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heroically maintained through Dennis Noble, eleven weeks, los just completed another counterstroke of bril- liant success. The progressive discomfiture of the Bolshevik CHATER ROAD. giant has been accompanied by an intensification of the bom- bardment of neutruis with Ger- man threats. Every State in Northern Europe from the French frontier to the Russian has come under a heavy fire of abuse and demands.

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In the philosophy of Hitler it was never dreamed that threats would produce a hardening of determination to defy the bully, To this inconvenient pheno- menon his policy has now to ne- commodate itself. From the Dutch Government has come an outspoken declaration that Hol- land's integrity could not be matter for negotiation and any attack on her territory would meet with the most stubborn opposition of her armed forces. The Scandinavian Powers are no more inclined to accept the Nazi principle that "the Nordic coun- tries belong to the Lebensraum of the Soviet and Germany." Sharp answera are given by the Norwegian Press, the Danes re- tort that they detest the ad- vance of Bolshevism westward as much as Hitler and Germany did until last August and in -Sweden feeling runs high. Everyone is agreed that Sweden should give the maximum help possible to the Finna.

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R. HOOVER the other day said "the Com- munlat attack 'peaceful Finland typifies the barbarism Genghis Khan."

There is perhaps more in the comparison than Mr. Hoover realised, for he was just being rhetorical.

Nor, I think, would Stalin take it for an insult, for Genghis is by way of becoming a Stalinist

incro,

Who was he, this Genghis or Chingis, whose name—or rather title has been for seven cen- turles a synonym for savagery and terrible whirlwind quest?

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His real name was Temujin. He was son of a little chieftain of a Tartar or Mongol tribe on the steppes near Lake Baikal, born in 1162 when Henry II was king here.

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Skilful-cunning-a-man of steel, he gained domination over friends and rivals alike.

He united the Mongols under his own leadership, disciplined them, organised them, built an army of fierce horsemen.

Then he struck. Out of Central Asia there burst on the civilised world a tremendous revolutionary force. China was frst victim. Temujin (now bearing the title Chingis Khan, or Great Leader) struck in 1211.

Four

years later--in the year of -Magna Charta-his troops were in Peking, He was master of North- ern China.

He turned westward against the Islamic States; burst into Turkes- tan: took Bokhara and Samar- kand. In dozen years he had made an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Black Bea. Then he died, aged 05.

But the work went on.

The Tartars under his sons and grandsons swept over Russin, swept into Persia and Irak and Palestine, hammered at the outworks of Western Christendom, spread dis-

GENCHIS KHAN

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STALIN "Remember that I, too, am an Astatic," Stalin is reported once to have said.

may and alarm through Europe. Later Mongol princes founded an Empire in India. Men still alive can remember the passing of the last" Great Moghul,”

The wave dlcd down. The empire of Chingis crumbled. Europe and Islam and China re- covered from the tremendous im- pact.

But the Tartar conquest left deep traces where It passed. And the terror of the name of "Genghis Khan" inspired a hun- dred legends,

What conceivable parallel can there be between such a man and Stalin, the Marxist leader of a Socialist State?

The answer, I think, is that we judge Stalin wrongly if we think of him primarily as a Communist, Primarily he is a great Asiallo chieftain, whose vision is of a great

Astatic Empire, pressing 'upon' Europe, perhaps even dominating Europe, avenging Europe's con- quest of Asia,

"Remember that I, too, am an Asiatic," he said once to a Japanese Ambassador.

It was a profoundly significant remark.

For this Georgian the Bolshevik revolution itself was less a rising of oppressed classes than a rising of oppressed peoples: a revolt against Westernism in all its manifesta- tions. It is significant that in the early years he busled himself with the question of the "nationalities," not with social or economic matters.

It is significant that, come to power, he broke the "Western- ised old Bolsheviks and sur- rounded himself with men free from European contamination.

He brought Russia more and more out of European influence.

He began to shift her industries

into Asia-not only for strategie reasons.

The centre of gravity of the Russlan Empire has been moved. eastwards, Asinwards. Its old his- toric centres are becoming out- lying frontier regions.

