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"Now Tommy, what do you understand by the term Blitzkrieg?"
"It's a word invented by the Nazis, Sir, for sending planes to England to be shot down!"
STALIN'S FOREIGN POLICY IN 1940
Waiting For
"Something to Turn Up'
By
A. Masloff
Ocean.
on
planned figure, and there can be no question of further rapid progress, even on the patient
Arithmetic Without Tears
By John Craigie
CONSCIENTIOUSLY dearing my attle In accordance with Govern- mental instruction, 1 come across some well-thumbed school-books' of an nge long past.
I belleve it is a matter for con- gratulation and pride in the teaching profession that educational methods. are not as they were
in earlier eneration, that mental pabulum for the young is now garnished and served up in much mor attractive form than in former days,
But is this so? I gingerly opened one dust-covered volume on arith- metly, expecting It to contain
the usuni dismal collection of exercises, and was agreeally surprised to find that the subject was presented in highly diverting way, and that in
In the process of working the sums the pu- pils must have gleaned a considerable amount of miscellaneous internation. ↑ Much of this appeared to be uscless, I but perhaps not more so than some of the Instruction given to-day. It was certainly a jaudable effoṛt, at arithmeile without tears!
Paisley Economics
Here -are one or two - exercises cuiled at random from the book, which was published over a hundred years ago and was expressly "De- signed for the use of young Ladies” — "Haubee. This is a word used in the Northern counties, and particularly in Scotland, for a halfpenny. A multitude of women, and very many giria, sro employed in the cotton works at Pais¬ ley. Many of the principal manufac turers, having made considerable for- tunes, have built elegant houses, and several of them pay individually 2000 sterling a week fo their workpeople.
"Suppose there should be as many of these opulent manufacturers in Paisley as there are calendar months In the year, how many baubees, would they all pay in that space of time to their respective dependants; and how many parents, each conlaining as many baubecs as there are degrees in the circumference of the carth at the
equator, could be made up out of the entire number!"
For those who wish to check their effort; the answer is given as 149,- 760,000 baubees; 410,000 porcels.
Again, how many of us would solve
+
A Strange Medley
It had never occurred to me that the exploits of highwaymen could be featured in arithmetic texts; I think fuw exercises of the following type would have a marked appeal to the youth of to-day:
"N.B.-One of the Beelest race-horses
Newmarket horse-courses. in 71⁄2
The year 1940 was one of
the fence, particularly. in regard to Asin, where Moscow's waiting in Stalin's foreign
one concern is, of course, what policy, in spite of the ap-
the United States intends to do. parently great successes of
Russia's internal and economic is simple sum without consulting an the opening of the year. In
policy has, of course, been deter-appropriate work of reference?
The of father to the is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to the coming phase of the peace was a success for Stalin. mined by this foreign policy and virtuous Lord Russell, who fell an under the provisions of the Telecommuni- war, if only on account of Outward forms were preserved by the course of the war. Her innocent victim to the intrigues. of a conquered enemy, economic course has thus boen Party rage, altered n hundred thousand
pounds to save his son's Ike, Divider Asiatic questions, the Rus- towards sian factor may be of great and a small one at that, and it conservative rather than pro- this sum into as many parts as there was possible to maintain the gressive. This is no paradox. ure zoney on the earth, added to the number of Muses and Graces in importance; it is worth fiction that the war had been To any careful observer it has fabulous history." while, therefore, to consider fought only for an improvement been perfectly clear that the end the results of Russian for- of Russia's land frontier.. of the second Five-year Plan PAUSE TO PONDER
Militarily the wor Was a brought Russia's economic eign policy in 1940.
technical success for Russia, development to a critical point. THE programme of Mr Mat- At the beginning of the since the supposedly impregnabic Early in the working of the third suoka's tour of Axis Europe has year Russia was occupied Mannerheim Line had been Five-year Plan great technical been admirably punctuated by with the concluding stages pierced; but from an historical and trading difficulties made "One. Nicks, having commilited, a robbery at Rochester, in Kent, about friends. He arrived in a gaily of her Finnish adventure, and even a strategical point of their appearance. On the sur-4 in the morning, and suspecting him
defeat, face they were concerned, with self recognised, by the party robbed, beflagged Berlin as King Peter which had been an interrup- view it had been
over the Thames and rodo~to -York overthrew the pro-Axis Govern- tion in the Stalin policy of because the true purpose of quality, but in reality it was not inde for Gravesend, where he ferried Stalin's whole Finnish adventure quality that was at issue but with auch speed thai, as was attested ment of Yugo-Slavia, and is now non-participation in the war had simply been to profit by the fact that the country's by the chief magistrate at his trial, he oppeared on bowling-green that visiting Mussolini as the victori- and waiting for its outcome belligerent coalitions to take big centrally and bureaucratically city at 8 o'clock the same evening embarrassment of the two organised economic system was solemnly vouched, occasioned his ac
which circumstance, so credibly ginia from all sides and thein the expectation of a
to provide for the quittal, the jury judging it to be im- sound of the Royal Navy's guns long and exhausting struggle conquests on his own account failing
possible for the same horse to bear the sound a burial roll for five more in Europe and of building and at last to reach the Atlantic country's needs.
same man so long a journey in 10 Italian warships.
up a third coalition, especial- this aim he failed complete- participation in
The way and Russia's non- hours. The distance is computed at 214 miles; supposing his horse was to it rescued have rested on the road for the space The Japanese Foreign Minis-ly in Asia. ter could have arrived at no
ly. Not Stalin but Hitler com- Stalin's Ministers from their of 2 hours, what was the average ex- worse moment from Hitler's Since the end of 1939 mands the Norwegian Atlantic economic perplexities, but there in of every ather hour?
