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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 ac commodate itself.

HEADACHES

STALIN-the

modern Genghis Khan?

M

of

R. HOOVER the other day said "the Com- munist attack on 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

hero.

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

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.

-Skliful,-dunning,-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 ferce horsemen,

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

force. 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 answers 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 rung high. Everyone is agreed that Sweden should give the maximum help possible to the Finns.

Recent

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 Turkca- tan: took Bokhara and Samar- kand. In a dozen years he had made an empire that stretched from the Pacifle to the Black Bea. Then he diled, aged 65,

But the work went on.

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

BY W. N. EWER

CENCHIS KHAN

STALIN

"Remember that I, too, am an Asiatic," 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 died down/ *10 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 icader of a Socialist State?

The answer, I think, ls that wo Judge Stalin wrongly if we think of him primarily as a Communist. Primartly he is a great Astalle 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 busied himself with the question of the "nationalities," not with Bocial OF economic matters.

It is significant that, come to brake the." Western- power, he 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 strategic reasoris,

The centre of gravity of the Russian Empire has been moved. castwards, Aslawards. Its old his- toric centres are becoming out- lying frontier regions.

Russia under Stalin becomes a great Central and North Asiatic 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 Chingis-with 蹑 Georgian instead of a Tartar at its head.

Stalin, like Temujin, has taken a titio. It is Vozha Narodov: Leader of the Nations.

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

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_or_ 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 arms: of its readiness to "break. the necks of its

enemies." The flatteries 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 is! The Georgian Vozhd sits in the Kremlin, sur- rounded by his Vizlers and his sycophants, proud of the vast ex- tent of his domains and of his unquestioned mastery over mi- boasting of his great armies, lions threatening terrible war against any who defy his will dreaming perhaps of new raids which sha force now European peoples to submit to an Asiatic overlord.

Not so completely unlike Chingis after all.

Will Poetry Survive the War?

discouragement to the NO far as I remember, none of us was always the way of poetry, and days are a

asked this question or had cause it is likely to be the way again, poet. Is there any?

to

It is not to be thought of that the

Flood

Of Belilah freedom, which, to the

open ses

Of the world's praise, from dark

antiquity

Hath

pomp of

flowed, "with waters, unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to

mood

Which spurns the check of salu-

Lary bands,

That this most famous Stream in

bogs and sands

Should perish; and to evil and to

good

Nazi bluster, promising Sweden to ask it at the beginning of the last 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 1914, remember the first ap- inspiration, an effluence of sheer joy pearance of those splendid sonnets which needs happy moments for its ly not mollify the indigna-will seem superfluous now.

written by a young poet, practically tion aroused.

nurture. It is quite true' that much Thus

Surely poetry, being immortal us unknown the "en-

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 in the contemplation of the delight- mortality the battlefield as it has pulpit of St. Paul's and thus com- neutrals out of the League and always survived it? And not only mended to the world at large. They ful, but is not the greatest poetry to frighten the Scandinavian will it survive it but it will snatch were the precursors of many poems ofien that which is inspired by the countries into prohibiting as-newer glories in the process. That which proved that poctry was still a terrible, the horrific or the tragic

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

experience behind us, it is surely an in an incandescent light, the beauty, and brought the threatened tallons and mechanised arms impertinence to ask whether our of suffering? What is common States into closer association to has taught confidence that the poetry will survive the present con-all kinds of poetry worth the name le not so much delight as the exelte- resist aggression.

giant of Bolshevism may ha defied by a brave and resolute only because the days are full of

And yet I ask the question not ment under which it to produced.

At the beginning of last century Of no less significance are the nation. There is no other safe dangers which seem calculated to Britain found herself faced with the demonstrations in the south and ty for neutrals but common discourage poets from writing, but aggression of Napoleon and the 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, ally a thing of the antique world" appointed Poet Laureate, responded epenly argued that poetry in essen-¡ who nearly half a century later was China Motor Agencies and Sales Co. and Bolahavisin is rousing the the thror has declared the of which our modern habit of versl with those magnificent sonnels de

spirit of the neutrals and draw-sun shall not shine on any coun-tying is a survival-a

toy out of diented. to National Independence and try which marches with our fashion.

Liberty. In April, 1903, a month ing them closer together. The own." Union in resistance will A Text for To-day

before wo declared war upon Bona-

That sonnet might be our text tos, parte, ha contributed to the day, and those with which Word splendid prolongation of the re-preserve for each its national Now let us see what truth there forming Post those remarkable and worth followed it have passaged in sistance of Finland to big bat-'rights.

Is in the first suggestion that dark now classic line

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