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AN OLD-TIMER SPEAKS OF YOUTH

But, owing to the geographical configuration of the country, all a little hazy.

lie these factories necessarily Partly this is due to the fact within bombing range of Czecho- 'Thus that the name of Czecho-Slovakia Slovakia's neighbours.

the school Czecho-Slovakia is a country that never entered into curriculum of those who fought can be more readily attacked in the Great War. For 20 years than defended from the air. ago Czecho-Slovakin didn't exist. Much of her frontier is moun- In the intervening years pro- tainous. Flying from Berlin to bably relatively few Britons Munich I have looked down on have visited Czecho-Slovakia. the Bohemian mountain tops the cloud- Thus many people find that part sticking up above of Europe rather difficult to filled valleys. visualise accurately.

I have flown over the frontier Yet to-day it is the focal point between Nuremberg and Prague of world atlairs. For the me- and seen the hills through gaps ment Spain and China are over in the clouds over which I had shadowed in the headliner by to fly to clear the mountains.

The the claim of Czecho-Slovakia.

whate of her northern, western, and eastern frontiera

Moreover, a childish mind al- are mountainous and naturally

There is ways tends to confuse vigour casily defensible against ground Les rationa for be held The | head in more senses than one Jabong Room

much talk of the Promise of and activity with pushing and The Hong-

attack.

Action of this nature, lies in the west, in line with

much admiration Along the horder it is reported

for bumping. Youth, Copenhagen amd Venice, Ita

that there are Concrete

impatience with out-being obvious, can be understood pili Youth's tail, some 670 miles to the east, boxes with machine-guns and worn error.

But ill-judged and without mental effort, and if a is level with Helsinki and ('rete.

pompous as have been some of political creed can make such anti-tank guns. In its widest parts it is about

Czecho-Slovakia is boli in- the admonitions Maturity has action appear noble and glorious, 180 miles across, but its average dustrial and agricultural.

Tim-addressed to Youth, there are it is certain of an enthusiastic width is nearer 80 to 100 miles, her is a considerable factor in my inescapable facts in ovi- reception from the youthful part

of the country, Czecho-Slovakia and Russia da her economies; about a third offence all around that might, on not adjoin. The extreme tail of her total area is forest land.consideration, rather modify this

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This long, narrow country lies, furnals will be welcome at the roughly, east and west. Its

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frontier.

Between

territories of Poland and mania.

EPO converted

is fashionable at the moment Mrs. Grundy to speak in glowing terms of youth as a beneficently hopeful and redeeming force.

exuberant belief in Youth.

ex-

Then the old-timer will

the eastern province of Ruthenia Clay and sand

plain that it Alls him with grim amusement to observe the lies some 100 miles from the into china and glass. Who does For example, an elderly man nearest point the Soviet not know the Czecho-Slovakian who remembers the reverberat- younger generation falling so completely under the spell of Czecho- glassware? She is rich in othering days of Gladstone is not

that

with Mrs. Grundyism Slovakia and the Soviet lie the minerals, producing iron, gra- necessarily complete "back

which they announce they have Ru- phite, lead, coal, silver, gold, and number." He bas possibly re-

no sympathy or patience. The flected more than a little in the whole cult of Mrs. Grundyism It was the incorporation of Small wonder. then, that the course of his life, and he has depends for perpetuation on the Austria into the Greater Reich Skoda works rank among

listened to the lunch-hour con- stimulating the that brought the problem of largest

manufacturing Czecho-Slovakin to the forefront organisations in Europe. of world affairs, because Ger- many's claim to safeguard the interests of the Sudeten Ger-

REFUGEE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED The refugee emergency has 11020 yet passed in Hongkong, and although the Government's mans was strengthened by the figures issued regarding the Anschluss with Austria, probable increases in population

are

radium.

arms

Fortified BUT Pilsen, where it was situated, lies only 40 miles from the German fron- The western end of Czecho- tier, and no in recent times Skoda

