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Sweden...

A

LL the world over the As a military proposition a attention of the Russo-German war on Sweden peoples is turned would present no great difficul- ties. The Swedish Army is towards Scandinavia. They

more numerous than the ask one another, What is

Danes or Norwegians, better going to happen to the armed; but not so well trained. Scandinavian democracies It is weak in tanks and strong in the next few days?

in artillery. It has the ad-

"From Gotland, German bombers could command the whole southern Sweden helf of

with ease. And it stands directly op- parite the new Russian

Libau dau..

at babes aruz Wen-

MUON

* SWEDEN

GERMANY

U.S.S.R

northern Norway.

one ready to hand. Centuries. Indeed, this factor might be ago its capital Visby was a Ger- decisive in influencing Hitler in man commercial seaport. That favour of the Swedish invasion. was in the Hanseatic days. In

sibility.

(3) There is, of course, Visby you can still sec

yet another pos-

But Hitler never needs an ex--

Plainly, the invasion of Nor- vantage of a self-contained arms Hitler may be content to cuge! way by a large German army industry capable of supplying leave Sweden as a neutral sphere Taking Gotland would certain--

himself brings the peril of war nearer the fully mobilised man power between

and Stalin, ly be a good strategic move for to Sweden's frontiers than it of half a million.

and, at the same time, to occupy the Germans. But it would not the Swedish island of Gotland be a great Hitler coup worthy has been for many a year.

The quality of the Swedes as

to hold its place in the series. The old confidence of the fighting men cannot be assessed, as an air and Teet base.

Gotland is smack in the mid- with Austria and Prague and Swedes in the permanence of It is more than a century since

dle of the Baltic. In German Poland. If Hitler has to dazzle they fought. One they were THE prefix "special to the Telegraph their neutrality and indepen- good enough. And, in the war hands it would be a direct, coun- his people by another cheap dence has been replaced by for Finland's life and liberty, ter to Stalin's successive swoops, triumph, the Swedish carve-up

have penned Hitler's which the Swedish Finns were as fiery

would fill the bill in a way that grave anxieties.

fleet into the western Baltic,

mere island-jumping could There are three possible fates warriors as the Finnish Finna,.

A. German attack on Sweden rousing the rage of the admirals

achieve. before Sweden to-day :-

would have to come across the at Kiel.

Flat and treeless, Gotland

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To the outsider this seems the most improbable of the three.

on

no

So a joint invasion of Sweden.

(1) She may escape sea. The Swedes expect that

attack by Germany a German landing would take could easily be made an import- seems the likellest sequel to the

place

soil near ant air centre. From it Ger- invasion of Norway. But what- Swedish and Russia altogether.

man bombers could command ever form the sequel takes, it is Malmo.. GERMANY has invaded Den-

the whole southern half of safe to assume that it has al- mark, with whom she has a

As the German fleet com- Sweden with ease. And the ready been determined. Pact of Non-Aggression. She

All that happens in the Baltic has invaded Norway, whose only But there are some Swedes who mands the Baltic this should island stands directly opposite

and Windau, just a hundred agreed programme of conquest crime is that she desired, above still believe that the ambitions not be an impossible undertak- the new Russian bases at Libnu unfolds itself as part of an all else, to remain neutral in this and greeds of the unleashed ing. It would certainly be much miles away..

arranged by Ribbentrop when harder for the British Navy to If Hitler wants an excuat war in Europe. The

Nazis dictatorships will pass them by interfere at this point than in for grabbing the place, he has he went to Moscow in August. have occupied the whole of

Germany may establish her- Denmark and are unleashing

self in Norway without going against another democratic na- tion the full force of their any further. might.

