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Three Germanys

Most people outside of Germany, and no doubt many inside, know the Nazí officials for what they are,

a horde of blatant careerists who make a living out of the "cause" and have made a good thing of it. They have inherited or taken up the Imperialistic spirit which has long been a German characteristic, but they are a different type of men from those who plunged the world into war twenty-five years

ago.

An Austrian who is now a

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Grandad

gave a pledge

to Sweden

By Ronald Matthews

HAVE Just been reading a treaty.

It is a treaty between Britain and France on one hand and Sweden on the other.

And by it Britain and France bind themselves to defend the Integrity of Sweden against Russia.

"Should the Russian Govern-

afmed at securing... the cession of any territory belonging to the "Government undertakes to com- Swedish Government the Swedish municate such demands immed ately to the British and French Governments.

refugee in London draws a shampment," It lays down, "make to the line of distinction between the Swedish Government any demands two. It WAR the imperialistic mentality of the ruling classes of Prussia--before-1914, ho says, which was the principal reason for the outbreak of the Great War. It is again a ruling minority which has brought about this second disaster, but now the prominent leaders of the Nazi party, as well as its moat ardent adherents, the lower nearly all belong to middle-class, There are far too many middle-class people striving for the so-called better jobs, and their onvy of this country is partly due to the opportunities which the Empire gives to young men of their class.

care

"The British and French Gov- ernments, for their part, under- take to furnish the Bwedish Gov- ernment with naval and military forces... for the purpose of resisting the aggression of Rus- sta."

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You rub your eyes. Another Allied guarantee, you may say, and not the least whisper of it to Par- lament?

Let me relieve you. I read this treaty, not in the secret archives of the Foreign Omce, but in the British Museum.

In

On the other hand, the German workmen and peasants

And I have permitted myself

little simplifications nothing about Empire-building. three

translating its French text. Therefore if war is to be averted

In the place of "the Swedish in the future, government must be Government" was written "the placed in the hands of the peace

King of Sweden and Norway," in loving masses, and the imperialistment," Her Majesty the Queen of the place of "the British Govern- minority must be convinced that the United Kingdom "; and in the they are unfit to govern

other place of "the French Govern- people.

ment" was written "His Majesty the Emperor of the French.”

Another contributor to this con- troversy la Dr. Edwyn Bevan, He says that there are not two factors in Germany, the Nazi Government and the German people. There are three factors; first, the ruling Nazis, who hate freedom and trample on the weak. They oxist- ed long before the rise of Hitler, The second element is

really civilised and liberal in feeling and outlook. If this element came into control again wo might have Gormany which would bo a friendly and helpful member of a fellowship of nations,

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For the Treaty of Stockholm. drawn up when Victoria was Queen of England, Napoleon III Sweden ani Norway were united Emperor of Franco, and when

under a common crown, signed on November 21, 1855.

It sounds in our cars, for all that, with a curious familiarity to- day.' Bo do even the circum- stances of its arrangement. the trouble that had led the Swedish king to seek his guaran- tee in 1855 was trouble on the border of Finland.

For

Britain and France were allies

var. That did not interest the King of Sweden so much. | worries had started with a dispute over the habits of a migratory tribe of Laps, who were accus- tomed to pasture their. reindeer alternately on one side and on the other of the Norwegian-Finnish frontier.

The third element, probably the then, of course, in the Crimean bulk of the German people, is a docile and credulous masa, ensily swayed by the Government in power. If the Nazi Government ware replaced by a liberal one, the docilo mass might quite well sup- port It; for one characteristic of this mass is to bo Inclined to think that alde right which actually comes out on the top.

The Russians, who had annexed Finland from Sweden in 1800, complained that the nomado

herds were eating away to devas- tation the rich moss pastures on their side of the border. The dis- cussions, as was even then the Russian habit, dragged an inter- minably. There was an additional question about the right of Rus- slan fishermen to erect buildings in a Norwegian port on the Atlan-· tle that made matters yet more complicated.

Then

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gent Norwegians who spoke of the menace of Russian imperialism.

