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Russia and Poland THE bankruptcy of morality in international relations is no better emphasised than in the shocking reversal of policy by

Soviet Russia.

By all standards of interna- tional good faith it would seem inconceivable that Russia, pro- fessing hatred of all nggressors and herself bound by Pact of Non-Aggression to

State

violated by the Soviet's natural. enemy, should directly aid in the spoilation and dismemberment of an unhappy victim of aggres- sion.

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The Soviet Pact of Non- Aggression with Nazi Germany was undoubtedly a direct incen- tive to Hitler to march into Poland. But an even bigger betrayal of peace and of Euro- pean freedom is provided by the action of Soviet troops in march ing into Poland for the express purpose of joining in its dis.

memberment.

Last week Finland's Army held its most ambitious manoeuvres; but only 20,000 men took part.

Finland is still a corner of Europe

WHERE THERE IS PEACE

placing Swedish in the univer- sities, literature and normal fre tercourse of the country. The names of the towns have been changed-Helsingfors to Helsin- ki, Tammerfors to Tampere, Abo, the former capital to Turku, and Finland itself to Suomi, surely the most melodi- ous name any country could have.

☆ FINLAND, though

in

arca seventh in

Europe, has a- population of only 3,700,000, about half that

produced a relatively large pro-

THE youngest Finnish bility, is growing by leaps and of Greater London. Yet it has

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soldier killed in that bounds. war was 12 years old. Finns

On the score of commerce the portion of outstanding are reluctant to accept a guaran- Finns have one big bone to pick Sibelius, probably the greatest Lee of their territory by a recent with us. Britain, they feel, is a living musician, tops the list, enemy against a Power with little too apt to ignore the possi- but in art, architecture and bilitics of n relatively small forestry there are. Finns who whom they have no quarrel and market. Far more British goods cannot be ignored, whom they feel to be at a safe could bo sold to them if our In an age when architecture distance. Here is one stumbling manufacturers would show a has shown little advance on the block (despite a firm bolief in greater disposition to consider past, save in the use of plastic Finland that Britain will not the special needs of the country, concreto and glass, Finland has permit any sucrifice of Finnish Finland, in fact, suffers (in its found two new ways of expres- independence merely to obtain own view) from being too little sing beauty in building-that of ♫ Soviet alliance) on which the known abroad, especially in Saarinen, to whom many of the Britain, Far too many people, most striking buildings in Hel- negotiators of Moscow have

my Finnish friends tell me, are sinki are due, and of Alvar fallen continually in recent still uncertain whether Finland Aalto, whose library at Vilpuri

is a Baltic or a Balkan country, and the house he has just com Even then it is not generally pleted for Mr. Harry Gullichsent Finland hopes that a

realised that English is taught at Noormarkhu are supreme will be found round this obstacle,

as a third language (the others examples of what can be done for while her eastern frontier is being Finnish and Swedish) in

with lighting, varied use of kept manned and ready night every Finnish school and that it wood and asymmetry of design. In sculpture, particularly in and day, Britain is her best is probably the cheapest country customer for wood pulp, paper in Eurpoe to travel in or live in. anite, the sensitive work of and agricultural produce. Fin- If I were asked to name the in his studio outside Helsinki, Vaino Aaltonen, whom I visited land's trade with Britain, indeed. one factor that makes Finland deserves to be much more wide- is larger than Australia's.

different from every other Jy known.

weeks.

But it is not much in its in-

That one source of nervous- country I have visited and is the nes, apart, Finland to-day pre- key to much of the physical dividual great men that the sents a pleture of calm, confi- fitness, mental alertness and claim of Finland to be regarded dent prosperity all too rare else spiritual balance which gives as a cultivated and civilised the inhabitants their air of country mainly rests. It is in

where. The general election a

few weeks ago produced little healthy contentment I should the universally high standard change (apart from the loss say at once the Finnish bath.

of appreciation of fine things, by the ultra-nationalists, or From the earliest times Finns the importance everywhere nt- local "fascists," of half have been accustomed to steam tached to education and the in- their tiny percentage of themselves at least once a satiable will of the Finns to seats) and has left the week into a parboiled pinkness learn. The largest bookshop in existing Social Democrat in a smoke-blackened wooden Europe is in Helsinki.

and agrarian coalition hut, throwing ladies of water on

firmly in the saddle,

TRADE figures are good,

to hot stones to raise the tem- perature until every impurity is boiled out of their systems,

IN every big town I visit- ed almost the first thing finally jumping into the nearest shown me was a new school, a lake for a swim or, in winter, new hospital or a new library. New markets for rolling in the snow.

