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At Grips With Violence
Palestine the worry tale of terrorism and violence con- tinues unabated. The military situation, indeed, is well in hand and the forces on the spot are ample to prevent any fresh out- break
rebellion.
the But
countryside is still beset by guerilla bands of Arabs whose ambuscades harry the communica
of
tions, and inflict occasional losses on the British troops. This week another British soldier and sonic Jewish auxiliaries were wiped out
in a sudden raid by one of these gangs. Moreover,' since the publication of the White Paper In May outrages by Jews, hitherto rare, have become almost a dally
This sinister
Currence.
Jew
Commentator: Emrys Jones
GOYNIA
PO
RIDOR
COLISH
Danzig
TERR
Hohenstein
Jczew
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DANZIG TERRITORY
IS 46 MILES WIDE as far as from LONDON TO BEDFORD,
DANZIG-
THE
CITY OF DANZIC HAS
400,000 INHABITANTS
ELBING
EAST
MARIEN
PRUSSIA
(Ger.)
3 times a free city
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by
N. B. WHITESTONE
LADLY SHE sinks less to sap the energy of her back, weary and dauntless spirit, even though- moist from the long a fact, if fact it is, which she forcely denies-that fine phy- and strenuous day on theique now feels the passing of stifling Island; heaves a the years. sign of relief as the ricksha turns homeward.
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Sympathetically she NOW Anne is the shrewd though kindly employer of watches the puller's bulging some twenty Chinese hande; she Imuscles, his over-developed still carefully and with keenest calves; flinches at the sight insight supervises every process, of his streaming near-naked each stage in the production of torso.
to
her wares.
The outcome of her own fore- The long, hot day in the
sight, her own originality, her sweltering town has reduced own daring, resource and initia- even Anne's virile physique tive is this fine, modern, airy and 1 state of semi-inviting factory, equipped with liquifaction.
the well-kept sweetly-running Being, as she is, one of plant. his regulars, the sweating cleanliness, order all come Sugar, fruit, water, essences, coolie, undirected, deposits under the vigilance of those her at the gate of the rather quick, shrewd eyes of fading queer-looking, jumbled blue.
building which is her home From the boiling, washing, -and the scene of her most sterilizing and drying of the buttles to the mixing in the unwomanly labours.
great casks of well-scrubbed With h friendly grin, teak-all is within her province. though his lungs labour and Not one of the workers knows his body drips, he lugs from just when she will appear and
AT T last it begins to look as if canals, through the squares with the "cha" the 20-1b bag of wax inquisitive; but all know
their steep gobles and Danzig's old title of Danger facades, and around the vast mass
sugar, the little sack of with certainty that come she will, and that she will cast no Spot of Europe is to be justified, that makes the Marlakirche. golden limes, the clinking mere cursory glance at their as relations daily become more strained between Poland and from the 19th century down to our essences; dumps them upon
Here you enn study architecture bottles of brightly-coloured proceedings. Germany.
own times, for the city has preserved the ragged gravel path. bottling of the sparkling lomon-
Because of its position at the topher mediaeval characteristics,
At the grand finalo of the
of the notorious Polish Corridor Danzig i a mixture of wide, A breathless little boy of ade, soda and tonic waters, fruit separating Germany from its pro-modern streets and marrow ones with eight, pink-cheeked, round-drinks, Anne's presence is in- vince of East Prussia, peace in Dizi lorty decorated facades on the build-limbed, tawny hair in riotous evitable.
this ings. Here is the place to compare confusion, rushes up in noisy
Gothic, Renaissance, and baraque
in more than Ik iracle in troubled world.
Modest pride must thrill her Danzig queen city of the Battle, architecture, for they are almost side greeting. A tiny girl of almost being; the kind though search- bulit on the left bank of the dark by side.
identical physical appearanceling eye must gleam as the limpid waters of the River Vistula, was a
Of course, Dunzig is German. It gallops up, fearful of missing liquids gurgle into bottle flourishing town even in the tenth has its beer cellars, its enfes where century, For the hand this queen you eat cake ANTIKË drink apricot any small excitement that may orange, lemon, raspberry, pine-
No sinecure is her task; her
apple and grape.
Oh.
| eleven-hour day might well try
in that century Danes, Prussians, brandy in the ofternoon, und nine be going. Pameranians, Brandenburgers, Poles, out of ten
people there! read the "No, that bag's too heavy for: and Teutonic knights fought.
Berlin newspapers.
What is it? you, Nina! At last the Teutonic knights won,
Why, 90 per cent. of the 400,000 people in the Danzig lerrllory, are of sugar... No, not for us, for the the endurance even of a young the ping of the lath cen- German nationality. And they make drinks. Yes, you may both taste tury until 1454, when it became no secret of their greatest desire-it when It's done."" Free City under the protection of to be incorporated within Hitler's!
and the efty was in their possession
Poland.
Reich.
The Poles, taking nu chances lest
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and healthy woman working in
a temperate climáte, but to Anne
any suggestion of the idea of retirement or "taking it easy"
1
It fell to the Prussians in 1793, but) Conversation there always comes during the Napoleonic wars, from to that subject, Just as revisioniam MORE than twenty years pass-produces merely an indignant 1807 to 1814, It once more achieved | always crops up in
ed waay and those fortunate snort. any talk independence and became a separate Budapest.
children-fortunate in the fact dulcedom
When they take the off fron of having chosen their mother After Waterloo, however, Prusstu politics the again controlled the city, and it re-play at the seaside town of Zoppo purpose are now parents in their
Danzigers go away to wisely-in the course of nature's FROM that
far-off evening mained the capital of Western Prus-which in to Danzig what Brighton is
when the coolic dropped the sia until the end of the Great War.
to London. Zoppot hus a casino, turn. Then there is Anne, a bag of sugar upon the garden Then for the third time in its development renders it all the story it became à Free City when though the Danzigers have not much wiry, grey-haired, eye-glassed path and (the children safe in little-figure-of-extreme slender-bed)-when-Anne-had-concocted more imperative that the adminis-Was separated from Germany by they now to gamble with,
peacemakers Versailles.
some day they shold lose this freeness, black-clothed and lace- her soft sweet drinks in the small tration should display a relentless So, you see, the Free City has port on the Ballle, have built their fronted; her face still fresh, but back kitchen, this enterprise so energy in the pursuit and punish-rarely been free from trouble, and own part of Gdynia at the top of the deeply lined with all the cares courageously undertaken, pro-
the story is not ended yet.