History, till the common people take charge, has a way of running in the same grooves of nationalist tradition. Forms of government may change, but the same mag- netic objectives continue to exer- cise the same drawing power.

And from the beginnings of Russia's emergence as a modern State, her imperialism had always clashed with the now long dead Imperialism of the Crown ot Sweden.

Their first war broke out as long ago as the end of the fifteenth cen- tury, Its bone of contention the Swedish Empire on the eastern shore of the Baltic sca. The struggle raged at intervals through the sixteenth, when a Swedish ruler was king for a while of Poland, and all but succeeded to the Tsara' throne, too.

It continued in the seventeenth, when Gustavus Adolphus, "the suddenly the Russien Government cracked down. It an-ground on which Leningrad-now--

Lion from Midnight," annexed the nounced that it was going to close the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, The King of Sweden and Norway flew into a panic.

He could not belleve that the mere trifling business of the rein- decrz' moss could have led the Tsar to such a decision. There must be something more behind It. Russia, which had already had one bite at the Scandinavian cherry when she took Finland, obviously wanted another bite. She wanted a Norwegian port, in fact. Bo Oscar I could only turn for aid

I to the Western Powers, then locked in their own struggle with the colossus of the north.

He never had to call on his guarantors. Equally, the threat from Russia which Sweden and Norway fear to-day may never materialise. But it is no new threat to the northern peoples.

Still, in the beginnings of this century, you could talk to intelli-

stands. For Bweden then was a great Power, the champion of the Protestant cause in Europe, the equal in prestige of any of the Continent's kingdoms.

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It flickered down in the eigh- teenth after Charica XII Sweden, his march on Moscow turned back, ад ruinously defeated in the Ukraine.

And then the Russian, tide-the Lido of a Russia crammed into arii- ficial adolescence by Peter the Great-began, to flow west.

It is still flowing, apparently, to- day. The historic pattern seems on the point of repetition.

For the dreary age-old patterns of national enmities and racial struggle, will continue to repeat themselves on the web of time until democracy rules in every land.

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UINTON MCPHERSON

has died,

Does that mean any- thing to you?

No? Then-

Mr. Hymack is dead. Does that mean anything, either?

If the answer again is "No," you are either young, or you havo a short memory, or an important part of your educa-"- tion was neglected.

For, 20 years ago, Mr. Hymack was famous on the music halls. and Mr. Hymack's real name was Quinton McPherson, Under that name his death, aged 09, In Clapham, is now announced by a theatrical paper,

Mr. Hymack's was one of the most originat acts ever seen in variety. I saw it often,

He never spoke, danced or SADE, As he strolled about the stage, doing casual things, the weirdest changes would suddenly happen to his patty clothes.

His blue waistcoat would go yellow. His spats would turn from black to pink, On his topper a vivid green hatband would flash into being. His hands, withdrawn from his pockets, would be in scarlet gloves. Tie, handkerchief and cuffs, all figured in these in- stantaneous magical transforma- tions, at which he seemed as: bewildered as the audience,

How was it dons? Some elaborate system of invisible threads and springs, the secret of which was known only to himself and his tolje, Sho it was who prepared everything before he went on. It. took her over an hour every time. Nothing ever went wrong.

One day she died.

"Mr. Hymack," as an act, ended there and then. Grief-stricken, and robbed of his indispensable help, he lost heart. He vowed no one else would take her place. Nobody ever did.

Work grew scantier. Ill-luck pursued him to the end of his days. Many months ago I met him play. ing an

extra" part for a day in & Jessie Matthews' film on location.

up the Thames.

Now and again there would como a burst of comparative prosperity -some weeks on tour or a series of film-studio

calis."

From time to time, friends would urge him to revive the act — the Chameleon Comedian, as it used to be billed.

He always retused.

Now he is dead-forgotten by so many of those ho amused and mystified, and less than a name to the new generation.

He was one of the last, and cor- talaly the most unusual, of the "quick-change

"artists, followers. of Frogoll, Ugo Blondi and R. An Roberts.

Does anyone know his secret". evou to-day? Did he ever disclose- his methods, even after he had die carded them?: I wonder.