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POLAND NEXT?

Government by decree has |been accepted by the French, as it might be by the British, or by Americans in perhaps a different measure. It degree, as a war becomes acceptable. because it is a temporary abridgment of liberty where the alternative to temporary abridgment threatens to be permanent loss of freedom. Dictatorial powerɛ given to a government under such circums→ tances are "for duration" only. The determination of a people, which is expressed by such dras- tio sacrifice, to maintain its free- dom against external encroach- ment, is a determination with which no government can well afford to temporise. The nation in such a situation has its' mind Though Poland was the first of not on clearing up economic dif- the Central European Powers to ficulties at the price of some of withdraw from France's post-its liberties, as seems Versailles ring around Germany, been the intention in Germany, by signing a ten-yedr non- but on making all its liberties aggression pact with the Ger- secure from the most immediate mans in 1934, Poles have never threat to them. entertained any illusions about The very intensity in behalf of their position. Their efforts to freedom which is thus engendered. continue good relations with cannot be lightly disregarded Russia and France as well as when the emergency has passed. Germany illustrate Polish real-The United States' war effort in ism.

1917 well illustrates this fact. Events justify that

The planning necessary for effec- When Hitler crossed racial bortive American participation in ders

to absorb Bohemia and the World War involved assump- Moravia and to put Slovakia at tion of powers by the Government German disposal, best-informed and its agencies which were often. circles were saying that the next of doubtful legal character. Yet. chapter of National Socialist the Americans did not perman- history probably would be writ-ently adopt dictatorship. Nor ten on the Polish frontier. Herr did Great Britain. Hitler's sudden move to reincor- The attitude which brought. porate Memel into the Reich sup- totalitarianism in the wake of ported this opinion.

Dr. Bruening's decrees was clear-

concern.

to have

Those familiar with the pre-ly one which regarded democracy ludes of calm before the storm-as unsuitable to German needs, ing, can read between the lines which regarded it as a source of of Saturday inspired message German weakness and an obstacle: issued in Berlin and dated from to German prosperity. In France, Rome which was nothing if not as in the United States and Great a plain threat.

Britain, democracy is known to -Charges of Polish violence be a source of strength, a means. against Germany, similar to as irreproachable as the ends it. those which preceded other seeks, and a guarantee of na- While this coups, continue to be made in the tional well-being. controlled press of the Third difference of attitude exists Reich although even German between French and Germans, newspapers in Poland report no democracy will be safer under de- such violence. But Poland has cree on one side of the Rhine: long been preparing itself for than it was under a Parliament. crises on

either or both of its on the other. eastern and western borders.

Because of the exposed nature The Scarecrow of these borders. Polish military

as.

authorities have always emphas- It has been noted recently in ised the need of strong and effi- "The Times," that the scarecrow: cient organisation for defence. is fast disappearing from the Many who doubted whether the English countryside. It is a fact. Czechs would fight if pressed by that one learns with a tinge of Germany yet hold the opinion regret. He has always been an that the Poles will. If this opin-arresting sight, ludicrous, yet. ion thoroughly permeates in Ber with an aloofness, a touch of lin, the prediction "Poland next" fantastic dignity, that would per- may yet be found mistaken. The suade one that he is pathetic strategy of bloodless conquest re- bewitched from his humanity by quires its followers to prod the a spell that deceives all save the line of its intended victim's re- birds. So that the imagination sistance to find the soft spots. finds it easy he has claimed to grant him such The Poles have long promised moments a themselves that Poland will not through the poet: be one of these.. Yet as Germany

But when that child, called presses on Poland from the

Spring, and all north-west and the south the question mark rows.

Democracy And Decree

In France

Though the similarity between the regime of Dr. Bruening in pre-Nazi Germany and that of Premier Daladier in France to- day. striking, it does not fol- low that the French people have waved Adieu" to democracy Dr. Bruening's decrees are sidered to have paved the for the totalitarian-state. many.' Will Premier. Daladle fasten dictatorship on Fran

surmise no

His host of children, come Scatterisg their buds and dew

upon

These acres of my home,

rags Some rapture in my

awakes;

I lift vold eyes and scan The skies for crows, those

ravening foes,

Of my strange master, Man.

It would seem, however, that the birds have come to disregard

Possibly they have dia vered that they

ere in-