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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER

1984,

POLAND'S SPIRIT OF HIGH NATIONALISM Unsubdued After Years. Of Cruel Suppression

PLACE OF PERMANENCY

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. (your fellow-countrymen wonder

FN the ever-changing pageant of Indairs the limelight has recent

ly centred upon Poland as Europe's latest Wonderland. The cold- shouldering of the Eastern Locar- no Pact and Colonel Beck's "minorities" outburst at Geneva are the signs of a change that has suddenly made Poland a centre of world speculation.

more

After an extensive tour of the country find the Poles united thun any time in the last 15 years on n policy of semi- political and wholly spiritual Isola- tion from the rest of Europe.

"We have no intention of be roming the battle-round of the t European war." This is how a prominent offeial in the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs su med up for me Poland's foreign policy, in itself a sure reflection of the opinions of the people.,

Polish opinions is to-day more intensely nationalistic than that of. ду other European country. Everywhore in Poland I have found an epidemic of "isolationism".

My friend in the Polish Ministry described it as "absolute deter mination not to become

entangled

In a foreign alliance." And In this connection it is very notice able that opinion in Warsaw is rapidly stiffening againal French influences.

NO CATSPAW.

Poland is no longer content i be the catspaw of French states. manship. She alms to rank as me

This charming little film star in new pose. is overybody's favourite- Miss Shirley Temple.

of the Great Powers. One of in aumerable minor causes of fric tlon between the twa countries was The complaint of Poinnd that France had sold her Infering war material. The latest source of ir- ritation is the Eastern Lecanto Pact.

This does not imply. however, that intelligent Poles are not conscious of the dangerous joki- tion of their country, lying as it does between Germany and Russia. "They know very well that even if she is not the powder-box of Europe, Poland is suficiently sur zounded by dry tinder to make her fear the tiniest spark.

Hence the growing interest dis played by all classes in Polish diplomacy, and, above all, the in- creased support for the age-old polley of maintaining peace by pre- paring for war,

the friendly slap may not sudden- leontinually," I replied, "whether

is become a blow."

"If it does,"

he said tersely, "Poland will be ready,"

The recent demonstrations Warsaw and elsewhere in favour of Poland's gesture to the League fof Nations have no doubt beer. astutely engineered. But they in- dieate only too clearly the temper of the people and the strength of Marshal Pilsudski's following.

NATIONALISM'S WINDOW.

A visit to Poland, is intensely illuminating. In this newly re- erented State can be seen all the qualities and the defects nation- alisht. Among all classes in dis leven an hotel porter told me with played fierce national pride.

A touch of fine arrogance l'oland has supplied coal to Great Britalu during the General Strike.)

that

Recently there has been held the! Arst congress of Poles from all parts of the work and patriotic velebrations have taken place in Warsaw and Cracow,

At the moment Poland is the poor relation of the Great Powers, She is suffering from an inferiority complex which is sometimes man fested in an appearance of over. weening self-confidence. lier roads

are amongst the worst, in Europe and she has no money to improve then.

But inquiring the way as we motored variably told that the road was were te good in Poland but with a shake of the hind "In Lithuania It

WILL TO SUCCEED

Turkoman troops at the manoeuvres in the Kara-Kum desert in Russian Turkestan whare the camal.is Indiapan-

BAND LEADER'S LIBEL CLAIM

RESENTS CHARGE OF RACKETEERING

TERM MISUNDERSTOOD

"I am afraid that my education has not covered a study of the Justice Swift, In the King's Bench Amertean language." remarked Mr. Division, Landun, when cotinael suggested that His Lordship might hearnainted with the meaning of the word "reketeer,"

The nation is our hit it has the

Mir, St. John Field was announc will to succeed. Last year it was in the settlement of a libel action decided to mise an internal loan | Which Mr. John Wesley Vivian af £1,000,000 by rucane which close Payne, the well-known dance band ly resembled a capital lovy. The leadtra, professionally known as result was the splendid total at duck Payne, has brought against;

Mr. Len W. Hut. | £3,000,000. Yet even Is Warsaw

year, there

the people buy their elgarettes in the defendant was an instrument. Mr. St. John Fold stated that fones or twas because they canmalist in another orchestra and was afford a packet.

The sympathy and understand. also as journalist. One of his ing of all nations must go out to activities had been the contribu- Poland. She has her defects button of articles to a monthly Ameri- jske compels admiration. For a

can paper

entitled the Metronomic, rentury and a half the country country. In the November. Issue

which hal it

circulation in this been under foreign domination. During the whole of that time the of that paper. Inst Polish patriots worked to regain appeared over the defendant's their independence. They relkiled signature a series of accusations and were brutalis crushed. They a statements about Mr. Payne rebelled again. The war continued which he was bound to challenge. for them till 1921. Their country

Counsel said that he did not wish WALK ceaselessly muvaged. But to read the words, It was sufficient their spirit was never crushed." -to state that they implied that Mr. To-day Poland has a permanent Payne was a racketeering type of place on the map of Europe.

band-loader.

BEER PLENTIFUL

"Your Lordship perhaps kuowa that the American word 'racket' or 'racketeer is very unpleasant in- | deed," said counsel.