Russia under Stalin becomes a great Central and North Asiatle Empire, pressing on Europe, press- ing into China, pressing perhaps, in the near future, on the Islamic lands of South Asia.

Not (with allowance for the seven centuries' gap) so unlike the Empire of Chingla-with Georgian Instead of a Tartar at its head.

Stalin, like Temujin, has taken a title.

It is Vozhd Narodov: Leader of the Nations,

Not, you notice, Leader of the Workers. Leader of the Natishs.

The man who chose that for himself has the Imperial mind. Can you imagine Lenin making such a choice: or indeed taking any title at all?

"The boasts of Stalin' aro ́not"of social achievements or of the wel- fare of the masses.

They are of the size and strength of the Union: of the might of its arma: of its readiness to "break the necks of its enemies."

The datteries of Stalin aro ful- some and obsequious: nothing like- them has been heard in Europe since Byzantium fell.

A strange and ironic sequel to a Marxist revolution.

But there.it is1 The Georgian Vozhd sits in the Kremlin, aur- rounded by his Viziers and his sycophants, proud of the vast ox- tent of his domains and of his unquestioned mastery over mil- llons, boasting of his great armles, threatening terrible war against any who defy his will: dreaming perhaps of new raids which shall force now European peoples to submit to an Asiatic overlord.

Not so completely unlike Ching's after all.

Will Poetry Survive the War?

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It is not to be thought of that the

Flood

Of British freedom, which, to the

open sea

of the world's praise, from dark.

antiquity

Hath flawed, "with pomp

of waters, unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to

a mood

Which spurna the check of salu-

tary bands,

That this most famous Stream in

bogs and sands

Should perish; and to evli and to

good

discouragement to the 1 Recent So far as I remember, none of us was always the way of poetry, and days are

asked this question or had cause it is likely to be the way again. poel. Is there any? Nazi bluster, promising Sweden to ask it at the beginning of the lust Those of us who were of reading Poetry, I can hear It said, is an the fate of Finland, will certain-war, and there are many to whom it age in 2014 remember the first up- Inspiration, an effluence of sheer joy ly not mollify the indigna- will seem superfluous now.

pearance of those splendid sonnets which needs happy moments for its written by a young poet, practically

nurture. It is quite true that much tion aroused. Thus the en- Surely poetry, being Immortal as unknown outside his own

circle deavour to drive the Northern the air we breathe will survive the which Dean Inge quoted from the poetry has its source in delight and neutrals out of the League and mortality of the battlefield as it has pulpit of St. Paul's and thus com- in the contemplation of the delight- always survived it? And not only mended to the world at large. They fut, but in not the greatest poetry to frighten the Scandinavian will it survive it but it will snatch were the precursors of many poems often that which is inspired by the countries into prohibiting as-

newer glories in the process. That which proved that poetry was still a terrible, the horrific or the tragic

vital force in Britain. With that the poetry which sets before us, as sistance to tho Finns has failed

experience behind us, it is surely an in an incandescent light, the beauty and brought the threatened talions and mechanised arms unpertinence ask whether our of suffering? What is common to States into closer association to has taught confidence that the poetry will survive the present con- all kinds of poetry worth the name

flict.

Is not so much delight as the excite- regist aggression.

giant of Bolshevism may be And yet I ask the question not ment under which it is produced. defed by a brave and resoluto only because the days are full of Of no less significance are the nation. There is no other safe dangers which seem calculated to Britain found herself faced with the At the beginning of last century demonstrations in the south and ty for neutrals but common discourage poots from writing, but aggression of Napoleon and south-east of Europe. There action against the aggressor. because in recent years it has been menace of invasion, and Wordsworth, also the menace of Hitlerism Like the barbarian tyrant of old, openly argued that poetry is essen- who nearly half a century later was tintly- thing of "the antique world,' appointed Poet Laureate, responded

Which Milton held. In every

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before we declared war upon Bona-

That sonnet might be our text to parte, bo contributed to the day, and those with which Words-> splendid prolongation of the re-proserve for each its national

New let us see what truth there Morning Post these remarkable and worth followed it have passages in sistance of Finland to big bat- rights.

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