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WE

LEST FORGET-

-THE NATION THAT

DID NOT DESERVE

TO DIE

AGAIN

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THE name of Poland once annually 10,000,000 tons of mer-

again disappears tem- chandise.

of porarily from the maps

Now consider the man who is the Europe, but It will not vanish backbone of Poland--the peasant, from the hearts of the Polcs, Going east from Germany in War- nor should it from curs as we saw the Nord Express used to rush do battle in the west for its through endless miles of plain,,every inch of which was cultivated. From liberation.

the train windows you saw ปา

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The War Goes On

WHEN THE German armies violated Belgium in 1914 their leaders counted on a short war. The

unfortunate German people buse been told by their controlled press that, with the conquest of Poland, Britain and France will be enger to accept peace terms, and tha remarkable "armistice" cele brations throughout Germany on Tuesday are indicative of this desire of the Germany to believe that their leaders are right.

For not only have its men, women, and children died under the hall of Germán steel, but years of hord work have been wiped out, years in which a race transformed itself into a nation.

A beautiful scene this, but on closer examination what struck the observer most was the poverty of the peasant. He was very poor.

700,000 Small Holdings

BACK in Warsaw I tried to

ind out whether this could The first time I went to Polund 1 not be remedied, and there, at the Jingined that Warsaw would be a Ministry, I discovered that only in drab, backward Stav elty, dirty, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia was any tumbledown, lacking in elegance,"

attempt being made to solve the pea- sant problem in Central Europe.

fnstead, 1 saw Warsaw as a clean

"First of all, please understand city of fine buildings, with a magal that Poland is land hungry," said the fleent opera house, skyscrapers, up- expert, "and that's due to over-

"I toll you, Chiof, wo got the year's biggest horror story hore-

three bridge players atranded on an uninhabited island!”

To-day is Hongkong Budget Day

GILBERT FRANKAU has thoughts on

MONEY

to-date newspaper oflees, and the population in the rural areas," NEVER having been out of Channel. It is a pity, therefore, that Now this is what happened. As debt between the years early as 1010 the Sejm (Parliament) 1906 and 1939, I claim to know of the Polish Repubile passed a re-

best-dressed men and women I had met since leaving London and travel ling across Northern Europe.

parcel them pire.

the average Briton should be taught to ille about money when he or she is young,

As a nation we still suffer from complex. Most of us, from the rich- est to the poorest, prefer thut our children should learn the hard lesson of £ s. d., us I myself had to learn it, by bitter personal experience.

sulation fixing the principles of land as much about money troubles us "You see," said a friend, on the reform. Chief of these was to break any treasury in the British Em- the "money is the root of all evil" terrace of the Hotel Europasky, "we up the big estates and are not Balkanised or backward as out into small lots. so many of you western Europeans

Yet my very rich friends- am So during the last 20 years 700,000 seem to think, though, I admit, 20 form holdings have been created or always delighted to observe spend years ago it was not like this." enabled to achieve independent status. far more time worrying about their

There have been giving work and Anancial futures than I do minc. livelihood to 3,500,000 peasants.

My father was like that. Though Then year by year the Poles in his worry was never personal. The. While as for teaching them the dif crossed the area of arable land by thought that he might not leave my turning barten land to account, and'

Homesteads And Farms Burned

materials.

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We would for rather see the little darlings studying French for their school certificates than the price of bread, meat, Ash, and vegetables.

ference between Preference and Or-

much more satisfactory that they freehold and a leasehold... bow should have started algebra.

The Nazl boast has been given a withering answer in M. Duladier's FROM him 1 heard what Po- they have, in fact, increased the areal mother and his four children pro-dinary shared, or even between a

land looked like just after of arable land by more than 3,000,-perly provided for used to drive him broadcast yesterday and, doubtless.

the 1014 war. The factories were 000 acres to give the peasant a better nearly frantic.

deal. Mr. Neville Chamberlain will be closed because of a shortage of raw

1 still drink of him us the least

who ever lived. Hu Financial Ignorance equally emphatic in his rejection of

The fields of the peasants Lest we forgel, these independent selfish man the so-called Nazi peace terms when were waste lands, their stock had small farmers now become Hiller's grudged himself everything-at times! serts until they are once more even a hunsom cab home after a late he addresses the House of Com-been slaughtered, their homesteads liberated.

night at the office. Us he grudged nothing. mons this evening.

and forms burned.

