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-THE NATION THAT

DID NOT

DESERVE

TO DIE AGAIN

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

TH again disappears tom- chandice.

Now consider the man who is the

porarily from the maps of Europe, but it will not vanish backbone of Poland-the peasant,

Going east from Germany in Wor- from the hearts of the Poles,

nor should it from ours as we raw the Nerd Express used to rush do battle in the west for its through endless miles of plain, every inch of which was cultivated. From GOW the the train windows' you liberation.

Let we forget the enormity of the wheat fields stretching out from the and breast high under the sumiuer German offenée committed against railway track to the horizon, galden Poland, conskler what the Poles did sun. for their country in the course of its Stubbs Rd 20 years' resurrection.

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The War Goes On

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

A beautiful scene this, but on closer examination what struck the observer most was the poverty of the

He was very poor. pensant,

700,000 Small Holdings

BACK in Warsaw I tried to

find out whether this could The Arst time I went to Poland I

not be remedied, and there, ut thei Jagined that Warsaw would be a Ministry, I discovered that only in city, dirty, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia was uny drab, backward Slav

attempt being made to solve the pea- tumbledown, lacking in elegance,

sant problemi in Central Europe.

14-18

"I tell you, Chief, we got the year's biggest horror story horo-- throo bridge players stranded on an uninhabited islandf"

To-day is Hongkong Budget Day GILBERT FRANKAU has thoughts on

MONEY

Instead, I saw Warsaw as a clean

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

NEVER having been out of Channel. It is a pity, therefore, that the average Briton should be taught to-date newspaper clices, and the population in the rural areas.".

debt between the years so little about money when he or German armies | best-dressed men and women 1 had Now this is what happened. As THE WHEN

As a notion we still suller from in 1914 their met since leaving London and travel- ély as 1910 the Seim (Parliament) 1906 and 1939, I claim to know she is young. violated Belgium

of the Polish Republic paved a re-i a short waring neross Northern Europe.

Most of us, from the rich- complex. lenders counted na

est to the poorest, prefer that our people German unfortunate The

the money is the root of all evil children should learn the hard lesson bave been told by their controlled

of £ s... as I myself had to learn press that, with the conquest of Poland. Brituin and France will l

We would for rather see the little it, by bitter personal experience, darlings studying French for their eager to accept peace terms, and

school certificates than the price of the remarkable "armistice" cole-

bread, meat, fish, and vegetables. brallens throughout Germany un Tuesday are indicative of this desire

While as for teaching them the dif ference between Preference and Or- of the Germans to believe that their leaders are right.

much more satisfactory that they should have started algebru dinary shares, or even between 4 freehold and a leasehold...

The Nazi boast has been given a withering answer in M. Daladier's

deal.

how

solution fixing the principles of land as much about money troubles as “You see," said a friend, on the reform. Chief of these was to break any trensury in the British Em-

pire,

Yet my very rich friends-I am terrace of the Hotel Europesky, we up the big estates and parcel them are not Balkanised or backward as out into small lots.

So during the last 20 years 700,000 so many of you western Europeans seem to think, though, I adnut, 20 farm holdings have been created or always delighted to observe-spend enabled to achieve independent status, far more time worrying about their yours ago it was not like this."*

These have been giving work and a Bnancial futures than I du mine. livelihood to 3,500,000 peasants.

My father was like that. Though Homesteads And

Then year by year the Pales in his worry was never personal. The creased the area of arable land by thought that he might not leave my Farms Burned

turning barren land to account, and FRO FROM him I heard what Po- they have, in fact, Increased the area mother and his four children pro- Jand looked like just after uf arable land by more than 3,000,- perly provided for used to drive him 1 still think of him as the least broadcast yesterday and, doubtless, the 1914 war. The factories ware 000 acres to give the peasant a better nencly frantle. Mr. Neville Chamberlain will be cared because of a shortage of raw

Lest we forget, these Independent selfish man equally emphatic in his rejection of materials. The feds of the pensaniz

stock had small farmers now breame Hitler's grudged himself everything--at times unt! they are once more even a hansom cab home after a late serts

night at the office. Us he grudged the so-called Nazi peace terms when were waste lands, their

nothing. he addresses the House of Com-been slaughtered, their homesteads berated.

and farms burned.

