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RUSSIA OPENS-FRONT-AND-BACK-DOORS-TO-THE-WEST-

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The Mother of the Slavs sprawls over a continent, now balancing, now upsetting Europe's delicate balance of power. present advance in Europe has been at the invitation of Hitler; but her fundamental interests in the Baltic and the Balkans would seem to clash with those of Germany. How long thon can this unnatural alliance continuo ?

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

the outside world; no port, no way the sea. Ho takes the Baltic states. Of course, it tried to drive the So Russia has a door, a front door. westward push? Is

The Duchy of Moscow has come out. it going to play à

sea. The "terrible comes into Russia. The Sea surges. Slavs have a mother. Mother Russia swampa to n

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

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

Russia 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 us a colossus on his monstrous covy to Europe. may read. It is scrawled in roads, and must make her way as she caterpillar bul he couldn't get to a On balance, our nett losses in gigantic letters across the most goes. So she rides on a "bulldozer," door.

titanic land empire that has the most formidable of all American

[excavating muchines, scraper Peter The Great (1682-1725) fourteen weeks of war amount 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 Considering that we have a regular and distorted, as if made as it moves.

500 years ago. And has constantly Russian nation is the mightiest blo by children, or in the dark. But been driving it to the West, clumsy, logical force on earth. It moves as a merchant fleet of 21,000,000 any discerning man can make huge, slow, mighty.

glacier,

can stop a glacter? tons, Mr. Churchill is obviously them out.

into being. Russia has begun. The bulldozer through the woods and Russin goes to the West; the West.

They take us back towards the end

justified in his assertion that of the last millennium. They reveal

sca.

our mercantile marine is praca boundless expanse of level steppes, dreary swamps, trackless forests, All tically unaffected.

is as formless as

a shoreless The Nazis can make no such Currents surge through it as bewil- dered gulf streams; unending waves claims for the U-boat position. leap and full in futile rhythm. They are the tribes of the earth, wandering At least five U-boats have been without compass and without chroni

cle; wandering whithersoever hunger sunk since the First Lord of the lends or fear drives, ravaging, devour. Admiralty made his last reporting, disappearing. A limitless, inarti-

to the House of Commons, a' rate of destruction that We nover achieved in the last war. Out milk fallen on a stone. In time there

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

Unlike past weeks, Britain has not suffered any new losses on the Royal Navy side. The Rawalpindi-an armed auxiliary cruiser-was destroyed after a gallant action last week

The balance is on our side in every direction-on the scas, in

cuinto human ocean-that was Russia. Then somehow, from somewhere, there appeared a definite type, the Slavs. They spattered as a drop of were Slava in the Baltics, Slavs in the Balkans, Slavs in the Carpathians,

In the Alps, Slave in

the Slav Peloponnesus.

Christianity (989) Looking farther upon that formless Slavic sen you see a light plercing the gloom. Religion comes to the Russian Slavs (988).) From China ? No. From India? No, From the West, through Constantinople. It is Chri- stianity. That's a new link, with Europe. To the instinctive tic hunger is added the invisible bond

of telth. The Sluve move West.

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Duchy of Moscow (1300) Imagine them now as clouds cover- ing the akles. They are always in motion. No constant form; nò per- sisting colour. The clouds meet, coalesce, separate, merge again--- endlessly, No! There's a dense mass there the middle that seems to It looks like a whale; stay, together.

the air, on land and on the like an elephant; ilke a camell Like economic front,

Jall of them, and none of them. But

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it remains, it does not vanlah. It Can you play some old fashioned dancor-like the Black Bottom?

"will riever vanish:-

The elly is St. Petersburg, Over- onion-domed, gold-decked churches. bells exultantly cry, "Russia has a doorl!!

The Empresses (1730-96)

But the bulldozer has not stopped.. Russla's huge house requires another door, u southom portal-into the Mediterranean. So Russia pushes on. Women are now masters; empresses rule the Russians. But it matters not who holds the wheel. The needs and strivings of the millions guide and impel the tank.

Turkey blocks the way! Turkey had a grand empire when Rusala was little more than a Muscovite duchy. It dominated North Africa, much of Asia, and a good deal of Europe while- Russia was still wading in its swamps.. But Russia needs a door; It won't be stopped. Wor follows war, Borrier after barrier is raised, road after rond Is blocked. Half of Europe comes to Turkey's old-all to no avail. The tank goes on and on. It tears out forests, smashes eltadels, crushes an ampire; crashes to the sea, Nusain has a southern door, another rood to the West. Russin now has two ngms with which to embrace Europe.. It is the end of the 18th century. The Alexanders (1825-81) But time did not stop with the 18tis 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 (1802), passes over almost the whole- of Poland (1815) rolls over the Balkons clear to the outpost of Con- stantinople (1870), freeing Bulgarin and Rumonia, retaining the province- of Bessarabia.

That endured unit 1917.

Josef Stalin

But time did not end in 1917. · Tho course of Russian history is not de- Rected. Russian power is not ex- hausted; the Russian bufidüzer not PLEASE Turn To Page 2,