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HITLER and RUSSIA

SEVEN YEARS AFTER

Last month was an nnniversary The Hanging Cloud both vivid and sinister. We may say that it glares in history. Will it bo a marked date again?

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January 30, 1933. That evening he stood in the lighted window while the Just as in Schlieffen's time, the great torchlight procession tramped Nazi plans for invading 11 three and flared below,

Demagogue of Reaction

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territories should Hitler decide to give the signal are detailed, time- tabled, and complete. They could be

HY-this, It was the unique apotheosis "Qui Vive?"

Europe had known no ascent like operated any day.

of a demagogue of reaction and 簸 Three considerations

mob-man urging autocracy.

Are Instruc- tive. First, Hitler will hardly hazard a mechanised attack on

It was portentous past all guessing Low Countries while there is danger at that time. 1ller was resolved to of a short frost and thaw. He must destroy the ideals of the League of be surer of his weather. Nations and to restore the Germanic war-creed in a more formidable shape than ever.

Then and Now

Second, it is not so certain that the fame would pay. Belgium and Holland are in a far stronger position than when war broke out, The Allies can give swift support, Tho Nazi onalaught might be falled after revolting the world.

When he rose to Bismarck's place БООП to ♦♦ as a preliminary, he was

succeed.Hindenburg.. He became an

Third, if Hitlerism established air- uncrowned Kaiser with more power bases against Britain in a conquered than any of them since Charlemagne Holland, the enemy's communications and the Olhos a thousand years be-would become much more vulnerable fore.

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Seven years ago Germany contained about 03,000,000 people. He created by cumulative violence

empire of nearly twice the size, with about 110,000,000 of inhabitants.

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For these reasons, it is quite possi- | hasble that Hitler,. Goring, and the an Generals have not yet taken a funda- mental decision to strike at and through the Low Countries when the going is good. But the watchword on the menaced side is "Qui vive?" Napoleon never had so many sub-and the sentinels are unsleeping.

Mind and Matter

For the moment, however, the! Scandinavian situation is the graver.

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When idler 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-Stavakia way can no longer be ruled out of at Munich amidst the wild execra- reckoning. We live in an age tions of Moscow.

He murdered monstrous possibilities. In the moral Poland with Moscow's ald.

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FINLAND'S

Strong Old Man

by George Godwin

Soviet organs opened with a Nazi WHO is this Field - Marshal for Finland was thick with soldiers, technique of abuse and menace. To Mannerheim, leader of Fin--and sples.

both Stockholm and Oslo the Krem-

So he moved through the land, and

less open but apparently as real Neutrals and Jeopardy objections of Hungary, to do- mination by Germany must be of the lalous luperstition. Men of The replies were wary but not weak. the might of Russia?

Like Wallenstein he has his touchlin sent notes meant to intimidate.land's gallant little army against behind him there formed a peasant. encouraging to British states his type are apt to regard seven years Challenge and Stand men at a time when encourage-as a mystical number.

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welcome.

more than usually

British backing

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The northern kingdoms are well to From one end of Europe the within their legal as well as moral other the lesser neutrals are in dread, right in aiding the Finns. They can for the not knowing what any day may not desist. Human nature forbids it.

Nazi victory would make vassals of cerning their own safety, similar support exists for Hun- them all. Not one of them would be gary's attitude, it is not yet visi- free as now.

army, an army armed with scythes,

old rine,

We have all read about the Mon-axes, knives and, here and there, an nerheim Line the defence system

When Mannerheim reckoned the he has built up along sections of his

moment had come to strike ho could. country's eastern frontier,

He had But what kind of man is this number 12,000 followers.

him the faith-and-confidence-of-all his countrymen?

Yugoslav stand is visible. If! bring. Not one of them feels sate. So do the life and death issues con-73-year-old soldier who has behind nothing to offer them save what

ble, and indeed will not be until The Miltonic Cause

in

Garibaldi offered those who followed. him to the liberation of Italy The subject has been spread out

wounds, hunger and death. the Soviet newspapers. Semi- To understand a little of what Carl It Wus then that Mannerheim. official statements pronounce that the Gustav Mannerheim means to the all hope of keeping German This war in the moral sense is the Swedish and Norwegian replies, Finns one must know why he has soldier who forgets the textbooks. revealed himself the type of friendship without accepting greatest of wars. The Allied cause especially the former, were unsatis- become a legend in his own life-time and turns to the loge of events and. German overlordship has van-sense. It is a war

is true and glorious in the Miltonie factory and fringed danger.

for European ished in Budapest. Moreover, freedom and for the rights and hopes Will the Bear Danco?

All depends upon whether the the British are at this moment of man in all the world,

Kremlin can be induced

by Hitler dead. preoccupied with the Baltic

Could Hitleris triumph, the po- and Ribbentrop to pay the price of developments. Beside those, litical and humane ideals of western Mephistopheles, whose burgain was the question of Hungary's posi- civilisation would suffer their worst for body and soul.

throwback since the Dark Ages, tion may seem secondary.

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For that happens to few men, the facts before him, Nations mostly prefer their heroES

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

He faced, in all, 90,000. Rusaion. troops. And they were, well-armed and seasoned men.

