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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.
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and herself bound, by Pact of State violated by the Soviet's natural enemy, should directly aid in the spoilation and dismemberment of an unhappy victim of aggres- sion.
The Soviet Pact of Non- Aggression with Nazi Germany was undoubtedly a direct incen- tive to Hitler to march into Poland. But n even bigger! betrayal of peace and of Euro- : pean freedom is provided by the
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
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PEACE
placing Swedish in the univer- sities, literature and normal in- tercourse of the country. The names of the towns have been changed-Helsingfors to Helsin- kl. 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
arch goventh in Europe, has a population of only 3,700,000, about half that THE youngest Finnish bility, is growing by leaps and of Greater London. Yet it has produced a relatively large pro-
soldier killed in that bounds.
war was 12 years old. Finns On the score of commerce the portion of outstanding men. are reluctant to accept a guaran- Finns have one big bone to pick Sibelius, probably the greatest tee 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 whom they have no quarrel and bilities of a relatively small forestry there are Finns who whom they feel to be at a safe could be sold to them if our
market. For more British goods cannot be ignored,
In an age when architecture distance. Here is one stumbling manufacturers would show a has shown little advance on the block (despite a firm belief in greater disposition to consider past, save in the use of plastic Finland that Britain will not the special needs of the country. concrete and glass, Finland has Finland, in fact, suffers (in its found two new ways of expres- permit any suerifee of. Finnisht independence merely to obtain own view) from being too little sing beauty in building-that of a 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 continually in recent still uncertain whether Finland Anito, whose library at Viipuri is a Baltic or a Balkan country, and the house he has just com- Even then it is not generally pleted for Mr. Harry Gullichsen Finland hopes that a way 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 granite, the sensitive work of customer for wood pulp, paper in Eurpoe to travel in or live in. Vaino Aaltonen, whom I visited and agricultural produce. Fin- If I were asked to name the in his studio outside Helsinki, 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 ly known.
fallen weeks.
But it is not much in its in-
That one source of nervous- country I have visited and is the ness apart, Finland to-day pre- key to much of the physical dividual great men that the sents a picture of calm, confi- fitness, mental alertness and claim of Finland to be regarded dent prosperity all too rare elae- 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 at- local "fascists," of half have been accustomed to steam tached to education and the in- their tiny percentage of themselves ut lenst 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.
agrarian coalition hut, throwing ladies of water on firmly in the saddle.
and
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, n TRADE figures are good, lake for a swim or, in winter, new hospital or a new library.
New markets for rolling in the snow.
Cinemas, by contrast, seemed paper and pulp
This ceremony, which is called lacking, and there is every- being found in South "sauna," produces a feeling of where an
New enter- fitness and mental and physical rather than on pleasure. Pos-
emphasis on Amerien.
work
This is the 250ft. high Marathon Tower built at Helsinki for next year's Olympic Games.
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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 one knows how the custom most countries.
There is one respect in which IN the quiet lanes off the prises, such as the manufacture
of cheap 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- Finns are second to none, though land, except the Finnish langu- they may be equalled. That is power politics there are Slovakia). are springing up. action of Soviet troops in march-still
countries where the Fisheries are being developed age and the universal love of in hospitality, a hospitality of the heart that finds expression Little by little the magnifi- in natural courtesy and tolera- ing into Poland for the express 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 faintly purpose of joining in its dis-heard only
Finus, which bears no resem- nations nearer the high road of where men and women can to aid this growing industry. memberment.
Even tourist traffic, despite blance to any other except, very world affairs could learn much devote their energies to the
Finland's apparent inaccessi- faintly, the Hungarian, is re- from Finland. Soviet Russia has solemnly normal business of living. signed Phets of Non-Aggression"
Such countries deserve atten- with_Afghanistan, China, Fin-tion to-day, if only because the
Daye. 1936 kg Cabel Festas Fradusių, Iss.
liberty.
land, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, flame of civilisation may still GRIN AND BEAR IT
be burning in them when it Poland and Italy. So far from has been snuffed out by con- easing the passage of an aggres-flict in places more "on the map." sor, these pacts specifically laid Finland is one of these. it down that
Geographically far distant from the agreements
the storm centres, politically a could be denounced only in the firm democracy and culturally in event of one of the contracting munities, this land of lakes, the front rank of civilised com-
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 víded, Russia has torn up 'the even Stalin, that is feared. It pact with her neighbour and, chicf
is Russia. Touring Finland's
towns and industrial| less than 12 hours after the centres recently I found scores denouement, has ordered her who had fought some of them as boys-in the war of indepen- dence 20 years ago which drove the Russians out and established
troops to march.
That the latest act in the Finland as a separate State. European drama has drastically altered the complexion of inter-
again and again declared our national affairs, and altered it
firm adherence devolves upon the for the worse, cannot be denied. peoples of Great Britain and Entirely now and grave issues France, especially since other have to be faced. More and Hemocracles 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.
By Lichty
"I went to a psychiatrist to-day, Cadwell! ~" He said I need a new fur coat!"
New Ray To Guide Traffic In Raids
THE "black ray" has arrived
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- pany, of London, claim that bulances, Are · engines, food and munition convoys would be able to go safely about their vital duties without normal lights with the old of their ultraviolet ray lamp, play- Ing upon fluorescent marks" in the roadway.
Big lorries drove terlly round and round a South Croydon "autodrome" In almost complete darkness in the demonstration of the "black,
frat Tây."
Representatives from the Home, Oflec, War Office, Admiralty, Alr | Ministry, and Scotland Yard watched
the lasts.
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. A. dozen city employes have begun fell- inst trees in the municipal woodlot for next winter's fres. The city keeps enough for general charity, and the reat belongs to the choppers, at no expense.
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