Then, for obvious rensons and to "The Germans and the Rusalons absorb the surplus rural population,| fought back and forth here like glant the Poles concentrated on Industry. ploughs,2-my-friend added, turning.What-they-havo-done-in-industrial my mother and I-between us blewed upside down everything in their production can best be seen by the insido 10 years, path."

Whatever succenses Hitler's per- fidy and desperate haste have won In Poland, all the work! now knows that the conquest of that unhappy victim of Nazi aggression is only the beginning of the struggle to which Nazilem has challenged civilisation and into which Britain is throwing all her strength.

The Fuchror in his frenzy may bo blind to the lessons of the long

With what result? He died, as told you last week, at an early age, leaving quite a large capital-which

LGEBRA ' forsooth. When the boys don't know how much their own boots cost, and the girls, at any rate of our so-called upper and middle classes, can't even be trusted to buy a cauliflower,

sheer crass, hopeless, terrifying and- Oh, the nanelal ignorance - the completely avoidable financial ig- norance of the average middle-class bride and bridegroom.

The enduring miracle is that their domestic budgets ever balance. Yet most of them eventually do. value of money. Et hour the knocks

index figure. In 1922 it stood at: 75.5, but last year it had risen to Blewed, maybe, is not exactly the Vast districts were on the edge of 110.5.

right word. Most of the money went famine, communications were com-

into business and never came out Though the Germans destroyed or of it. Nevertheless, the money went pistely disorganised. The currency stole 80,000 electrical machines and was chaotic, with German, Russian, about 7,000,000 yards of cable, Po- The Way to Treat It and Austrian coinage in circulation. land's electro-technical industry in-

creased its production fourfold. Lest we forget, then, this is the

Germany has again laid waste. Out

by 145 per cent.; calcium products personal responsibility--that I could of this morans the Poles built were doubled artificial silk produc-restore their share of the family snobbish and more practical.

tion increased fivefold.

The chemical Industry tells the

mother died without

Mknowing the west allie

Eventually most of us learn the

effort from 1914 to 1916, but they background of the new Poland which same story: the output of soda rose Wards I used to dream-having in- we take on the way to knowledge

have been well and truly learned in England.

country, not faultless, but having within it plenty to admire.

Now look briefly at their achieve then I ments.

Kitchener's doctrine that to wage a major war the nation must pre- pare for years of fighting was startling in 1914. We wasted many lives, much time and much treasure before our leaders organised Britain's man power for military service and her Industries for the supply of munitions; Now, the machinery to marshal the Em- pire's utmost strength In artna, Bultic. made rendy before the outbreak of war, is at work.

The certainly that, however long

ne-

Fishing Village Into Big Port FIRST, Gdynia, built to give

them their own port on the

Sixteen years ago Gdynia was

berited

of an exaggerated sense

could be avoided if either our parents or our school teachers would be less

fortune to my surviving brother and Her locomotive builders made Po-sister. lund self-sufficient in rolling stock; her papermakers increased their out- pul four times; the cellulose mills would have been any the happier for in accounted for n sixfold increase in it I refuse to admit." production.

The making of money, the spend- ing of money, or the inverting of money, however much we may resent But I never have. And that they the fact, plays a considerable part almost every human being's existence.

She Wanted Ten

More Years

a

Children brought up in completę ignorance-as so many upper and middle-class children are-öl money matters represent a constant danger to the community. They are apt to become (as in my own case) spend- thrifts; or what is even worst, misers. Such children are equally the prey, In later years, of the bucket-shop keeper and fraudulent political

Both, like myself, Irad busy lives. My brother Ronald's success is well known. My #ister's, though less spectacular, seems to me even more satisfactory. She has devoted her self, in the intervals of bringing up IEST we forget what the Polish large family, to pure scholarship.

worker has now lost, hole Accordingly, there is no need for "that Poland was one of the first my father to turn in his grave. village of a couple of hundred fisher- countries to introduce the, eight- men, who lived with their families hours day (seven in the mines and Nor, as I like to imagine, were his the task may take, it will be complished, will hardly be kept by

in thatched houses along the sandy six for workers in temperatures over efforts and my mother's entirely economist like Karl Marx.