His Lordship-I Hm afraid,

sable for rider « of the sunda.

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AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES

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The Government is also consider

IMPERSONATES HIMSELF

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DETENTION

Aberdeen,

WAR

The Australian Government. An extraordinary incident at having rejected a tender for the Chertsey In August, when Mr. Australia-New Guinea seaplane.EL. Gundar Dower, managing service is now contemplating call director of Aberdeen Almenys ing for others,

(Ltd.). Dyce, alleged to have been arrested for impersonating himself and utter- Ing torged cheques in his own name in the Chertsey district; was recalled at Marylebone, London. rerently during an action against the man charged with the real Impersonation,

In the Japanese town of Kynto which recently was damaged by a arious typhoon, the world's largest

female bell is found. It is $.2 meters in height and weighs 700,000 kilos.

BUT MILK SCARCE. St. John Field, that my educa-ng a proposal to establish a civil

"GOOD LIVING" TO BE EXPENSIVE

GERMANY WARNS GOURMETS

It appeared that last April Mr. Gandar Dower lost a sultrase con- taling two cheque locks from his ear in cendilly. Later, while he was lying in the King's Cup air race, a man unknown to him was alleged to have impersonated him at the Chertsey Bridge Hotel.

In August, while dying from Newcastle, Mr. Gandar Dower booked a room in advance at the Chertsey Bridge Hotel. On arriv ing hout midnight he was met by two police sergeants and detained,

was alleged,

charge of uttering forged cheques to various firm in the district. He ex plained that he was in Aberdeen when the cheques were passed. bul it was 2 a.m. before he shtlaned the police and was released.

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the astmission of Afghanistan inth The Sixth Conumission on Sept.

the League. 26 unanimously voted in favour of

tion has not covered a study favintion base at Rabaul for a the American language.

Mr. St. John Field--I hope that would provide nerin! communien- | Government-owned service, which Your Lordship will accept the tions for a thousand islands in the tatronent from me that "raeki Bismarck archipelago, it has just tering" it H very unpleasant been announced, word Indeed. It is applied to

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the frat-fruits of Russin'e member- to accept the apology and not ship of the League--as her candi- dature has been, it la reported, en-. couraged by Turkey, assisted by. Russla

ask for daninges.

Mr. Payne, he said, was compelled to issue a writ, and the netion was for a time defended, but wiser Whatever the German may have counsel had now prevullest, and funt, said that his client realised Mr. A. T. Donning, for Me. to without this winter he will Mr. Hunt had consented to with-thit owing to a misunderstanding not have to forgo his glass of beer. | gray his defence. He hid he made the statement complained The barley necessary for beer pro- rady published an apology in the of. He now wished to withdraw duction and for other industrin! | Metronome, and his counsel would the stalement unreservedly, and to purposes can easily he secured say in open Court that Mr. Payne apologise to Mr. Jack Payne and from the total harveat of summer never witted to pake money at express his sinceve regret to him. Purley,

of the artion, and was quite va His Lordship assented.

I

for Business Research suggests that The weekly report of the Institute it is at the German people, but German cattle and poultry that will

in an exhibition now being held go short of food for the harvest nt Warsaw Polish prosperity is de of fodder crops (beets, enrrois, as picted as resting upon four pillarswell as pasturage, hay, straw, and Financial Stability, an Indepen. chuff) has been extraordinarily dent Foreign Policy. Permanent poor. Peace and Large Army. The

guardian of the four pillars in This means that there will be n Marshal Pilsudski, Poland's mill shortage of sttch animal products tary leader and virtual ruler, thus milk, cheese, and eggs. Of meat, name Poland is, governed by a on the other hand, there will be national blor, but from behind, more than enough, as the scarcity very much bebind, Pilsudski pulls of fodder will persuade farmers to the strings.

send an abnormal number of cattle to the slaughterhouse. A plentiful supply of fish la also promised.

The report Indirectly warns "good living" is

MYSTERIOUS STATESMAN,

He is almost the mystery states- man of a "thriller" novel. Seldom gourmets that seen, seldom heard, "I have only likely to be expansive, if not im- noen Marshal Pilsudaki twice in possible. "The supplies of veget the course of five years," a foreign (nbles will probably give no cause diplomat atationed in Warsaw told for unoasiness." It observes, "for me, and during that time he has resort is possible to the eruder certainly not made more than three types of vegetables (white cabbage Poland's military dient earrots), which in previous tatorsh is thus well disgalsed, years could for the most part be

it is none the legs very vend need only for fodder purposes.". and active.

There are other guarded hints of One becomes conscious here of forthcoming makeshifts distasteful Aan almost pathetic onslety to be to the gourmets. There seems to lieve in the Non-Aggression Fact.be no danger of there not bolag Before the Pact." I was told by enough food to go round in Ger an Industrialist in Upper Silesin, many during the

Germans and Poles would hurdly people will often have to put up winter. But Espeak to one another. Now they with erude and adulterated forms

alap each other on the back." But of Touil

representative, said his country Sir Dennis Bray, the Indian

application of the independent was among the first to welcome the kingdom of Afghanistan.. India re- the route universality of the jolced that another milestone Lengte hul been reached.

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