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Lion and The Lambs

OLONEL BECK'S speech on

COLO

Friday has dispelled the con- fusion about the precise under- standing regarding Danzig. It means, in effect, that if Germany attempts to employ in the Free City the methods that gained her possession of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and Memelland, Poland will reaist with all the forces at her disposal. Bo it remembered that the forces at Poland's diepo- sal now includes Great Britain and France.

So far so good. At the same

time the hope of everybody re- mains that the Germans and the Poles will settle their differences Amicably.

I S THIS THE PICTURE OFA THE YEAR 1

RUSSIA

does not want

WAR

HERE are long queues at every street corner in Moscow. It is not bread people are waiting for-it is news.

The latest edition of the evening paper will soon be out. Russians. want to know what is happening in Germany and Poland.

Every one feels that war may be precipitated for substantially postponed according to the out- come of the present moves in these two countries.

Russia does not want war. It is prepared to It can be done. No hint of defiant aggression lay behind the make almost any concession in order to maintain Polish Foreign Minister's defenco peace. But war is believed inevitable and pre- of Anglo-Polish policy, and his parations are being made accordingly. attitude throughout has been one

of rectitude and repression.

It is inconceivable that anyone estimate on national defence. wants to go to war either on the

IN 1936 the Soviet Government spent more than three times its Budget It budgeted for an issue of Danzig or

the Polish expenditure of 1,665,000,000 roubles. Corridor, and there is no reason It spent more than 5,000,000,000 roubles-- why discussions should not take that is about £100,000,000. At the same time a place between Berlin and Warsaw great campaign was begun to rouse the Russian which might result in settlement people to the need of still greater expenditure. of the trouble without negotiation.

Poland, as Colonel Beck has

They were

warned that Japan was spending

| revealed, is not intransigently 46.5 per cent. of its Budget on armaments, while opposed to any form of negotin Russia spent only 10 per cent. Since then the tion. On the contrary, the tradi- (military estimates have again been doubled. tion of Polish foreign policy and the outlook disclosed by Colonel Beck suggest that they will always keep the door open for conciliation.

The key to the entire situation, as wo ace it, is Russia. The vital

include the cost of civil aviation. They do not These figures menn very little. They do not

include the construction of tractors that can be transformed into tanks.

They do not include the doub- and, it may be, decisive part offered to skilled engineers as an ling and trebling of wages Russian co-operation must play in inducement to migrate with any effective attempt to solve their families to the danger Europe's problem is obvious.

zones in the cast and south.

"Russia is prepared to make almost any concession for peace. . But..... propagations are being made.

The tractor “drivers are given special training with military servica in viaw.”

It is the outward and visible sign that I am a crack shot with a rifle. Considering that any time I play darts I am as liable as not to miss even the board, I feel a bit unworthy. But it was presented to me in deadly scri- ousness by a group of students in Gorlovaka Mining College, Don Bas.

As I was preparing to leave, the students marched into the hall in military formation and carried out this

little ceremony. To Russian. youngsters these are no mattera for jesting. They are learn- ing to shoot, not for the fun ‘of it, but because they believe that some day soon Russia may be drawn into war.

1. n the countryside this feverish preoc- cupation with military matters is as strong as in the citics. Every collective farm has its sports organisa-- tion, responsible for drilling the peasants..

On Russia's large farins tractors are uni- versally in use. The newest trac- tora are conver- tible into tanks. The tractor drivers are given special training with military service in view.

Every trac- tor driver ig regarded as potential

a

tank

and tank driver.

Soviet nuthorities frankly ad- Even the children have caught mit that here is the most vulner- the infection. I watched a able side of Russia's defences, group of them listening to a Stalin, in an address to students radio speech. Afterwards there in a military academy put the was much excited discussion. position baldly and forcibly! They had been set a problem.in They include only part of the

With skilled technicians in military-strategy and invited to by the British Government, which cost of building entire new cities

suficfent numbers, Russia is in- send in their answers. and initiativo vincible. Without them we are along the eastern frontiers with technical skill "is doing everything in its power the strengthening of national possessed by its people ranks lame on both feat."

On a given date the correct. solution was to be announced. defence as their main raison- very high. d'etre.

There have been specific assur ances that this fact is appreciated

Rusala, Hillez la consolidating his position in the north and in the

THE German

soldier

to foster it."

But the quotation was made

It is on this question that Russia is nearly a month ago. Actions are

now concentrating. THE other day a Derby- more credible witnesses than words, the military strength of Russia The only way of estimating

The Government is straining

ehire girl decided to against whom they every nerve to develop a popula- train 48 a parachutist. This Unfortunately, there is evidence or any other country is to take may have to measure their tion with a high degree of was so unusual as to be reported that the contacts between Britain stock of its entire resources. tific killer. Among Germans nation, soldier and civilian alike, In Russia such sports, requiring strength is a deadly and scien- technical efficiency. The entire in the English Press ng "news." and Russia have not been as close Russia is well aware of that. or as frequent as they should be.

there is a surfeit of skilled is in training. It also knows that among a

a high degree of daring and In- While Britain dilly-dallies with nation's resources the degree of chemists and technicians. In

In Russia there is no sense of itintive, have long ceased to be a 1914-18 the Germans killed three

novelty. of the Allied soldiers for every The one merges into the other. will see thousands of people in a sharp division between the two. south. The military alliance with her, she won't attack them. These two of their own men who fell. The army is associated with a

Any day in the summer you Italy, announced this morning, is a States, in signing agreements on powerful weapon that will finally this basis with the Reich, cannot planning with all that in mind. organisations covering

Russia's High Command is network of semi-military aports the city parks, parachute jump- ing from specially constructed decide on which side Yugo-Slavia's fall to recall with some trepidation The Red Army has

that similar assurances were given

been school, farm, and factory in the towers. This is the preliminary brend is buttered. She has wavered regarding Austria and

modernised and land. Czecho- thoroughly

part of their training. since the annexation of Albania; she Slovakin.

mechanised. The most advanced

Two of the chambermaids in must now join the axis camp in The German Hon asks the lambs models obtainable anywhere in

to llo down by its side. The dif-the world have been purchased.

MILITARY training is my hotel in Moscow were quali- sheer solf-preservation.

compulsory in all fied

parachutists. A young Meanwhile, Germany concludes culty for the lambs is that they unilateral

There is only one doubtful Russian colleges. The students waitress in a restaurant I some non-aggression pacta cannot be sure whether the lion point. Having been given the the women as well as men- times ate in was impatiently with the Baltic and Scandinavian means them to lls down by its aide technical equipment, does the usually compete for the Voro- waiting to take her final

or inside it. The unhappy experience States. She promises them indivi-of some of Germany's neighbours Red Army soldier know how to shiloy markainan's badge. I examinations. dually that if they won't attack sugreate the latter.

mako the best. of it?

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