Prague is but 180 miles south exal of Berlin. About 175 miles The to the south-east lies Vienna. of the city of Prague is now like that of a nut between pincers.

situation

Within Range THE men who worked most for the creation

hour

matter with

every

Fascist propaganda is directed

Benso of moral versations of several generations of workmales. He

superiority it can give to its has much and heard much, and may of inflicting suffering appear as seen votarles by making a mean love be able to put forward obsera glowing and righteous thing. vations that Youth would find hard to answer and harder still primarily to the purpose of in- to endure.

culcating an attitude of resent- Lunch

conversation ful superiority. How wonder- up to early June are reassuring. | Slovakia-composed entirely of decentralisation of the

workmen, he will tell ful we are! What a marvellous among the problem is by no

you, is not what it wasS, means the previous Austrian provinces plant has been carried out to

and race is ours! Of what things we solved. Government will have of Bohemia and Moravia-cuts provide

banal though this for greater security sounds, he is rendy enough to catches at this creed eagerly and opening are capable! Perfervid youth it that the netual increase of a great wedge into the territory from air attacks. population, has not been any of Greater Germany.

support his contention. He will dreams that it has discovered a The importance of these thing like commensurate with

works can be gauged from the literature workmen read in the

suggest that one compare the new path to freedom. the estimated total of arriving

fact that locomotive manufac- last century and he might even "It Isn't Politics" refugees. Apparently many thousands of these people have

turers all over the world are be display some examples of this coming increasingly concerned literature, solid, rather stifling| gone elsewhere,

Then disturbing facts are en- Exactly how

at the way in which the cream rending many thousands have remained,

countered. The enticing path of however, it is impossible to say.

of the orders in this trade has square inch of space catering for emotional stimulation leads to Probably a good many.

iately been taken by the Skoda what must have been a most The

malodorous swamps and tangled authorities

works. alive to the

thickets. An explanation must It has been stated that Czecho- tion-with the "crime thriller" one must be found to fill the role

strenuous demand for informa- dangers uttaching to such an

be procured. Of course, some- influx, there is no doubt.

Slovakia has spent £80,000,000 and the Wild West romances There are two methods of deal of Czecho-Slovakia the late Preai un fortifying her frontier with that are devoured so eagerly to of the villain of the piece. To ing with this surplus population dent, Dr. Masaryk, and his suc- Germany, and each of the moun-day.

give the whole intoxicating con- -und the additional surplus cessor, Dr. Benes, were doubt- tain passes is heavily defended.

ception of superior, all-conquer- which will come £144 soon 29 less aware of Czecho-Slovakia's Close behind the frontier new Sport Monopoly

ing Youth a semblance of logl- Japanese activities are extended fundamental geographical weak- airports have been built.

cal coherence, some myth of an In South China, as so frequently ness, and for that reason they

But the southern part of the Politics, religion, and Bome evil, malicious power, bringing threatened. One scheme is to built up an Army and Air country does not possess a solid aspects of Trade Unionism, frustration and disaster on the natural frontier as in the west, he will explain, were common efforts of the virtuous, must be | destitute, and to charge a trivial

north, and east,

topics once, whereas to-day | brought into being, amount to those who have

Between Prague and the Aus-nothing stands much chance It is no mere chance that has funds. It was considered by | homes unless they are forced to trian frontier in the direction of with the interminable talk on made Fascists the inveterate foes social workers at one stage that by circumstances, There are Vienna the country slopes racing and football coupons. of the Jews. Some focus point big camps should be established already restrictions to keep out gradually up and