Then, for obvious reasons and lo

With what result? He died, as 1 mons this evening.

told you last week, at an early age, *****Whatever successes -Hitler's per: The Germans and the Russians absorb the surplus rural population.

leaving-quite a Jarge capital-which fidy and desperate haste have won fought back and forth here like giant the Poles-concentrated on industry.

What they have done in Industrial in Poland, all the warld now knows ploughs," my friend added, "turning,

1922 it stood at index figure. In

risen to Blewed, maybe, is not exactly the that the conquest of that unhappy upside down everything in their production can best be seen by the my mother and I between "us blewed färer, crais, hopeless; terrifying-and-

75.5. but last year it had

right word. Most of the money went into a business-und never came out Though the Germans destroyed or of it. Nevertheless, the money went. pletely disorganised. The currency stole 80,000 electrical machines and was chaotic, with German, Russian, about 7,000,000 yards of cable, Fo- The

creased its production fourfold. and Austrian colauge in circulation. lend's electro-technical Industry In-

The chemical industry tells the products by 145 per cent; calefum

inside 10 years.

who ever lived. He Financial Ignorance

dled without

of

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.

Oh, the financial ignorance-the completely avoidable financial ig- norance of the average middio-class bride and bridegroom.

The enduring miracle is that their victim of Nazi aggression is only path." the beginning of the struggle to Vast districts were on the edge of 119.5.

domestle budgets over balance. Yet which Naziism has challenged famine, communications were com

Eventually most of us learn the civilisation and into which Britnin

Way to Treat Itmost of them oventually do, In throwing all her strength.

My mother

knowing the worst. After-value of money. But half the knocks we take on the way to knowledge The Fuchrer in his frenzy may

could be avoided if either our parents. be blind to the lessons of the long

Lest we forget, then, this is the

herited an exaggerated sense effort from 1914 to 1918, but they background of the new Poland which

their share of the family snobbish and more practical, restore have been well und truly learned in Germany has agula laid waste. Out Aume story: the output of soda rose Wards I used to dream-buving In- fortune to my surviving brother and of this moross the Poles built 2 were doubled; artificial silk produc- personal responsibility that I could or our school teachers would be less England.

Kitchener's doctrine that to wage country, not faultless, but having tion incrcused fivefold. a major war the nation must pre- within it plenty to admire. pare for years of fighting was then startling

1914. We in wasted many lives, much time and much treasure before our fenders organised Britain's man power for military service and her industries fer the supply of munitions; Now, the machinery to marshal the Em- pire's utmost strength in arme, Baltic. made rendy before the outbreak of war, is at work.

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The certainty that, however long the task may take, It will be complished, will hardly be kept by the worst brutality of the Gestapo from the knowledge of the German peopic.

Whatever Hitler's monomanine faith in his star, his people are clearly uncomfortable, as the joyous celebrations throughout the coun- try at the hoax armfatice reports bear witness.

Now look briefly at their achieve ments.

.

Fishing Village Into Big Port FIRST, Gdynia, built to give. then their own port on the

I

Her locomotive builders made Po- sister.

But I never have. And that they land self-sufficient in rolling stock; her papermakers Increased their out-

It I refuse to admit." pul four times; the cellulose mills! would have been any the happier for accounted for a sixfold Increase In

Both, like myself, tend busy lives. production.

My brother Ronald's success is well though Jess known. My slaler's, spectacular, seems to me even more satisfactory. She has devoted her self, in the intervals of bringing up a large family, to pure scholarship.

Accordingly, there is no need for my father to turn in his grave,

worker has now. lost, note

Thu making of money, the spend- Ing of money, or the investing of money, however much we may resent the fact, plays a considerable part in nimost every human being's existence.

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

She Wanted Ten More Years IEST we forget what the Polish Sixteen years ago Gdynia was that Poland was one of the first

introduce the eight- Nor, as I like to imagine, were his village of a couple of hundred fisher- countries to men, who lived with their families hours day (seven in the mines, and In thatched houses along the sandy six for workers in temperatures over efforts and my mother's entirely

82 degrees). In Germany, and pre-wasted, if-ns the poet tells us to You Must Be Master

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

io die.