In five months he drove the last of them out of the northern land, achieving this epic milltary feat by taking them post by post, annexing. their arms, their equipment, adding. It to his own,

Very tali-he stands six feet two The weaknesses of the Soviet Em-inches in his socks-Field-Marshal pire would be gravely increased by Mannerheim, Baron in the Peerage an attack on Sweden and Norway. of Finland, is as lean and as hard victorious to Helsingfors it was to

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Annexation of northernmost Nor-

that they and not Sweden and way so as to give Rusala open ports Norway might find themselves first on the North Atlantic at Norvik and Hammerfest is easy to talk of but not the firing line,

casy to do, One of the Nazi trespassers in the Swedish Iron-Oro

in had been brought down'

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But when Mannerheim returned

and as upright to-day as he was find a Provisional Government de- when, in 1917, after the collapso of manding German assistance to drive A 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 frontler into Finland, them of his first warnings. They de which was then part of the Russian clined to listen, sent for Von der Belgium. Among his papers were The greatest of the Swedish iron- Empire.

Goltz. The German general came. photographs of Belgian defences.mines are in northern Lappland, far

But Mannerheim went to Stock- Along the Dutch frontier heavy move-within the Aretle circle. They are

When Russlo collapsed us our ally, holm. companied by the bullying obbligato 50 per cent, of all Europe's high commander with thirty years Im- ments of German troops were at marvellous deposits and to contain Mannerheim was a cavalry corps of the Nazi Press.

percentage fron-ore.

perial service behind him.

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Finland would have need of him. again, he said. He was' content to wait.

So, the full alliance that Hitler and Hungary's position is com- Against this deep historic back Ribbentrop seek, would offer the acute Jargest of delusive advantages but plicated by its need of friend-ground of to-day the more

ordeal of the neutrals in north-would put Moscow at the mercy of ship with Germany, by western, central, and castern Europe the Reich.

im- trade relations with the latter must be seen, as well an

mortal example of the Finps. which always contain a threat to Hungarian economic inde- Alarm in the Low Countries pendence, by fear for Hungary's Holland and Belgium, have beer political independence should roused us by the tocain. They fear Germany monopolise Hungarian markets, and by the fact that an extremely active and strategic-| ally situated National Socialist movement exists in Hungary.

Next door to Greater Ger- 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-

But it was an exhausted man in. Ho retured in 1919, when Finland Hungary was not coming under tion of either kingdom or both might land the shadow of her hand would civilian clothes who limped into

be Imminent. The Dutch Cabinet fall upon the Lappland Iron-fields. Helsinki when the Brat Provisional had to seck recognition of her new- the yoke of any big Power and held a special meeting inst Sunday,

Government of the new State, just status from the world; when, too, hor- in satisfying at least one big Milltary leave was cancelled in buta countries. All measures were takea

born of the Grand Duchy, was in people were starving. Power that Hungary was for instant resistance.

session.

With Mannerheim come foodships- pursuing no foreign

policy "Free or Die"

Mannerheim. wha well received the food-ships which saved the adverse to that larger country's

anything except the mastery of but his utterances sounded mono- country." interests.

In Brussels additional troops were Rumanian oll, called up to the number of nearly

In that year Mannerheim became. Should Britain's guarantees be 40,000. Practically Belgium is on a Stalin's Test

"We must get the Bolshevik army Arst President of the Republle, Since- extended

then he has remained her Strong. they war-footing, with nearly 700,000 men to Hungary,

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

Man.. would cover two States which

had the cards in his hands. "He “and we must never let the Germans have a territorial dispute be The Dutch are determined, not to hold all the trumps. He seemed the in." tween them. Hungary demands fall below the unyielding spirit of most astute player alive. Then, in the flush of "assurance, he lost his the return of Transylvania from when liberty was won. One Finland acumen and fumbled his cards. Rumania. Possibly na guaran- mákes mány.." tor of both States against a

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Moscow would never be allowed to possess them. Germany Is the chief buyer of the Swedish ore, und covets control of that resource more than

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tonous.

So they told him to get on with first job, and Mannerheim

Although seventy-three, he has the bearing of a man in the fiction. His hair remains plentiful and iron grey, his cyce, of the light; hard bluo of: northern skies, are clear and

steady. And in spite of the fact that Man

third party's threat, Britain No doubi is now left that both the but this is worse--since the Napoleon turned his back once more on the nerbelm's methods, when he lost.

There has been no such blunder-the

of Tilsit began to defeat himself by despising Portugal.

may unwlitingly acquire the the death it either is assalled,

Low Countries will stand together to role of umpiro between them. This should, however, be hardly. Nazi submarines attack Notlierlands It is certain that Stalin was misled less embarrassing than Gor-shipping with peculiar brutality, by false advice Why should he not many's new position between this is meant to intimidate, the effect settle with Finland and Scandinavia? Russia and anti-Comintern a people with the Auzo; and Why should the autocrat of all the Traditions of the Dutch has been the Russias become lubbentrop' monkey? Japan.

oppoilte,

granite capital.

drove the Russians out of Finland,) That was in the late autumn of carned him the title of the "bloody- 1917, when Finland's day- fabut a exccullaner," Finland sees in him a, few hours and her darkness has peer of Garibaldi and Simon Bolivar something of the terror of an eternal and is consolidated under her strong night, den **- Mannerheim had to work in secret, She is well content to do mo.

man.