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This is the reputation a tragic and lovely part of Europe has gained from being the place periodically chosen by Great Powers for a battleground,
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and We khall have endured under the old Turkish years ago, wonders to what , rule.
sort of kingdom he will succeed millions of allies in the Bal-
kans. And the unhappy Balkans, This. and not their own when he comes of age next year. which lie in between, ure his
But for the present their lot first stepping stones,
shortcomings.
provented has
The astutest of them all is is hard. If Greece succumbs them from settling down. from Boris of Bulgaria, and if any the whole of the Balkans pa Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece: ful States.
The Balkans are Jugoslavia, building progressive and peace man can come through this new under German-Italian domina-
Balkan storm still on his throne, tion. the tiny statelet of Albania also
This is the reason why a Bal- Boris is the man. counts among them; and Tur-
Jugoslavin, as you soon will kan King has only the ultimate key, too, ranks as a Balkan
Remote from all possible see if Greece falls, will be par- choice between abdication and
titioned. Power because, since Chanak, osassinations (I can think of help, as he is, he has only one she still has that one foot in but two or three exceptions to and allow the
choice-passively to sit back Hitler will take the northern
Germans Europe which we fought the last this rule).
to part, which used to belong to march through his country the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Great War, among other things,
In Spain. King Carol of when Hitler decides to send and which will give Germany to deny her.
Rumania, his throne already them, or at Hitler's bidding her longed-for port
Adriatic.
Can We Do It?
LOSING AN EMPIRE
THE entry of the Nazi Luft- waffe into the Mediterranean war theatre, and the talks be tween Hitler and Mussolini at Berchtesgaden pointedly syn- chronise; there is a widespread belief that Germany is to take control of the Axis war machine in the Mediterranean. But there are good reasons to feel That Nazi intervention on behalf of her partner has come too late.
Happy we are to-day that she The capture of Tobruk byhus that one foot on the Europe British forces virtually seals the fate of Libya 08 part-of-the-Italian-Empire.
a
Dardanelles,"
side of the an because as long as she is there
By DOUGLAS REED
on
the
Mussolini will take most of
the Dalmatian-coast-while-
tiny Serbin would be loft in mock independence.
we have a chance of checking Distinguished Commentator on-European Affairs
and Author of "Insanity Fair')
Inst. is fighting against Hitler's netively to send his troops Bulgarin would pass under German domination as effective- and Himmler's attempt to force against Greece.
ly as Hungary. General Franco to surrender
Russin, the only country which could effectively help the choice of fighting or yield- Then Turkey would be given
Our Chance
Its strategical importance-can-
Hitler's southward drive on the not be over emphasised for ever edge of Europe. since Libyn fell under Italian sovereignty in 1912, Italy has developed Tobruk as a naval base. Its potentialities in this respect were recognized as long
We have a chance of keeping n foothold there ourselves, of checkmating his, plan to close ago as the late 18th century the Dardanelles and the Black
when one writer observed: "It
For centuries the sufferings of Europe have reached their highest point in the Balkans.
him.
JT
the execution, immediately after politicians have sent her. a visit to Berchtesgaden, of the Rumanian Nazi lender, Corneliu Codreanu.
it should succeed, King the Balkans. is still watching ing, some others have Carol's fate would be tragic, for suspiciously from the Coventry yielded, and, with Hitler coming which Our island-minded down through Spain to Gibraltar Hitler has never forgiven him to
and through Syria towards Egypt the battle for the Medi- We have no better friends terranean, for Africa and the in the world than the tens of British Empire would begin in. millions of Balkans peasants, earnest.