92 degrees). In Germany, and pre-wasted, as the poet tells us to You Must Be Master the worst brutality of the Gestapo

sumably under the Germans, 10 live in hearts we leave behind is not

to dlo, from the knowledge of the German

NOR the real secrot about Now those same fishermen are (or hours is the working day.

money is that if you don't people.

rather were), Iving in villas in The Pales, however, do not belleve; That the last sentence is perilously Whatever Hitler's monomaniac nearby Zoppol, the Monte Carlo of that man lives by work alone. near "sob-stuff," I admit. Let us master and the sooner you are admit, further, that great financiera taught to do this the better-It will faith in his atar, his people are the Baltic. For on the sites of their

After, the 1914-18 war, the Poles treat money as it should be treated end by mastering you. clearly uncomfortable, as the joyous thriched houses stand blocks of flats, began with a shocking porcentage of objectively, unsentimentally, and un- Henec, more often than not, your celebrations throughout the coun- rows of shops. The land, on which literates, to the deliberate emotionally. But how many of us unhappy over-rich man who is afraid try at the hoax armistice reports they dried their fishing nets is worth polley of the partitioning Powers, can afford to do that?

who wanted to keep their victims not bear witness.

£ a square yard.

only in serfdom but also in spiritual Foolish Slogan Lest we forget Hier's real smash darkness.

shore.

subnurino oscitiators.

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To nearly all of us pay and never does.

whether received 8

of losing his possessions. Hence, and hence only, your debtor who is al- ways 50 certain that he'll be able to It must be depressing to the

"let you have it back by Monday"- Gorman man-in-the-street, how- and grab aim, please note that you But in the last few years the Pales

Bolh such are money-slaves, over dulled by propaganda, when he could see as many as 40 or 50 ships have built 10,000 elementary schools, ment for work we do or na interest learns

that, though Poland be in the 700 acres of Gdynia's harbour so no wonder the percentage of chli on accumulated savings, is a personal though neither of them. In my crushed, he will for an indefinite busins, protected by breakwaters dren in school goared from 60 in 1921 matter. Our private budgets are the opinion, is worth much pity.

It would measures of our material Ilves. So Such pity as I have for money- parlod be short of meat, short of two miles and a half long, equipped to the latest figure of 93.

slaves. is Her stepped in,

vost or our savings. So much goes out majority who won't find it too easy

reserved for the clothes, without any soap, and that with automatic radio beacons and ive been 100 per cent, but much comes in yearly from our work in the best which the regime 'can'

Then, with her limited resources, for our expenses.

to pay that extra twopence on leg or, promiso him.

From here, went regular passenger Poland created social services that Lower our income or put up our that extra penny on petrol, services to North and South America. may now disappear-community cen- expenditure. Either way, we squeal, It is clear that the Allled chalet in and out moved 40,000 passengers tres, summer camps for children, And the people who squeal loudest AJI the same, they'll do it, and lenge is disturbing Hitler's

supplementary feeding in the schools in my expulenco-are the very peo without too much grumbling. Nor "peaca" terms shows that

a year. To make this artificial port for the moment the prospect is dark. ple who are always ready to preach: should the better off grudge that Fuchrer has been thinking over it. Folos £12,000,000, but it will always out of the scrub and sand east the

"Money doesn't mean happiness." extra income tax, We needed another 10 years of

That slogan is not even "rob-stuff," Because even those-and, believe it. creation of

Lack of or not, they are stil! Tegion-who money for reasonable needs, theso have never been taught the difference including enjoyment, will sour any-between a Preferenco share and am

Ordinary know one meaning of, the * body except a saint.

Saints, however, are rarities; and word "Security." the average Brilon, though he 'dia- It's always worth while paying out likes being told so, is just on fond of money-down to your very lust kix. money, as his neighbours across the pence-for that!

the

nence to complete the

The "armistico" celobrations show stand as symbolic of Poinnd's ecogo- the now Poland," said an attache at It is sheer balderdash,

that the German people have also mic dynamics, though the name of the Polish Embassy to me. been thinking over it. They, the Poland may vanish from the map people, will think dangerously.

Someone In Germany is going to remember that "the last buttle' Britain always wins.”

and the name of Gdynie be changed Lest we forget, Poland's 20 years into some German form.

show that she deserved that pence.

In a few years, then, this new port bullt up a trade in which it handled-

Emrys Jones

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