then down. Then the elderly gentleman, for the necessary element of re- in the New Territories for these of the Colony the wholly im-Farther cast the frontier follows warming to his theme, will pour sontment, this hatred which can people. That suggestion ori- pecunious. Therefore it does the Danube. Away to the south-scorn on the shallowness of poli-be a solvent for any possible ginated with this newspaper. not seem that refugee camps cast it runs over part of the tical knowledge to-day, and will doubts of the might and wonder And it is still a sound one, at which incidentally might ac- Hungarian Plain, until it reaches tell of the deep interest in Glad- of Youth, must be found. Never though those who have subse-commodate some of the litter of the folds and ridges of the Car- stone's time that led men to mind the clear and reiterated quently sponsored it have not hawkers-would bring any more pathian Mountains, where the stand in queue to pay to hear the lessons of history. Never mind adapted it in its entirety. The people here than would ordinari-province of Ruthenia ends. foremost political figures of the the unmistakable facts of poli- alternative is to bring all rely sock British Hoil for Here, then, is the problem of time,

tical wisdom. Never mind the

house and feed and clothe the

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fugees into our very midst. It sanctuary in emergency. If it Czecho-Slovakia. Her hend lies. But it is when he gets to the dictates of commonsenact Here is not advocated that there were found that the influx was between the jaws of Germany subject of Fascism that he be-are a set of people easily dis- should be free camps, although unmanageable, it could always and Austria. Within the ter comes really interesting. Fastinguished by features and com- it le not proposed to make be checked.

ritory enclosed by those jaws cism he will diagnose as essen-plexion; here is the voice of au- charge upon destitutes, either. It can be argued that Rather it is suggested that such fugees are going to come into Sudeten Germans.

relive the three and a half million tially a maludy of juvenile minds. thority decrying them as degrad- people enter the camps Hongkong in any event. At

In his younger days, when there cd wretches whose machinations For about 80 miles the borders was less talk of the merits of cause all the ills of the world. should earn their own living, as some point the last Inch of far as possible; and the able tenement space is going to be of Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia youth, men would have laughed Yes, the ils we suffer from are bodied might even be put to filled. It does seem that before join. Elsewhere the country is uproariously at the very idea of considerable, but how great must work upon such local improve that unhappy time arrives some cut off by the frontiers of Gerdonning shirts of a certain be the guilt of those who plan ments as are thought useful by preparation might be made in many, Austria, Hungary, and colour to give expression to

Two hundred miles their political opinions. the authorities. It is not the the way of temporary sheltera Poland. idea to create a haven of refuge at a distance from the urban of German territory separato Perhaps also he will go on to and ease to which thousands of areas, where refugees could be France and Czecho-Slovakia at demonstrate that the whole doc people would flock from China, received and controlled, and re- the nearest point. Iussia and trine springs from a subsoil of It appears to be the fear of leased if they had friends or Czecho-Slovakia are parted by callow mentality. He will illug- authority that the establish- funds which allowed of in-100 miles, which include thetrate the significance of the pre- these wretches, the Jews. ment of such camps would have dependence. In advocating auch Carpathian Mountains.

valling anti-Semitism of Fasciste that effect: that the attraction steps it is not meant to plead Czecho-Slovakia, born of the by remarking that everyone would be sufficient to bring in the case of the refugee particu- Peace Treaties, before oven it knows how delighted a malicious countless refugees, even from larly, but rather for considera- has come of age, has, perhaps child will become if he can for- communities which wore not tion for those who make their more than any other interna- get his own restrictions and directly threatened by the hos-permanent home here and whose tional factor, brought Europe miseries in the chance of abun tilities. Chinese, however, do health it Ja the

of back to the old diplomacy of ing some other hapless young duty not generally abandon their authority to unfeguard.

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And with the charm of this magnifl- cent pleve of logie the mind of Youth burns ecstatically, Youth's sense of superiority receives a new impetus; clearly it now has an exalted duty to perform in working of its coltish energy in abusing and calumniating

"No," says the old-timer, "It is simple, direct, vigorous, and specta- cular; but, believe me, It Isn't polles!"

Indeed, though Youth may be clamouring jusi now at the centre of the singe, Maturity, silting back bo- dazzled nor decolved. yond the foot-lights, in neither

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