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POLAND AND RUSSIA

tend to reach out for one an- other's hands, not to support an- this other great power's aims time, but to protect their own interests.

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Opinion in Rome

The contents of any one Italian newspaper or review are a fairly sure guide to the ambitions which the Italian Government itself may hold discreetly but for whose attainment it wishes to prepare its people. The current number of "Omnibus," a weekly review which has found favour among the younger Fascist intellectuals, devotes its first two pages to politics. There are three arti- cles;

the first, on Tunis, is mild. It argues that the French protec- torate over Tunis has in no way impaired the sovereignty of the Tunisian Státe, and that, any- way, "Italy has never recognised the French protectorate over Tunis.” It is now a question

Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 24, 1939 which offers unexpected oppor- tunities to Fascist diplomacy." An article on the Suez Canal is a long quotation from the Egypt- ian Professor Sabry, who de- claims against the British hold over the canal area. The third Whatever the new Russo-Pol-writer discusses Britain's fears. of impeded ish trade agreement may mean to of aerial warfare, the economic relations of these communications in the Mediter- countries, it is still more impor-ranean, of troubles in the Far tant for its political meaning. East, all of which she never knew These new dan- For its political aspects interest in the last war. all Europe in a way that even a gers make it difficult for her to potential thirtyfold increase in aid France with a large land force trade between Russia and Poland should she be attacked by another does not.

European Power. The last para- the impression Poland's geographical position graph sums up in Europe makes that country a which the whole of the political political barometer. Long before convey:

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the handwriting on the wall Among the many terrible and spelled "Munich," Poland had fateful things which it is the lot signed a non-aggression pact of our generation to see accom- with Germany, thus becoming the plished the chance of the decline first country to retire from that of any one of the great modern ring with which France encircl-democratic Empires cannot be ed the Reich after the World War. excluded. History has seen other Not that with Poland's with- Empires even greater and more drawal the end of French hege- powerful than those of to-day. mony in Europe became inevit-Not one of them was eternal. able. That rested rather on No one will quarrel with this French and British policy than estimate of the fugitive nature jon

the policies of the smaller of temporal powers, but its states. Yet Poland, as of pression is hardly tactful in its these smaller states which must context and at a time SO soon constantly and quickly adjust after the visit of two of the lead- themselves to change, must at-ing statesmen of the greatest of tempt to forecast the political the "democratic Empires" weather. Quick to seize the op- Rome. portunity created by German pressure on Czechoslovakia, Po- The French Navy land got its slice of territory at Czech expense, seeming thus to M. Campinchi; the French side with Germany at a crucial Minister of Marine, has announc- moment.

ed a programme of naval building Poland knew which way the on a larger scale than France has wind was blowing then. War- ever before contemplated.

This saw's recent protest to Prague year 340,000 tons will be laid against an alleged movement in down or under construction, and Czechoslovakia to stir up Ukrain- in the Budget Estimates for 1939 ian national feeling indicates that more than eight milliard francs Poland knows only too well which will be set aside for the Navy. way the wind is blowing now, and The programme will include four who is blowing it. The dream battleships of 35,000 tons, of a Ukrainian republic is a Ger-aircraft-carriers of 18,000 tons, man as well as a Ukrainian and three cruisers of 8,000 tons; dream. By the building of such naval aircraft will be correspond- a state, the Third Reich could ingly accelerated, and M. Campin- dominate a rich region, and it has chi estimated that by the be- been clear that through this ginning of 1942, 300,000 tons of method Germany's leaders might this programme would have en- best make inroads into the Rus-tered the service. Italy's decision sian Ukraine. But millions of to lay down two battleships of Ukrainians live in Poland, and a 35,000 tons (the Roma and the threat to Russia in this case be Impero) made some such reply comes a threat to Poland, as well as this inevitable.There are al- as to other states where large ready two battleships 'under con- Ukrainian minorities exist. struction, the Richelieu and the Not altogether for the same Jean Bart, both of 85,000 tons, reason, but in the same direction but the two ships recently_put as the Russo-Polish: agreement, into service, the battleship Dun- Is the appointment of the pro- kergue and the battlechuiser French Grigore Gafencu as For-Strasbourg, are of 26,500 tons. eign Minister of Rumania. Ap- The recent organised campaign parently without French ́en-in' Italy against France has en-.: couragement, members of the gured support for the Govern- ring that once circled Germany "ment's programme.

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