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THE RUSSIAN QUESTION MARK

Storm

in the

UST over four years ago Saarland miners and steel workers shook hands with their friends from Franca who were going buck home over the Lor

Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Awociations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, raine border because, as a re- either wholly or in part without graviosult of the Plebiscite, the Saar Arrangement,

Imponderables

was returning to the German Reich.

It is not good-bye." To-day these some men are divided by the guns and shells that spatter death along the Siegfried Line.

They smiled at each other, clapped In times of crisis the materially-we will meet again at holiday each other on the shoulder and såld:

minded thinker usually assumes the

tlines. role of a realist and, in attempting to be prophetic, endeavours to balance ascertainable facts, He predicts success for that side on which he Ands

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changes, the disposition of forces, racial solidarity, and geographical ad. vantages are the weights in his scales. In following this method, however, he can no more prophesy the actual

Centre West

The French Army is digging His heels into the Saar, that rich industrial 'aren which, four years after voting its return to the 'Releli, finds itself thic centre of the Western, Front activity. Here

MARY FERGUSION

who mixed freely with the Saarlanders during' the 1935 plebiscite, tells you about these people who, unlit 1935, weco workmales the Frenclunent

they are now fighting.

We will not viculinise the mass of the people in your ranks," he added, "apart, of course, from taking their jobs from them and giving them to our own people.

"But we shall certainly not tolerate the trade unions or their socletles.

"I would advise you and your fellow leaders to get away as quickly as you can."

All the loose money In the Neun- kirchen trade union offices was im- mediately confiscated by local Hit- lerlies and handed over to the Nazi Welfare Fund,

Dr. Eugene Feied, editor of a Soar-

aa American, another English journa- louis Labour paper, left after the But they never wanted it to hap. list and I collected some money be- plebiscite, taking 200 colleagues with

The Saarlanders andi the tween us and gave it to the women him. French understood each other per- to buy milk for their children."

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מסכן

When the plebiscite was being

with a German

I

taken on that freezing January day AFTER writing that report DURING the night of the plebiscite the home of the In 1935 I sat in a cafe in Saarbrucken

went to Saargemund. French Consul in Saarbrucken watching the snow swirling down is filled with emigres-people wanted to get away to safety and a Frenchman, "Every train from Saarbrucken was besicged with people who who are fleeing from their over the Lorraine border and homes because they have spoken into Forbach.

outside.

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course of events than a speculator NAZI Brownshirts swaggered in free criticism of what the with his books of statistics and charts hustling-timid-men-and-women--

on the snowy pavements, Nazis are doing," I wrote.

As the frightened mine and stect workers and their families fled ocross, can surely predict the course of the towards the Nazi headquarters brutality of the Nazis

Among other facts about the the borders, grim-faced Nazis took to Socialist their photographs to add to the Nazi to listen to a wireless talk about Saarlanders

that 1 learnt were book of horrors. the greatness of Adolf Hitler. these:

market.

The result Is that calculations quick- ly become subordinated to wishful thinking. Men form their opinions according to their habitual point of

At Senrlouls acid was thrown on Thousands fled from their homes, The German, a steelworker who the face of a man because he was leaving behind them all they owned. Hundreds of thousands stayed at was a Sanriander by birth, thumped an ardent trade unionist. Socialist the table with his clenched Ast and leaders in the Saar were told, two thele jobs and

kept their mouths said to us, "We will teach these up- days after the plebiscite was inken, shut. The scorn and hatred they felt the Nazis was hidden in their manners, Who made them think for them. to accept as conclusive arguments that every German wanted to be a M. Etienne, one of the Socialist day that the world turned on the based on these supposed determining Naz17"

leaders in Neunkirchen, approached Naz! brule to drive it out of exist- factors, but to turn

the representative of Herr "Ĥuerckel, ence. one's thought The Frenchman sipped his wine Hlter's Commissioner for the Saar, Adolf Hitler must be a very wor-i

view, For this reason it is well not starts at lesson toon. They have no that there was no hope of clemency hearts, waiting for expression on the i

SAILORS

DON'T LIKE SWIMMING

«IT is surprising how few sailors can swim," sald one of the Courageous' sur- vivors in the Daily Express.

Certainly the Navy don't do very well in Inter-service swim-

From ming sports,

1924-1937 the Navy won three times, the Army won eight tirnes, they dead- heated once, and the R.A.F. won twice.

