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2 YHAD LAG JAM AMIK

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

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SORTIE FROM

THE SIEGE

OBEDIENT BUT IMPRACTICAL

The Russians are obedient but un- From this siege-warfare in the practical. They would fight incon→→ West, with its suggestion of stalemate, petently even in a good cause. The one side or both is bound to consider Germans, on the other hand, are docile the chances of an escape, as the New but efficient, and they will fight mag- Year runs on. One escape would be nificently even for evil things.

to patch up a peace. Failing that, the Such mindless obedience has its escape must be a sortie from the siege. strength, and when directed by un- Are there other fields, as yet un- scrupulous masters it can do great encumbered by fortifications on land damage to the world. But to-day it is or sea, in which a decision might be faced by the power of people who sought? If "the Germans do not have been brought up in liberty-peo- themselves irrupt into the Near East, ple who think for themselves, and might they not encourage the Russians make their choices freely, and disci- to do so? To guess is a complicated pline themselves in the causes they game, for every move will affect one or know are good.

degree. One cannot be sure what the more effective. Our Parliament has more of the greaten neutrals in some Our ways are more supple and effect on Stalin's policy will be of the proved its worth in many ways since discovery that the Red Army is not the war began, while the Reichstag noticeably Invincible. Will he grow has merely continued its hysterical cautious; or will he look for some poltroonery. Our people have shoul- fleld, in the Near or Middle East, bet- dered the burdens of war of their ter suited than the lakes and forests own free will, and they will bear them of Finland to its tactics and equip to the end because they know the road ment, designed as these were for a along which they travel.

IN THE RESULT

war movement on the featureless There may be an unknown warrior plains of Central Europe? But any in our ranks. There will never be an move that brought the Turks into the unknown slave.""Evening News.” war might have on Italian policy ef- fects difficult to foresee. If the Bal- kans are the field that first suggests itself in this connection, there is still The Empire has shown an increas- another. There is some reason to gus- ing wense, ever since the outbreak of pect that Berlin and Moscow have be- hostilities, of how deeply its interests tween them worked out a design to are involved in the result. Friendship bring the whole of Scandinavia forci- for the Mother Country was, doubt- bly within their orbit. If a Germin less, a primary motive for coming to army were to land in Southern Swes her side. But the course of the con- den, while the Russians attacked in flict had, brought it closer home daily the North, it is certain that the to each Dominion how vital the essen- Western Powers would give at once tial issue, is to itself: If Germany all the help In their power. And were to win, their reason asks them, nothing SO surely as an attack on what would be their own future post- Sweden would lessen the devotion of tion in the international. · balance? the American Middle West to a policy What chance would they have of up- of Isolation.-"New Statesman and holding their rights #painst a Power Nation."

as ruthless as it was supreme? General Smuts points out that is nation of the size of South Africa would be able to safeguard its own freedom. And, since the world's distances are diminishing daily for every practical purpose, the remotest countries would ere long be under the same shivering apprehen- sion as afflicts so many of the minor peoples of Europe. The Observer.”

THE FINNISH -SUCCESSES-

CENTRAL CONTROL

URGED

The Russian retreat on two fronts in the north of Finland has for the moment-removed the danger that the country would be cut in two and ant off from 'Swedéṁ. Only #Lew'dayi ago the threat was reat the " Firms So much for the machinery, of ra- after two reverses were retreating tioning, which is indispensable to from the Arctic coast and above the modern warfare, and will be cheerful- "waistline." Almost overnight the ly accepted as the contribution that position is reversed; but, whereas the consumers can make towards an early Finns were falling back on prepared victory. -But ratlöshing. Itself has also defences in orderly fashion, the Rus- to be considered as one of the econo- ston are-retreating Hurriedly and in mic instruments with which the war some confusion! The Time have des- is being fổiight. The main reason, as cribed the Russian, elle devam tre

troops as

putting

their heads JÓWI

́and attuaking blind

ly, and the, Rua-

slan tactics hay been on the same

PATRIOTIC DOWN TO THE FANTEES!

These slick little pantess, beau- Ime Above ritha | tifully embroidered with the "waistline" the Sor Washing on the Siegfried Line,}} viet troops, have and the "slogan, ""England" Ex- suffered heavily for pacts JC-Joomight come in the it; they were sur-

category of-improperganda,!} but as a gift for any lingerie prised on their

drawer: they're certain of ■ rap- flank and in two

turous welcome-Advt. In Bir- days fighting have | mingham Post been driven back

twenty miles and

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Mr. Morrisory ex- plained for the in- troduction of rátioning is to en- abje: our reaqurces in foreign ex- change and in ship- ping to be employ- ed wherever they can best contri- bute to the war effort. Rationing is Indication of

Do any success in, the- enemy's campaign. to starve us the col

this

a.to

clearly

more. The retreat on the Arctic front campaign, on which he is zer Is more surprising because it is as yet have founded great hopes, unexplained. **The reason, however, failing and will certainly fall. But the may be that supply could not keep institution of a rationin pace even with the moderple

of-the-Red” Army, The, on

from Leningradi to. Murr

La distant as much

the Finnish: frontier, the frontasin Finland Karelian Isthmus. serious obstaci

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