And, in order that his pupils point of view. The Japanese Stalin had had to cut out const, and Stalin's Finnish is no concealing that the quality should have no false notion of the are realists; their ideological both items of this policy: he successes were insignificant of almost all goods produced Is speed of horses, the author consider- support of the "New Order" has had had to give up the idea alongside those of Hitler in poor, the quantity is below the never submerged their practical of any rapid Asiatic coali. Scandinavia,
ever known was Childers, who can ambitions. Recently the Pre-
7420 yards, the space of one of the mier's words that Japan could tion, whether in the Nean
minutes; which is at the amazing rate never become a totalitarian na- East, where Turkey had In the Balkans, while Stalin paper of reports and statistics. of tore than 331⁄2 miles in an hour. tion were reaffirmed..
And so, in those pre-crinoline days, simply declined to go his pursued a policy of slow and On December 30 Benediktoff, the young ladies picked up tips on That Japanese native ideology way, or in the Far East, cautious efforts at penetration the Commissar for Agriculture "form" even from their school-books. is suffering an eclipso as war where Japan's weakness and (apart from the annexation of published a statement in As for as I am concerned, It is the aims are blunted on the main- land of Asia is evidenced by the China's toughness were so the methods which had brought what has here been suggested, and I have no qualms of conscience Bessarabia), trying to profit by "Pravda" which fully bears out only "arithmetic" that has ever pro- vided me with any entertainment, almost farcical collapse of the great that while coquetting im success in Latvia, Lithuania, He wrote in entirely general in giving it a reprieve from the enl National Saivation Organisation, with the idea of an under- and Estonia, German foreign terms of "successes" in agricul-vage dump.. This body fell down on its pro-standing with Japan he was policy forcibly blocked his way ture, but specified nothing, apart gramme of impulsively sweeping compelled to support Chiang in Rumania and Hungary. It from a few extensions of the all industrial and private means Kai-shek; and he was gained further ground in Bul- area under certain sorts of SHELTERERS' TEN together in one great effort to
garin, and within the Russian wheat and potatoes. achieve the Imperial Way. The brought, whether he liked it Foreign Offee the pro-German
COMMANDMENTS immediate aim, termination of or not, into a virtual coali elements won the upper hand.
Ten commandments have been the war in China or embarkation tion with Britain and the cauging Molotoff's journey to A "victory report" issued issued to London's shelterers by on the southward expansion, was United States.
Berlin. But Molotoff's whole varlier by his commissariat said | the Regional Commissioners. not stated, but the prime initin- tora of the movement evidently
attitude in Berlin was governed that in the Kuban territory, one They are: by the tragle results for Italy, of Russia's best wheat-producing
(1) No Hitter. had in mind a death or glory
The Finnish adventure was and so for her "loyal", partner arcas, sixteen (sixteen!) out (2) No bribes for booking places... plan which was too desperate to brought to a close with a peace Germany, of the Greek campaign, of several thousand collective
(3) No animals, birds or per appeal to the golid bloc of Japan- which had its contradictory It may be that in the course of farms established a "record" by ese industrialists.
elementa. Diplomatically the the two days' journey from bringing in 1,600 kilograms of The N.S.A. still lives, shorn of
Moscow to Berlin the whole wheat per hectare (roughly many of its first fancies but the enabling Japan to use her best purpose of this visit was changed 12 cwt. per acro). The comment transformation has proved the troops from the northern bor-by directions from Moscow-in of Russia's German friends, existence of the powerful ́in- |-ders for service elsewhere. other words, from Stalin himself, whose Minister of Agriculture, fluence wielded by temperate and Opinion is more inclined to thebut in any case the purpose of Darre, took the opportunity to realistic elements. It is a sign, view that Japan will hold all she the journey vas only "tactical"+-boost himself once more, appear one hopes, that Tokyo is facing has in the north and will post-Stalin meant to go on waiting, ed in a discreet comparison in the future more soberly; theropone any ambitions she has in has certainly been less dash and the south until the war in efforts made in the Russian man average wheat yield-2,200 The zigzag policy and the press and wireless with the Ger-
Ing any musical instrument; begging or collecting money fire in the pronouncements of Europe has taken a definite turn. Foreign Office in the summer of kilograms a hectare.
selling any article or distri her leading statesmen lately. To realistic Japan, Britain's 1940 to discover "definitely"
buting advertising matter. The official figures of produc
(9) No. dangerous or offensive
articles may be taken in. and her dour resistance to air whether the German coalition tion in the Russian engineering
(10) Anyone suffering from bombing must mean a great was going to be victorious have industry talk at present of some
Infectious), illness may a non-aggression pact with Jn deal. It will be surprising if evidently been broken off their 15 to 16 per cent increase. Itdated to leave. pan for the cession of the whole Hitler has wrung from Mr Mat advocate, Dekanozof, was shift remains to be seen what next shelters forbidding, entrance to non- Special rules apply to reserved of Sakhalin Island, a large part suoka anything more potent than edator that very reason and sent month's conference will say, or ticket holders and pronouns the one of Korea and a few other things anti-British gesture.
to "Berlin, Stalin is once more fall to say, about this.
*
A radio commentary over the naval and military successes,
week-end suggested that Stalin,
at Hitler's insistence, would sign
ambulators, no furniture or bedding .except portable
stools, or covering and cu«' shions.
(4) No
(5)
•
(0)
entry to full shelters. No disturbance when enter- or leaving. "Drunks" atid "uncleana" barred. No
marks to be made or bills fixed.
(7) Na interference with lights, (8) No smoking, singing or
play
of another person'a entrance ticket.