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Lion and The Lambs

COLONEL BECK'S speech on

Friday has dispelled the con- fusion about the precise under- standing regarding Danzig. It meana, in effect, that if Germany attempts to employ in the Free City the methods that gained her possession of Austria, Czecho- Stovukin and Memelland, Poland will resist with all the forces at her disposal. Be it remembered that the forces at Poland'a dispo- 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.

It can be done. No hint of

defiant aggression lay behind the Pulish Foreign Minister's defence of Anglo-Polish policy, and his attitude. throughout. has been one. of rectitude and repression,

IS THIS THE PICTURE OF THE

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.

Russin does not want war. It is prepared to make almost any concession in order to maintain peace. But war is believed inevitable and pre- parations are being made accordingly

IN 1986 the Soviet Government spent estimate on national defence. It budgeted for an more than three times its Budget

expenditure of 1,665,000,000 roubles.

It is inconceivable that anyone wals to go to war either on the issue of Danzig or the Polish 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 revented, 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 include the cost of civil aviation. They do not These figures mean very little. They do not Beck suggest that they will include the construction of tractors that can be always keep the door open for conciliation.

The key to the entire situation,

transformed into tanks.

They do not include the doub

as we see it, is Russia. The vitalling and trebling of wages and, it may be, decisive part offered to skilled engineers as an Russian co-operation must play in inducement any effective attempt to solve their families to the danger migrate with

Europe's problem is obvious.

zones in the east and south.

There have been specific assur-

to

"Russia is prepared to make almost any concession for peace.

But

preparations are being made

The tractor drivers are given special training with military service in view."

YEAR?

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 seri- 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 matters 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. the In countryside this feverish

preoc- cupation with military matters. is as strong as in the cities, Every collective form has Its sports organisa- tion, responsible for drilling the peasants.

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

Every trac- tor driver is regarded as 籍 potential tank and tank driver.

Soviet authorities 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 baidly and forcibly: They had been set a problem in With skilled technicians in military strategy and invited to sufficient numbers, Russia is in- send in their answers. vincible. Without them we are On a given date the correct

solution was to be announced. ranks lame on both feat."

It is on this question that Russia is now concentrating. The Government is straining every nerve to develop a popula-

ances that this fact is appreciated They include only part of the by the British Government, which cost of building entire new cities "is doing everything in its power along the eastern frontiers with technical skill and initiative

the strengthening of national possessed by its people defence as their main raison- very high. d'etra.

to foster it."

But the quotation was made early a month ago.

Actions nre

The only way of estimating THE German more credible witnesses than words, the military strength of Russia

soldier thoy

Unfortunately, there is evidence or any other country is to take may have to measuro their tion with

that the contacts between Britain stock of its entire

or as frequent as they should be.

While Britain dilly-dallies with Russia, Hitler is consolidating his position in the north and in the

resources.

THE other day a Derby- shire girl decided to train na

a parachutist.' 'This

against whom

4 high degree of was so unusual as to be reported strength is a deadly and scien- technical efficiency. The entire in the English Press as "news." and Russia have not been as close Russia is well aware of that. tifle killer. Among Germans

there is a surfeit of skilled is in training.

nation, soldier and civilian alike, In Russia such sports, requiring It also knows that among a

high degree of daring and in- nation's resources the degree of

chemists and technicians. In In Russia there is no sense of itiative, have long ceased to be a 1914-18 the Germans killed three

a sharp division between the two.

novelty. of the Allied soldiers for every The one merges into the other will see thousands of people in 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 the city parks, parachute jump- Any day in the summer you.

Italy, announced this morning, la a States, in signing agreements on Russia's High Command is network of semi-military sports powerful weapon that will finally this basis with the Reich, cannot planning with all that in mind. organisations covering every ing from specially constructed decide on which side Yugo-Slavin's that similar assurances were given

fall to recall with some trepidation The Red Army has been school, farm, and factory in the towers. This is the preliminary bread is buttered. She has wavered regarding Austria and Czecho- thoroughly modernised and land.

part of their training. since the annexation of Albania; she Slavakia,

[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 shear solf-preservation.

to lie down by its side. The difjtho world have been purchased.

MILITARY training is my hotel in Moscow were quali- compulsory in all fled parachutists. A young Meanwhile, Germany concludes ficulty for the lamba is that they

There is only one doubtful Russian colleges. The students waitress in a restaurant I some- unitäteral

cannot be sure whether the Hon non-aggression, pâcta with the Baltic and Scandinavian means them to lie down by the side point. Having been given the the women: as well as men times ate in was impatiently

or inside it. The unhappy experience technical equipment, does the usually compete for the Voro waiting to take her final; States. She promises then indivi-of some of Germany's neighbours Red Army soldier know how to shilov marksman's badge. I examinations. dually that if they won't attack suggests the latter.

make the best of it?

have one of those myself...

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