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HITLER and RUSSIA

SEVEN YEARS AFTER

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Last month was an bath vivid and sinister. We may say that it glares in history. Will it bo a marked date again?

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Both in Holland and Belgium the apprehension of immediate onslaught has passed. But there is no real Jull. A million German troops with mighty equipment are massed along the frontiers of the Low Countries and Luxemburg.

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Seven years have passed. Hiller Hydraulio became Chancellor of the Relch on January 30, 1933. That evening he stood in the lighted window while the

Just as in Schlleffen's time, the great torchlight procession tramped Nazi plans for invading all three and flared below; *

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That Yugoslavia should have shown open resistance to Axis demands for control of its rail- roads and industries in the event of war, and that to this resie

Europe had known no ascent like this. It was the unique apotheosis of a demagogue of reaction mob-man urging autocracy.

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It was portentous past all guessing at that time. Hitler was resolved to destroy the ideals of the League of Nations and to restore the Germanic war-creed in a more formidable shape thon ever,

Three considerations are instruc- tive, First, Her will hardly hazard a mechanised attack on the Low Countries while there is danger of a short frost und thaw. He must be surer of his weather.

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Second, it is not so certain that the Late would pay. Belgium and Holland are in a for stronger position than when war broke out. The Then and Now

The Allics can give swift support. Nazi onslaught might be folled after When he rose to Bismarck's place revolting the world. as a preliminary,, he was succeed Hindenburg. He became an ungrowned Kalser with more power than any of them since Charlemagne and the Olhos a thousand years be- fore.

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Seven years ago Germany contained about 05,000,000 people. He has created by cumulative violence cempire of nearly twice the size, with about 110,000,000 of inhabitants.

Napoleon never had so many sub-

jeets.

"Munich to Moscow"

Third, if Hitlerisin established air- bases against Britain in a conquered Holland, the enemy's communications, would become much more vulnerable to British bombers.

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For these reasons, it is quite possi- Goring, and the ble that Hitler, Generals have not yet taken fundn- mental decision to atrike at and

through the Low Countries when the going is good. But the watchword on the menuced side in "Qui vive?"

and the sentinels are unsleeping. Mind and Matter

For the moment, however, the Scandinavian situation is the graver. When Hitler became Chancellor he The world is forced to realise that proclaimed himself the implacable what seemed unthinkable may occur. antagonist of the Bolshevik revolu-A Russian attack on Sweden and Nor- tion. He destroyed Czecho-Slovakia way can no longer be ruled out of at Munich amidst the wild execra reckoning. We live in an age of tons

He murdered monstrous possibilities, In the moral

of Moscow. Poland with Moscow's ald.

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sphere their shapes are like horrife forms of giant reptiles and By means of the Nazi-Soviet com-other creatures far back in geological pact he precipitated another Europear time. war before we are done with it and war, It may become another world-

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CHATER ROAD.

As formerly against Finland, the

both Stockholm and Oslo the Krem-

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FINLAND'S

Strong Old Man

by George Godwin

Sovlet organs opened with a Nazi WHO is this Field - Marshal for Finland was thick with soldiers. less open but apparently as real Noutrals and Jeopardy

technique of abuse and menace. To Mannerheim, leader of Fin--and spies.

So he moved through the land, and objections of Hungary to do-

Like Wallenstein he has his touchin sent notes meant to intimidate. land's gallant little army against behind him there formed a peasant army, an army armed with scythes, **************‹ | mination by Germany must be of Irreligious superstition. Men of The replies were wary but not weak.the might of Russia?

encouraging to British states-his type are apt to regard seven years Challonge and Stand

We have all read about the Man-axes, knives and, here and there, an

old ride. men at a time when encourage-as a mystical number.

nerheim Line--the defence system The northern kingdoms are well

When Mannerheim reckoned the ment is more than usually From one end of Europe 10

the within their legal no well as moral he has built up along sections of his

moment had come to strike he could. other the lesser neutrals are in dread, right in aiding the Finns. They can country's eastern frontier. British backing for the not knowing what any day may not desist. Human nature forbids it.

But what kind of man is this number 12,000 followers. He had. zave what. Yugoslav stand is visible. If Nazi victory would make vassals of cerning their own safety.

bring. Not one of them feels safe. So do the life and death issues con- 73-year-old soldier who has behina / nothing to offer them

him the faith and confidence of all Garibaldi offered those who followed.

him to the liberation of Italy similar support exists for Hun-them-all. Not one of them would be

his countrymen? gary's attitude, it is not yet visi-

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all hope of keeping German This war in the moral sense is the Swedish and Norwegian replies, friendship without accepting greatest of wars. The Allied cause especially the former, were unsatis-

is true and glorious in the Miltonic factory and fringed danger. German overlordship has van-sense. It is a war for Europena ished in Budapest. Moreover, freedom and for the rights and hopes Will the Boar Dance?

All depends upon whether the Kremlin can be induced by Hitler the British are at this moment of man in all the world. preoccupied with the

Could Herian triumph, the po-and Ribbentrop to pay the price of developments. Bealde those, litical and humane ideals of western Mephistopheles, whose bargain was

civilisation would suffer their worst for body and soul. the question of Hungary's posi-throwback since the Dark Ages. tion may seem secondary.

So, the full alllance that Hiller and Hungary's position is

bistoric back-Ribbentrop seek, would offer the Against this deep plicated by its need of friend-round of to-day the more acute largest of delusive advantages but ordeal of the neutrals in north-would put Moscow at the mercy of ship with Germany, by western, central, and castern Europe the Reich.

the {m}~ trade relations with the latter must be seen, as well as

mortal example of the Finns. which always contain a threat to Hungarian economic inde- Alarm in the Low Countries pendence, by fear for Hungary's Holland and Belgium, have political independence

roused as by the tocsin. They lear should

that they and not Sweden and way so as to give Rusala open ports Germany monopolise Hungarian Norway might find themselves first on the North Atlantic at Narvik and Hammerfest is easy to talk of but not markets, and by the fact that an the firing line,

casy to do. extremely active and strategic-|

One of the Nazi trespassers in the Swedish Iron-Ora ally situated National Socialist atr had been brought down in movement exists in Hungary.

