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EARD OF LONDON?

to work in single com- will stiffen necessary, already at erranean..

any serious

resources, must be de- first essen- the League hall opera- aggressor), should be ndertakings or the com-

ation likely the contrary likely to de-

war if the that within hext aggres-

from 9,000, 00 Russian ing towards aces of the ) 50 motor-

h, at least, ake the road daily rate. ar is uncer-

be called in and to what

the rate we

cess of attrition by blockade nce Prague

March, will would begin to work against the cision what- aggressor from the first days, een London.

But the easy route for a Ger- man attack, when Hitler decides to fight for more "living space," irresolution, does not lie through Poland: the tainty, any Poles have a big, though poorly- ving that his equipped army. The easy way is

like

clock through the Baltic States, which command, could do little to bar the road to robably with the combined operations of the Germany army, air force, and fleet. proposed, But they have not been guaran- multaneously teed. Nor is it likely that they would t, a military accept a guarantee from Russia drawn up.

alone, since this would at once expose them, in their weakness, to German hostility.

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alliance is a bious expres- erhaps, and

on which the

But if a firmly-knit coalition of the three Greater Powers were

Air

A.R.P. IN THE MILLS. raid tests form part of the week- ly programme at an Oldham mill, where the operatives wearing gas masks as they work at their looms present one of the most unusual sights in the whole field of · A.R.P. In addition to giving the girls practice in wearing gas-masks, tests are carried out to see how quickly the mill, the Maple Mills, at Hathershaw, Oldham, can be evacuated.

dom to cherish and their homes to protect.

Litvinov may have resigned, but his principle that "peace is in- divisible" survives him.

IF LONDON IS BOMBED

The patience with which

in

first constituted, with Poland also these days of peril we all endure Chamberlain's delays does as a partner, is there much doubt Mr. that little Lithuania, Latvia, Es- credit rather to the goodness of thonia, and Finland would be glad our hearts than to our judgment. ing negotia- to take shelter under its guaran- Mr. Chamberlain, who lost Spain er the Baltic tee, as they did under that of the and Czechoslovakia to the com- ncluded. No League?

mon cause, may blunder out of this Russian alliance also. age to Russia mania should e West. the slow pro-

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It is not clear why Downing Street should limit its solicitude -to Poles and Rumanians. These little States also have their free

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For Moscow, two conditions are essential. The Pact must take con- crete shape at once in a military convention, and it must include the Baltic States. Lord Halifax may advance it when he meets M. Potemkin at Geneva, but it will not be a reality until Lord Gort and General Gamelin fly to Mos- cow to work it out with Marshal Voreshilov's staff.

The Russians have put their questions to Mr. Chamberlain. Let us not forget to put ours.

His solicitude for the safety of the Poles may be an admirable trait in his character. It is noble on his part to shelter Danzig. But has he ever heard of a place call- ed London?

The Red Army offers to be march, if London should bombed. Why does Mr. Cham- berlain reject its services? Gas bites and thermite scorches the..shores of the Thames as as on those of the Vistula,

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