Now those same fishermen are (or hours is the working day.

were) living in villas In

The Poles, however, do not believe rather nearby Zoppot, the Monte Carlo of that man Hves by work alone.

only in serfdom but also in spiritumi Foolish Slogan

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

FOR the real secret about money is that If you don't That the last sentence is perilously

master it and the sooner you are near "sob-stuff," I admit, Let us unit, further, that great financiers taught to do this the better-It will Hence, more often than not, your the Baltic. For on the sites of their After, the 1914-18 war, the Poles treat money as it should be treated-end by mustering you.

dus to the deliberate emotionally. But how many of us unhappy over-rich man who is afraid thatched houses stand blocks of fints, began with a shocking percentage of objectively, unsentimentally, and un- rown of shops. The land on which literates,

who wanted to keep their victims not! they dried their fishing pets is worth policy of the partitioning Powers, can afford to do that? £1 a square yard.

то O nearly all of us money, "let you have it back by Monday" Lest we forget Hitler's real smash darkness.

whether received as pay- and never does."

Both such are money-slaves, · It must be depressing to the

But in the last few years the Poles

them, in my how- and grab alma, please note that you Gorman man-in-the-street, over dulled by propaganda, when he could see as many as 40 or 30 ships have built 10,000 elementary schools, ment for work we do or as interest

in the 700 acres of Gdynia's harbour so no wonder the percentage of call-on nccumulated savings, is a personal though melther of

Such pity as I have for money- though Poland bo learns that,

the vast for I reserved crushed, he will for an indefinite basins, protected by brentewnters dren in school soured from 60 in 1921 matter. Our private budgets are the opinion, is worth much pity.

two miles and a half long, equipped to the latest figure of 03. It would, measures of our material lives. 50 or our savings. So much goes out

majority who won't find it too easy Hitler stepped in.

for our expenses.

to pay that extra twopence on tea or period be short of meat, shart of with automatic' radio beacons and soon have been 100 per cent, but much comes in yearly from our work clothes, without any soap, and that submarine oscillators.

Then, with her limited resources,

Lower our income or put up our that extra penny on petrol.

Either way, we squeal. in the best which the regime can

From here went regular passenger Poland created social services that promise him

services to North and South America, may now disappear-community cen-1 expenditure.

tres, summer camps for children, And the people who squeal loudest

exten Income tax. jonke Ja disturbing. 'Hitler's

In year. To make this artificial port for the moment the prospect is dark.plo who are always ready to preach: should the better of grudge that "pence" terins shows that the out of the scrubs and send cost the Fushrer has been thinking over. It. Pains £12,000,000, but it will always

slaves

All the same, they'll do it, and Nor

It is clear that the Allod "chal | In and out moved 40,000 passengers Rupplementary feeding in the schools. in my experience-are (he very peo-without too much grumbling

"We needed another 10 years of "Money docan't mean happiness,"

That slogan is not even "sob-stuff," creation of

Lack of nence to complete the The "armistico" celebrations show i stand as symbolle of Poland's scond, the new Poland," said an attache at it is sheer balderdash,

money for reasonable needs, these that the German people have also mic dynamics, though the name of the Polish Embassy to me.

including enjoyment, will sour any been thinking over it. Thoy, the Poland may vanish from the map

body except a saint.

people, will think dangerously..

Someone in Germany is going to remember that "the last battle Britain always wins.":

and the name of Gdynia be changed into some Gorman form.

:

In a few years, then, this new port built up a trade in which I handled

Lest we forget, Poland's 20 years show that she deserved that peace.

Emry's Jones

Saints, however, are rarities; and the average Briton, though he di likes being told so; is funt as fond of money as his neighbours across the

Because even those--and, believe it. or not, they are still legion-who have never been taught the difference between a Preference share and an Ordinary know one meaning of the word "Security"

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It's always worth while paying out monoy-down to your very last six- pence for that