Belgium. Among his papers

The greatest of the Swedish iron- photographs of Belgian defences. | mines are in northern Luppland, far Next door to Greater Ger- Along the Dutch frontier heavy move within the Arctle circle. They are ments of German troops were ac- marvellous deposits said to contain of the Nazi Press.

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were

The weaknesses of the Soviet Em- pire would be gravely increased by an attack on Sweden and Norway.

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Annexation of northernmost Nor-

To understand a little of what Carl

'It was then that Mannerheim.. Gustav Mannerhelm means to the

revealed himself as the type of Fians one must know why he has soldier who forgets the textbooks. become a legend in his own life-time. and turns to the logle of ovents and

For that happens to few men. the facts before him, Nations mostly prefer their heroes dead.

He faced, in all, 00,000 Russian. troops. And they were well-armed. Had and seasoned men.

The reason is very simple. there been no Mannerheim, there would have been no Republic of Finland.

In Ave months he drove the last. of them out of the northern land,. achieving this eple military feat by taking them post by post, annexing their arms, their equipment, adding. it to his own.

Very tall--he stands six feet wo Inches in his socks-Field-Marshal Mannerheim, Baron in the Pecrage

But when Mannerheim returned. of Finland, is as lean and as hard victorious to Helsingfors it was to, and as upright to-day us he was and a Provisional Government 'de- when, in 1917, after the collapse of minding German assistance to drive. the Empire of the Tsars, for whom the Russians from the new capital. he had been fighting, he slipped over He glowered on them and reminded. the Karelian frontier into Finland, them of his first warnings. They de- which was then part of the Russian clined to listen, sent for Von der The German general caine.. Goltz. Empire.

But Mannerheim went-to Stock- When Russia collapsed us our ally, holm. Mannerhelm was a cavalry corps

companied by the bullying obbligato 10 per cent, of all Europe's high commander with thirty years Im- Finland would have, need of him

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| again, he said. He was content to perial service behind him,

wait. But it was an exhausted man in

He retured in 1919, when. Finland

people were starving.

many little Hungary has to use tact. Hungarian statesmen have had to be doubly tactful in satis- fying their own people that It seemed possible that the viola- If Russia conquered northern Fin- Ilungary was not coming- under tion of elther kingdom or both might land the shadow of her hand would civilian clothes who Umped into had to seek recognition of her now- be imminent. The Dutch Cabinet fall upon the Lappland iron-Delds. Helsink when the first Provisional the yoke of any big Power and held a special meeting last Sunday,

Government of the new State, just status from the world; when, too, her in satisfying at least one big Military leave was cancelled in both

Moscow would never be allowed to born of the Grand Duchy, was in countries. All measures were take.t

possess them. Germany is the chief session. Power that Hungary WBS for Instant resistance.

buyer of the Swedish ore, and covets pursuing no foreign policy "Free or Die"

control of that resource more than Mannerheim was well received, adverse to that larger country's

anything except the mastery of but hla utterances sounded mono- In Brusseln additional troops were Rumanian oll.

In that year Mannerheim became: interests.

enlled up to the number of nearly

"We must get the Bolshevik army then he has remained her Strong. Arst President of the Republic, Slaço- Should Britain's guarantees be 40,000. Practically Belgium is on a Stalin's Test extended to Hungary, they war-footing, with nearly 100,000 men

available.

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tonotts.

With Mannerheim como foodships.. the food-ships which saved the

country.

Less than four months ago Stalin out of Finland," he kept repeating, then

"and we must never let the Germans Ho had the cards in his hands. would cover two States which

held all the trumps. He seemed the fin." have a territorial dispute tie- The Dutch are determined not to most natute player alive. Then, in tween them. Hungary demands fall below the unyielding spirit of the flush of assurance, he lost his

their ancestors in the heroic

acumen and fumbled his cards. the return of Transylvania from when liberty was won. One Finland Rumania. Possibly as guaran- makes many,

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So they told him to get on with There has been no such blunder the first job, and Mannerheim tor of both States against a No doubt is now left that both the but this is worse-since the Napoleon turned his back once more on the third party's throat, Britain Low Countries will stand together to of Tilsit began to defeat himself by granite capital. may unwittingly acquire the the death if either is asualfed. desplaing Portugal, role of umpire between them.

Although seventy-three, lie has the- bearing of a man in the fifties. His tair remains plentiful and fron grey.. | his eyes, of the light, hard blue of: northern skies, are clear and stofidy,

nerheim's methods, when he lost. And in spite of the fact that Man».

drove the Russians out of Finland,. That was in the late autumn of earned him the title of ·ille '"bloody- This should, however, be hardly Nazi submarines attack Netherlands | It is certain that Stalin was misled | 1917, when Finland's day is but a exccutioner,”. Finland, sees in him a, less ́embarrassing than Ger- shipping wis peculiar brutality. If by false advice. Why should be not few hours and her darkness has peer of Garibaldi and Simon Bolivar,, mány's now position between this is meant to intimidate, the effect seille with Finland and Scandinavial.

upon a people with the fibre and Why should the autocrat of all the something of the terror of an eternal and is consolidated under her stronge Russia and' anti-Comintern

traditions: of the Dutch has been the Itursins become Ribbentrop's monkey? night. Japan.

opposite.

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Mannerheim had to work in secret, She is well content to do so,

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