Polish Corrider, and that has robbed of a bravely borne existence; spered and developed under her A pity, because Danzig is a plea-
And Danzig must depend both sides. A prime source of the sant place to wander in, along the Danzig of much of her trade.
with the responsibilities of the ever watchful and untiring care. Polish trade for her prosperity. upbringing, the education, and, Now in her own bright strong- prolonged trouble in Palestine is
Not in keeping with its beauty are sique now feels the passing of hold she still holds sway. Four the belief, unhappily fostered by
the politics of Danzig, for there four little rioting children. young children has she educat- past experience, that the Mandre
terrorism on the Nazi pattern is the law,
The years have been power-ed, tended, financed and launch- tory Power can be deflected from
ed upon the world. Truly a Life its purpose by pertinacious mani-
complaints mode by Jews and the of unending self-sacrifice, and as Opposition. festions of violence. Such
truly one with coveted compen- Britain's Mr. Eden tried to enforce sations.
ment of the mischief-makers on
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belief, once created, dies hard, and the only hope of restoring genuine peace lies in giving the most unmistakable proofs that the olt complacent tolerance of dis- order has been abandoned once and for all,
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It has often been said, with | truth, that force is no substitute for a constructive policy. But a con- structive policy now undeniably exists. It is a policy, certainly. which depends for its.success the mutual good will of the two rival races, and this good will is) now lamentably absent. But' gond | will in the necessary prerequisite of any policy whatsoever that is not to involve the permanent and forcible tutelage of the Mandatory Power, Either party which withholds it is merely perpelunting the discom- fiture of its own cause. A Jewish National Home, or an Arab ascen- dancy which has to rely for its maintenance on the perpetual sup- port of any outside Power is a negn- tion of the national aspirations of both races. Those aspirations enn-{ not be realised except by an abate- ment of the extremer claims on each site, the only alternative to which སཱ unending chaos. To resolve the deadlock by voluntary conelllation in the essence of the British Government's plan, and no matter how unpromising the im- mediate outlook may appear, it is an objective which must be pursued | with patience and Inflexible deter- mination.
-and 500 miles north
ONE of the three Baltic countries
whose independence will be guaranteed by Britain when the new Anglo-Soviet pact becomes effective Finland, a place of strange customs.
To begin with, when a man arrives in that country and goes to the hairdresser's for 11 shave, he finds himself in the expert hands of a good-looking girt bar- ber. Hardly any barbers there are
men.
This ordity is typical of Pin- Jand. For in Finland there is absolute professional equality be tween men and women. In fact, one might say the country is run by women.
There are women tram-conduc»
Jors, women crossing-sweepers.
And winen heud-waiters, to men- Don only a few examples.
AL
There is. moreover, such complete equality between men and women In Finland that it seems quite natural to the people in the provinces that men and women have the Finnish balls to: Rether.
In the country every family, no matter how rich or poor, has its own bath-house (the sauna) built uf tree-trunks.
On Saturday morning the heat- ing of the oven in the bath-house begins and in the afternoon it is ready to receive the bathers,
These bring bunches of birch- leaves And beat each other's Letic sylth them-an ancient tradition of the xauna. By throw- Ing cold water on scorchlug stones In the oven the stenta produced. Some people stay for hours in the saune, lying on the wooden benches that are built high up- under the ceiling and which one han to climb up to with a ladder. Others prefer to test only for a while. Then they walk out naked
to plute into the snow if winter or into the Jake or sen it
in nummer,
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From the time Hitlerz rose to power In Germany the Danzig Nazis sought to gain control of the city by capturing the Senate and the Volk- slug
the authority of the League there] and failed, so finally the League handed over the problem to Poland.
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In their attempt to impose a Nazi regime they were opposed by the High Commissioner, who represented the Leagues of Nailons in the city, have been in complete control, have castigated to the point of
For more than a year the Nazis HONGKONG has long been
The quarrel become so bitter that suppressed position parties, and The League had to take notice of thej delven the Jews out of the territory.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
saturation, both by those who
should know and by others whose capacities for assessment
By Lichty of our mental and physical de-
"To-morrow will bo our first anniversary, dear—according to these check stubs.”
ficiencies depend upon a few days', or possibly a few weeks" Jobservance of a very limited-
and probably not the most typi- cal-section of our much malign- ed community.
Seldom is the lip of the occasional gesture of approval which soothes the bruised, mis- treated ego, vouchsafed us.
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Those who condemn in BO comprehensive and lordly manner can never have met even: one of the many self-respecting, independent, indomitable, some- what reticent characters whose lives are spent far from the glare of revealing limelight; the orbit of the modest local Annes. Heldom impinges upon the tracks of the more easily visible and far more transient stars,
The erect little black-clad figure, standing at the big grill- ed gate, watching the egress of the dapper little blue delivery van, might appear to the rushing bench-bound crowd as a fitting object for compassion.
To those who know, Anne inspires a deep respect, an ad- * miring wonder at the initiative, courage, steadfastness and un- inching energy and uncom- plaining determination with which she has steered the course of her long and arduous passage.
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