret archives of the Foreign Ofce, but in the British Museum.
And I have permitted myself three little simplifications translating its French text.
the United Kingdom"; and in the place of "the French Govern- ment" was written "His Majesty the Emperor of the French."
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Another contributor to this con- troversy is Dr, Edwyn Bevan. Ho says that there are not two factors in Germany, the Nazi Government For the Treaty of Stockholm.
up when Victoria and the German people. There drawn
Queen of England, Napoleon III are three factors; fira, the ruling Emperor of France, and when Nazis, who hato freedom and sweden and Norway were united trample on the weak. They exist- ed long before the rise of Hitler. The second olement is really civilised and liberal in feeling and outlook. If this element came into control again we might have a Germany which would bo A friendly and helpful member of a fellowship of nations.
The third cloment, probably the bulk of the Germani people, is a docilo and credulous mass, easily awayed by the Government in power. If the Nazi Government were replaced by a liberal one, the docilo mass might quite well sup- port it; for one characteristic of this mass is to be inclined to think that sido right which, actually comes out on the top.
under a common crown, signed on November 21, 1855,
It sounds in our cars, for all hat, with curious familiarity to- that, day.
So do oven the circum- stances of its arrangement. For the trouble that had led the Swedish king to sock.bis guaran- too in 1855 was trouble, on the border of Finland.
war.
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Britain and France were alles then, of course. In the Crimean That did not interest the King of Sweden so much,
dispute worries had started with over the habits of a migratory tribo of Lapa, who were accus- tomed to pasture their reindeer alternately on one alde and on the other of the Norwegian-Floniah frontier.
The Russians, who had annexed Finland from Bweden in 1808, complained that the nomads
herds were eating 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 shermen to erect buildings
in a Norwegian port on the Allan- tic that made matters yet more complicated.
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Then suddenly--the-Russian Government cracked down. It an- nounced that it was going to close the Flanish-Norwegian frontier. The King of Sweden and Norway flew into a panic,
He could not believe that the tere trifling business of the rein- dcors' moss could have led the
There Toar to such a decision. must be something more behind it. Russia, which had already had one bite at the Scandinavian cherry when she took Finland, obviously wanted another bite. She wanted a Norwegian port, in fact.
So Oscar I could only turn for aid to the Western Powers. then locked in their own struggle with the colossus of the north,
He never had to call on his guarantors. Equally, the threat from Russia which Sweden and Norway fear to-day may never materiallse. But it is no new threat to the northern peoples.
Still, in the beginnings of this century, you could talk to Intelli-
H
rent Norwegians who spoke of the menace of Rustlan 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- netic objectives continue to exer- cise the same drawing power.
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And from the beginnings of Russla's emergence as a modern State, her imperialism had always clashed with the now long dead Imperialiam of
Crown Sweden.
Their first war broke out as long ago as the end of the Afteenth cen- tury, its bone of contention the Swedish Empire on the eastern The shore of the Baltic sea. struggle raged at intervals through a Swedish the sixteenth, when 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, the Lion from Midnight," annexed the- ground on which Leningrad now stands. For Sweden then was a great 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 in the eigh- teenth after Charles XII Sweden, his march on Moscow turned back, Was ruinously defeated in the Ukraine.
And then the Russian tide-the tide of a Russia crammed into arti- ncial 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 dreary age-old patterns of national mamities and racial struggle, will continue to repeat themselves on the web of time until democracy rules in every land.
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UINTON MCPHERSON has died.
Does that mean any- in thing to you?
No7 Then-——
Mr. Hymack is dead.
Does that either?
mean anything. --~
If the answer again is "No," you are either young, or you. have a short memory, or an Important part of your educa- tlon was neglected.
For, 20 years ago, Mr. Hymack was famous on the music hails. and Mr. Hymack's real name was Quinton McPherson. Under that name his death, aged 59, In Clapham, is now announced by a theatrical paper.
Mr. Hymack'e was one of the most original acts ever seen in variety, I saw it often.
He never spoke, danced or sang. As he strolled about the stage. doing casual things, the weirdest changes would suddenly happen to hls natty
clothes.
His blue waistcoat would go yellow. His spats would turn from black to pink.
On his topper, a vivid green hatband would flash into being. His horida, withdrawn from his pockets, would be in scarlet gloves. Tio, handkerchief and ours, all figured in these in- stantaneous magical transforma- tions, at which he seemed as bowildered as the audience.
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How was it done? Some elaborite system of invisible threads and springs, the secret of which was known only to himself and his wife. Bhe it was who prepared everything before he went on. It took her over an hour every time. Nothing over went wrong.
One day she died.
Mr. Hymack," as an act, ended Grief-stricken, there and then. 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- lng an "extra" part for a day in a Jessie Matthews' film on location. up the Thames,
Now and again there would come a burst of comparative prosperity —some weeks on tour or a series of: film-studio calls."
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 sơ- many of those be amused and mystified, and less than a name to the new generation,
He was one of the inst, and coz- tainly the most unusual, of the "quick-change" artists, followers. of Fregoli, Ugo Blondi and R. A.. Roberts.
Does anyone know his socrat; oven to-day?' Did ho. over disclose. his methods, even after he had dis- carded them? I wonder.