Cinemas, by contrast, seemed and

are pulp

This ceremony, which is called lacking, and there is every- being found in South "sauna," produces a feeling of where an emphasis on work America. New enter- fitness and mental and physical rather than on pleasure. Pos-

paper

This is the 250ft. high Marathon Tower bullt at Helsinki for next year's Olympic Games.

By Denis Weaver

contentment which must be ex- sibly in Finland they are more perienced to be believed. No nearly the same thing than in

There is one respect in which N the quiet lanes off the prises, such as the manufacture one knows how the custom most countries.

of ohcap glass-ware (to replace originated, but it is the oldest main road of European the lost supplies from Czecho- and most Finnish thing in Fin- Finas are second to none, though land, except the Finnish langu- they may be equalled. That is power politics there are slovakia), are springing up. still countries where the Fisheries are being developed age and the universal love of in hospitality, a hospitality of the heart that finds expression. liberty.

Little by little the magnifi- In natural courtesy and tolera- rumble of gun-carriages is and modern types of trawlers and and drifters are being introduced

cent, musical language of the tion, qualities of which some heard only faintly

Finns, which bears no resem- nations nearer the high road of where men and women can to aid this growing industry.

Even tourist traffic, despite blance to any other except, very world affairs could learn much devote their energies to the

Finland's apparent inaccess!- faintly, the Hungarian, is re- from Finland. Soviet Russia has solemnly normal business of living. signed Pacts of Non-Aggression

Such countries deserve atten-| with Afghanistan, China, Fin- tion to-day if only because the land, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, flame of civilisation may still be burning in them when it Poland and Italy. So far from has been snuffed out by con- casing the passage of an aggres-flict in places more "on the map.” sor, these pacts specifically laid Finland is ΟΠΟ of these. Geographically far distant from

it down that the agreements the storm centres, politically a could be denounced only in the firm democracy and culturally in the front rank of civilised com- event of one of the contracting munities, this land of lakes, parties committing an act of pine forests and steam baths. aggression against a third party. may yet prove the last refuge of

common sense in Europe. Instead of denouncing the new

But even Finland has its pact with Germany, as was pro-shadow. It is not Hitler, nor |vided. Russla has torn up the even Stalin, that is feared. It is Russia. Touring Finland's pact with her neighbour and, chief towns and industrial less than 12 hours after the centres recently I found scores denouement, has ordered her who had fought some of them

troops to march.

That the latest act in the European drama has drastically altered the complexion of Inter- national affairs, and nitored it for the worse, cannot be denied.

aa boya-in the war of indepen- donce 20 years ago which drove the Russians out and established Finland as a separate State.

again and again declared our firm adherence devolves upon the peoples of Great Britain and Entirely new and grave issues France, especially since other have to be faced. More and Hemocracies are either too weak more, the defence of those prin- or too unwilling to take their ciples of international law and part in the protection of civilisa- justice to which our leaders have 'tion.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Đaph. 1319 by Kulted Pajure Braditio

By Lichty New Ray To Guide

Traffic In Raids

'I went to a psychiatrist to-day, Cadwell! He said I need a new für coat!?!

THE "black ray" has arrived THE

to help to solve one of A.R.P.'s big problems-move- ment of essential traffic during air raids.

The Inventors, the Lum' X Com-

claim that pany, of London,

Bm- bulances, Are engines, food and munition convoys would be able to go safely about their vital dutica without normal lights with the aid of their ultraviolet ray lamp, play- ing upon fluorescent marks" in the roadway.

Big lorries drove ecrily round and round a South Croydon "autodrome” in ulmost complete darkness in the first demonstration of the "black- ray."

Representatives from the Home- Ofice, War Office, Admiralty, Air Ministry, and Scotland Yard watched the tests.

The lamp throws no reflection, and it is claimed that it would be: practically invisible from the air.

City Provides Wood Lot

Rutland, Vt. Here's a lesson in preparedness. At dozen city employes have begun fell- Ing troes in the municipal woodlot for next winter's fires. The city keeps enough for general charity and the rest belongs to the choppers, at no exposed: