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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. То this inconvenient pheno- menon his policy has now to ac- commodate itself.

the From Dutch Government has come an outspoken declaration that Hol- land's integrity could not be matter for negotiation and any attuck 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 runs high. | Everyone is agreed that Sweden

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HITLER

UP TO

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STALIN-the

modern Genghis Khan?

M

·R. HOOVER the other day said "the Com- munist attack on peaceful Finland typifles tho barbarism of 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 has 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 stoppes near Lake Baikal,' born in 1162 when Henry I was king here.

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, bullt an army of ferce horsemen.

Then he struck. Out of Central Asla there burst on the civilised world a tremendous revolutionary tarec. China was first 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 a dozen years he had made an empire that stretched from the Pacife to the Black Sea. Then he died, aged 65,

But the work went on.

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

BY W.

N. EWER

GENGHIS KHAN

STALIN

"Remember that I, too, am an Astatič," 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 Jast "Great Moghul."

The WOLVE diled down. Tha empire of Chingla 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 wo Judge Stalin wrongly if we think of him primarily as a Communist. Primarily he is a great Asiatic chieftain, whose viston is of a great

Asiatic 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

Temark.

For this Georgian the Bolshevik revolution itself was less a zising of oppressed classes than a rising of oppressed peoples: a revolt against Westernism in all its manifesta- tions. It is signincant that in the carly years he busted himself with the question of the "nationalities," not with social OF 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 Russin more and more out of European influence.

He began to shift her industries

into Asla-not only for strategic reasons.

The centre of gravity of the Russian Empire has been moved eastwards, Asiawards. 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 tho seven centuries' gap) so unlike the Empire of Chingls with Georgian instead of a Tartar at its head,

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Stalin, like Temujia, has taken a 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 are not of social achievements or of the wel- fare of the masses.

of

They are of the size and strength

the Union:

Union: of the might of its

arms; of its readiness to "break the necks of its enemies."

The flatteries of Stalin aru fui- some and obsequious: nothing like them has been heard in Europe since Byzantium fali,

A strange and ironic sequel to a Marxist revolution.

But there it is! The Georgian Vozhd alts in the. Kremlin, sur- rounded by his Viziers and his sycophants, proud of the vast ex- tent of his domains and of his unquestioned mastery over mi- lions, boasting of his great armies. threatening terrible war agairast any who defy his will: dreaming perhaps of new raids which shall force now European peoples to submit to an Astatic overlord.

Not so completely unlike Chingis after all..

Will Poetry Survive the War?

It is not to be thought of that the

Flood

Of British freedom, which, to the

Open ACA

Of the world's praise, from dark

antiquity

Hath flowed, "with

of pomp

Staused though it be fall often to

waters, unwithstood,"

n mood

Which spurns the check of salu-

tary bands,

That this most famous Stream in

bogs and sanda

Should perish;' and to 'evil and to'

good

Co far as I remember, none of us was always the way of poetry, and days are a discouragement to the Recent S

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

Those of us who were of reading: Poetry, 1 can hear it said, is an to ask it at the beginning of the last] the fate of Finland, will certain-war, and there are many to whom it age in 1014, remember the first op inspiration, an effluence of sheer foy pearance of those splendid connets which needa happy moments for its ly not mollify the indigna- will seem superfluous now.

written by a young poet, practically tion aroused. Thus the en- Surely poetry, being immortal as unknown outside his own circle, nurture. It is quite true that much 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 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 often that which in inspired by the countries into prohibiting as-newer glories in the process. That which proved that poetry was still a terrible, the horrifle or the tragle-

vital force in Britain. With that sistance to the Finns has failed

experience behind us, it is surely an the poetry which sets before us, n

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

Alet.

It not so much delight as the excite- resist aggresalon.

glant of Bolshevism may be] defied by a brave and resolute anty because the days are full of

And yet I ask the question not ment under which it is 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-cast of Europe. There action against the aggressor. because in recent years it has been menace of invasion, and Wordsworth, also the menaco of Hitlerlam Like the barbarian tyrant of old, openly argued that poetry is essen who nearly half a century later was

held. In tlatly a thing of "the antique world," uppainted Poet Laureate, responded China Motor Agencies and Sales Co. and Bolshevism is rousing the the Fuchrer has declared "the of which our modern habit of versi- with those magnificent sonneta do-

thing we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titleni spirit of the neutrals and draw-sun shall not shine on any coun-fying is a survival-a toy out of dicated to National Independence and

try which marches with our fashion.

manifold. Liberty. In April, 1809, a month ing them closer together. The own." Union in resistance will A Text for To-day

before we declared war upon Bona-

That sonnet might be our text to-- parte, Chờ · contributed ·to the day, and those with which Words. splendid prolongation of the re-preserve for each its national Now let us seo what truth there Morning Post there remarkable and worth followed it have passages in. sistance of Finland to big bat rights.

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