1939-06-27 — Page 14

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should put up second-best... For

instance, I'm fond of the theatre; but, believe me, I'd rather stay away

than see an indifferent play..

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So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently.”

WHITE HORSE

Whisky

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"Never forget Clio; she has a strong sense of humour, Dzieduszycki, leader of the Polish Party in the old Austrian Reichsrat, said to me some 80 years ago. To-day I imagine the face of Clio, Muse of History, is wear- ing a broad smile as she contem- to plates the British guarantee Poland.

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Only six years ago many worthy. Britons had been persuaded ́ by German propaganda that among the "monstrosities" of which the makers of the Versailles Treaty had been guilty the Polish "Cor- ridor" was the worst. What, they asked, could be more unjust than the assignment to Poland of strip of former German territory. as an "outlet to the sea" at the cost of severing East Prussia from the German Reich and of making the Danzig a Polish-port under League of Nations? Surely, justice and peace demanded the abolition

In vain of the "Corridor." they told that the so-called "Cor- ridor" had become German only as a result of the iniquitous partition of Poland late in the 18th century, · that it had always been the Polish maritime province of Pomorze, that East Prussia had been given by Poland to a German prince as part of the dowry of a Polish princess, and that the free city of Danzig had prospered for centuries thanks to Polish trade, only to decline un- der Prussia. Herr Adolf Hitler, whose organs were furiously de- have not forgotten the words of independence nouncing "the Corridor in 1933, Frederick the Great, chief parti- Czecho-Slovaki claims upon th was obviously right and the Poles

GUTHRIE MEMORIAL ON COURSE WHER thrie, the famous T.T. rider who was killed in the Mountain Road in the Isle of Man, the place wher Photo shows a close-up of the inscription:

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be settled by were wrong. At all events Great tioner of the old Kingdom of Fo- Britain could take no responsibility land, that "whoever controls Dan- treaty which for arrangements so intolerable, zig controls Poland more truly either as a member of the Lengue of Nations or otherwise.

than the King of Poland.” So Clio On March 31, 1939, Mr. Neville is watching more than one specta- Chamberlain, the British Prime cular reversal of British policy.

For 15 years every British Goy- Minister, informed the House of Commons that pending consultation ernment refused to accept "auto- with other Governments Great Bri- matic commitments" to aid any tain would feel itself bound at once other country. In 1924 a British to lend the Polish Government all the support in its power "in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government ac- cordingly considered it`vital to re- sist with their national forces." In April this "temporary and un- ilateral assurance" was replaced by an agreement of a permanent and reciprocat character" between Great Britain and Poland,

BY WICKHAM STEED

Labour Government rejected Con this account the Geneva Draft Treaty of Mutual Assistance. In 1925, for the same reason, a Bri- If this means anything it means tish Conservative Government de that Poland is free to determine clined to ratify the Geneva Pro- whether Great Britain shall or tocol for the Pacific Settlement of shall not fight to maintain the International Disputes. Twice in "Corridor" and Polish access to 1938 the British Government re- the integrity and the sea through Danzig, The Poles fused to uphold t

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