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December 8, 1939.

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RUSSIA OPENS FRONT AND BACK DOORS TO THE WEST

The Mother of the Slava sprawls.over_a_continent, now_balancing..now_upsetting Europa's delicato balance of power......._Hor. prosent advance in Europe has been at the Invitation of Hitler; but her fundamental interests in the Baltic and the Balkáns would seem to clash with those of Germany. How long then can this unnatural 'alliance continuo ?.

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Russia had no shore, no door to Peter, the Great at last directs it to AS Russin begun a Ivan The Terrible (1533-84) |

the outside world; ne port, no way the set. He takes the Baltic states. westward push? The Duchy of Moscow has come out. Of course, it tried to drive the So Russia has a door, a front door. it going to play a into being. Russia has begun, The bulldozer through the woods and Russia goes to the West; the West sea. The terrible comes into Russia. The Sea surges Slavs have a mether. Mother Russia swamps to a is on the way to Europe.

Ivan" was one of the mightiest of through Russia's own portal. A role in Europe again?

drivers, Ho went in every direction, splendid city rises upon it, welcoming. You yourself must give the

Russie moves "slowly. She does greatly expanding his empire. He Europe to Muscovy, directing Mus answer. It is written where all not travel in a buggy. She has no sat as a colossus on his monstrous covy to Europe. may read. It is scrawled in roads, and must make her way as she caterpillar but he couldn't get to a The city is St. Petersburg. Over On balance, our nett losses in gigantle letters across the most goes. So she rides on a "bulldozer," door.

excavating machines, a scraper Peter The Great (1682-1725) bells exultantly cry, "Russia has a fourteen weeks of war amount titanic land empire that has the most formidable of all American

ever persisted among the nations pushed by a crawling tractor that However, the bulldozer didn't stop. to no more than 60,000 tons of men. The sentences are ir-tears out trees, boulders, buildings,

Russia had a bulldozer It constantly gained in power. The The Empresses (1730-96). Considering that we have a regular and distorted, as if made as it moves.

It moves os a But the bulldozer has not stopped. been driving it to the West, clumsy, logical force on earth. merchant fleet of 21,000,000 by children, or in the dark. But 500 years ago. And has constantly Russian notion is the mightiest bio

any discerning man can make huge, slow, mighly.

glacier. Who can stop glacier? Russla's huge house requires another door, a southern portal-Into the Mediterranean. So Russla pushes on. tons, Mr. Churchill is obviously them out.

Women are now masters; empresses: justified in his assertion that

rule the Russlans. But it matters not who holds the wheel. The needs and strivings of the millions guide- and impel the tank.

They take us back towards the end

of the last millennium. They reveal our mercantile marine is praca boundless expanse of level-steppes, tically unaffected.

The Nazis can make no such claims for the U-boat position. At least five U-boats have been sunk since the First Lord of the

sea.

dreary swamps, trackless foresta, All is as formless as a shoreless Currente surge through it as bewli- dered gulf 'streams; unending waves leap and fall in futile rhythm. They are the tribes of the earth, wandering without compass and without chroni- cle; wandering whithersoever hunger leads or fear drives, ravaging, devour. disappearing. A limitless, inorti-

Admiralty made his last reporting, samin octon-that was Russia.

never

to the House of Commons, a rate of destruction that we achieved in the last war.

Then somehow, from somewhore, there appeared a definite type, the Slavs. They spattered as a drop of Out milk fallen on a stone. In time there were Slavs in: the Baltics, Slavs in the Balkans, Slays in the Carpathians, Slavs in the Slavs in the Alps, Peloponnesus.

of 60 U-boats which were ready for action at the beginning of September almost half must now be lost: Such a rate of destruc- tion of submarines and of trained crews cannot be endured for long by Germany.

Christianity (989) · Looking farther upon that formless Slavic sea you see a light piercing the gloom. Religion comes to the Russian Slavs (280).) From China? No. From India? No. From the West, through Constantinople. It is Chri- Unlike past weeke, Britain stianity. That's a new link with Europe. To the Instinctive tle of has not suffered any new losses hunger is added the invisible band on the Royal Navy aldo. The of faith. The Slavs move West. Rawalpindi—an armed auxiliary cruiser was destroyed after gallant action last week,

Duchy Of Moscow (1300)

Imagine them now as clouds cover- aing the skies. They are always in motion. No constant form; no per- sisting colour. The clouds most,

The balance is on our side in coalesce, separate, merge again

evory direction on the sens, in

the air, on land and on economic front.

the

endlessly. Nol There's a dense mass there in the middle that seems to stay together. It looks like a whale; like an elephant; like a camel! Like.

all of them, and none of them. But

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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it remains, it does not vanish. It "Can you play some old fashioned dances—like the Black Bottam?"

will never vanish.

Turkey blocks the way! Turkey had a grand empire when Russia was little more than a Muscovite duchy. It dominated North Afrien; much of Asia, and a good deal of Europe while Russia was still wading in ita swampt. But Russia needs a door; It won't be stopped. War follows war. Barrier after barrier is raised, road after road is blocked. Half of Europe comes to Turkey's all--all to no avail. The tank goes on and on. It tears out forcals, smashes citadels, crushes an empire; crashes to the sea, Russia' hosa southern door, another, road to the West. Husain now has two arts with which to embrace Europe.. It is the end of the 18th century,

The Alexanders (1825-81)

"But time did not stop with the 18th: century, Nor does the Russian tank. [The empire extends over nearly one- sixth of the 'earth's land surface. but that is not enough. The machine moves on. It rolls over little Finland (1800), passes over almost the whole- of Poland (1815) rolls over the Balkons clear to the outpost of Con- stantinople (1870), treeing Bulgaria and Rumania, retaining the province. of Bessarabla.

That endured until 1017.

Josef Stalin

But time did not end in 1917. The course of Russian history is not de- Bected. Russian bower is not, ex- hausted, the Russian bulldozer: not.

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