A
mighty
The Balkans are but stepping- stones-but, if we could mani- pulate them skilfully, they could
Carol Says: 'Lupescu Is My Wife'
is as a future man-of-war har- Sea and to bottle-up Russia un- til he has conquered us and is bour that Tobruk is likely to be important. It has been visited ready to strike at her. by both British and Italian
Incidentally, you should never squadrons and has become an speak of Hungary as a Balkan
In London, at the Ritz Hotel. They have centuries of guerilla object of considerable solicitude Power unless you wish mortally
against you may see King Zog of Al warfare to the government of Italy." to offend a Hungarian.-
Italy's solicitude for Tobruk
This is not so much because bania, with his Queen Geral- enemy in their blood,
dine, the Americau-Hungarian, The spirit of the comitaji still trip Hitler up. and the advantages it offered Hungary is, in fact, remote developed into sheer hunger from the mountain range which whom he married, and his little peasant-warrior with a gun in which found satisfaction in the gives the Balkan Peninsula its son, who takes his outing in the his hand-boils in them; they park with two Albanian guards resemble the Boers, and we crusade of 1911-12 when Tripoli hame, but because Hungary always in attendance.
*still remember the way those was rested from Turkish con-learly loves to think that she be
Strange tricks our times play farmer-soldiers fought in South trol. Now Italy has lost longs to "the-West," its civilisa
n the men who have at
one Africa, Tobruk, and just as the fall of tion and its culture... time or another occupied the Bardia made practically impossi-
front of the European stage:
A Hard Lot ble the successful defence of the
King Zog, once a Colonel in the If we could awaken faith in naval port, so will the loss of
Imperial Austrian Army, some Britain among those millions
TO save Magda Lupescu from Tobruk compromise beyond hope the position of Derma and they won their freedom, the Ritz a former Austrian cavalry worth armies to us.
officer Prince Starhemberg.
where she would face a charge Benghazi. Control
have of this golden age seemed to
now a pilot in General de But they have not the faith of complicity in murder, North part of the
African dawned for them.
Gaulle's Air Force.
in us that they had a hundred King Carol is understood to have coast will provide Bri.
years ago, and in the last ten told the Spanish authorities that In practice. the greed and Lain with
Not far from the Ritz is years, especially, they have he is married to her. immeasurable rapacity of Great European Brown's Hotel, which some come to doubt us. advantage in countering Nazi Powers have made this last years ago had a mudest and re-.
The wedding is said to have intervention in the Mediterran-century not much better, for tiring guest-the present King What they want from us is taken place in- London
of promise can; neither must the great them, than the centuries they George of Greece, who now sits not strategical value of Crete, which-
on his, throne in Athens for the moerney"-people in this coun- the British have occupied since al hesitation to pronounce early second time and watches the try cannot understand how the asking for Mme. Lupescu's ex- the disastrous Italian venture judgment, but certainly there Italian invader striking towards word has lost credit in recent tradition, claiming that she is
his capital.
years--but the promise of are indications that Italy, as n
implicated in the murder of the against Greece, be forgotten.
"liberation." militant Power, is nearing the "Can the British help me to
| Iron Guard leader Codreanu end of her tether. Her forces hold on to part of Greece, or an And they want also, and;
Accompanied by four secretaries,. Luftwaffe can have a tremend are in flight on two fronts in the I booked to return to Brown's soon, some kind of success, three valets, and two malds, Carol oua nuisance value in the Middle Middle East, and she has been Hotel, there to hope for a second even a small success, ng an and Lupescu have a twelve-roomed driven halfway out of Albania restoration?" These are the earnest of our strength, to re-suite in Madrid's Palace Hotel, over- Sen, but warplanes cannot save It is a disheartening blow to the thoughts that fill King George's awaken their age-old belief in looking the Plaza del Neptuno. Libya for Italy, nor prevent the Axis which is not likely to be mind to-day.
Mme. Lupercu has not left her. Auccess of the British and recouped even with the nasis-
sulic. Those who hayo seen her say And Latest BRITISHI War News Abyssinian offensive in Eritrentance of German military in- In Jugoslavin, young King Just give them that-and the the is haggard, and spends a largo
and Ethiopia. There is a natur-genuity.
Peter, his father murdered six people of this country need it, port of her time weeping.
A hundred years ago, when times passes on the steps of the in the Balkans they would be being sent back to Rumania,
by JOHN MONK SAUNDERS
with
LAURENCE OLIVIER
· FRANKLIN DYALL » HAY PETRIE HENRY VICTOR-JOHN TURNBULL /UNITIO
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It is true that the German
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our arms and our vigour.
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The Rumanian Government is