The explanation is largely that the Navy is too scattered to develop teams of specialists, But It is a faci that Bailors rather despise swimming: yet they like rowing, off-duty.

The psychologist explains this apparent contradiction as follows; "Subconsciously the sailor must be frightened of the sea. It is

કચ્ hastile thing which he is always fighting. Therefore he must strive to remain master of it..

To concede that the ought to learn to swim would be to concede the possibility of a situation prising in which he would be at the sea's mercy. On the other. hand rowing a boat in his apore time strengthens his feeling of mastery."

This sounds a bit far-fetched, but remember we are dealing with the subconscious mind.

B

The Admiralty's attitude is that a man who can't swim is a poten- tial danger not only to himself but to others. So nowadays every would-be sailor must pass swimming test in clothes before he is allowed to go to sea. The test includes floating in clothes for five minutes, and is conducted in fresh water to make it more difficult.

more to those Imponderables which and shrugged his shoulders, "You and tried to get from him a declara- ried Leader, because the people of Freud's Son

in the long run have more influence will learn that all Germans must be tion that Socialists in Neunkirchen the Saar are, in the main, not his

Nazis," he said, as though speaking would not be terrorised. to a child.

than "reallam" will admit.

people. They fre democrats who Herr Buerckel's representative said love freedom. Foremost among these comes

Hiller has enemies on both sides of the The Saarlander grumbled that we that this was impossible; that they actual state of mind of the peopleseople of the Saar were Socialisis nnny.

making a mistake, for the would follow the example of Ger- the Sunr borders who are just wolt-

ing for the Siegfried Line to break. concerned.. The vast majority are and did not approve of the Nazi wholly opposed to use of force as a methods or creed. means of settling international dis- putes. There can be no room for doubt on this score.

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THE world knows how the Saarlanders went to the poli

What of the rulers themselves? Do next day, and put crosses on they believe that by forcing a situa- their voting papers giving the tion fraught with so much evil they Saar to Hitler.

can establish a new set of laws of their own and thrust aside the statutes it means to be Germans under Nazi Since then they have learnt what

upon which the order of universe is rule. poised, statutes of which it has been written that "they stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness"?

To desist from the use of force as

a means of getting one's own way,

Now the guna are booming in Snurland, where normally million decent, hard-working miners, steel and fron workers, glass and brewery workers live-folk who have no

quarrel with the French or any other people.

:

which preponderating strength has pened four ux! a half years

Those people remember what hap- ago, seemed to assure, may be a liard thing when they anid "Yes" to the Nazi for humon pride to swallow, but it woder.

Miners who sald openly they did

may be still harder to disregard the very influential and cogent appeals not like the Nazis were told to go. for peace made in the last few days.

and vote-"or else.

Workern in heavy Industries who The greatest of all the imponder-appeared reluctant, were told they ables, however, is the question of would be expected to "vote right," morale, wherever conscience makes take them to the polling station.

and that a Nazi agent would call to

elther cowards or heroes of us all.

On Thursday, January 17, 1935, However inviting to the bully may be I wrot in a dispatch to the Dally the prospect afforded by a timis and Herald":- Ineffectual opposition, the situation is completely altered when firmness and courage show clearly that supposedly superior force la not to be allowed to have things all its own way,

Such Imponderabies are crystalline ing and detaching themselves from the chaotle vapours that taint the alr.

"Cutbreaks of Nazi terrorism werd reported from many parts of the Snor territory to-day.

"I went to-day to the mining town of Dudweller, where I was taken by an official of the mines ́ ́ to ' seo. 40 familles who have left their homes and have been · given temporary sholler in a big workmen's luf.......

"So-pitiful was the sight of the children crying for food, fint a Swiss,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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Headed by the eldest son of Pro- fessor Sigmund Freud, the great psychologist who died recently, they are entolling picked men to form an Austrian Legion.

"There are some thousands of us Austrians in Britaitf, all refugees," said Mr. Freud. I served for four years in the Great War, first as a volunteer, Ister as a "commissioned offleer, and many of us have fought against Britons in the past. This time we want, to fight with them:

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We wish to fight not only for the freedom of Austria but the freedom. of the world. Only when Germany -Nazi Germany is broken.can wo Austriims build a new Austria,

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