The purpose of such an attack would be to realise an old dreamt Narvik, terminus of the electri- fied railway across Lapland, would be a most useful port. It is the winter outlet for the Swedish iron ore.

ore

One

LUXEMBOURG

DEFENCES

HAS No

ter, and when Napoleon's return export without runs up to her southern border, then I was a useful bargaining coun-

turns west. The Siegfried Line runs of yard

to her east. Luxembourg has no from Elba speeded up the negotia- defences. It is an uncomfortable ons King William of Holland agreed

to surrender his Nassau possession position,

in Germany to the King of Prussia while the Duchy of Luxembourg wos to become his own hereditary sover- eign possession. But the Duchy was

Confederation, under thej

town of

HOLLAND_

Rosterdam Essen

The excuses put forward to justify this latest Nazi crime will not bear moment's scrutiny. It is quite evident that all the plans were prepared long-before-Britain-laid-its

F-you look at the map you will the Rhine, and was determined to

see why the Duchy of Luxem-kel some ̃or it,~~~- mine-fielda in Norwegian waters and, in any case, what has that Holding Narvik Hitler would bourg has also a very good reason The Maginot Line got to do with Denmark? It is have complete control of the to be anxious. Germany who has sought the Swedish excuses for this rape; Germany | transgressing who has worked up the cam- Swedish frontier. paign about the so-called Allied A German attack on Norway intentions; Germany who has re- certainly alarm the Swedes.

And if you look again at the map why there ported Imaginary "incidents": But the Swedes have already you may well wonder Germany who broke the non- been alarmed by the Russian should exist an independent sover to be one of the States of the Ger- LUXEMBURG, 2

elga State in this odd position, shut manic aggression pact which she had attack on Finland. signed; Germany who brushed contemptuously aside the Nor- wegian and Danish protesta. Never in the history of aggres-

Sweden may be in- sion have small nations offered

vaded. She may be less justification for the brutal attacked by Russia or Germany, assault. than has been launched upon little Denmark and its even divided between them. Scandinavian neighbour.

As for as German foreign policy is concerned, the invasion

of Denmark and Norway marks

GERMANY

WESTERN

Cologne

Brussels

BELGIUM

Liege

FRONT

Saarbrucken

FRANCE

Strasbourg

Nancy

Mulhouse

Prussi

for Lux

Prussia had a

very good reason military

control keeping

of accept Luxembourg in exchange for- Luxembourg. The fortress there

WITZERLAND

and egls of Prussia, and the And what in between France, Germany Luxembourg was to be a Prussian have they done? Nothing to Belgium. unfortified and helpless bring a furrow to Stalin's brow. To and the explanation you have

This seems the likeliest come of the northern war.

to go back some way.

חני

DUCKT WITH 300.000 LAMABITANTS.

of those small feudal States that and

French invasion of Germany along vaguely encouraged by Bismarck..

on the occasion of

So

*

was considered to be the second the territory lost by Franco to her UXEMBOURG was originally one strongest in Europe, after Gibraltar, in 1814.

Insuperable obstacle to Belgium refused, but William.- were regarded as the personal pro-that famillar route.

was prepared to negotiate, and the perty of their rulers and changed

1030 of The Belgian revolution

Prince of Orange was sent to Paris. out-hands with bewildering frequency against Dutch domination threaten for that purpose.

deaths ed to birilis, and marriages in the ruling family.ed to upset this arrangement,

convenient for Prusale. But as soon Luxembourg emerges from this

King of the newly-created Leopold,

the huzy state at the Treaty of Augs-independent Belgium, signed burg In 1548, when the 17 provinces treaty which made Luxembourg part of the Netherlands (of which Luxem of Belgium, King William of Holland nounced that the cession of Luxem- bourg was one) were recognised as sent his armies over the frontier and bourg was equivalent to a declara- political unity and were declared only French intervention saved Bel- tion of war with Prussia. Napoleon:

III., off his guard and gium from complete conquest. "Irce and independent."

war, had to call the deal treaty was forthwith drawn up and

Both Hitler and Stalin dislike the end of an epoch. The Nazi Sweden. Hitler hates it because propaganda must change; every-

it is a democracy; that is to thing the Nazis have claimed about their intentions towards say, degenerate. Stalin because their neighbours has been it is socialistic. brought to naught by this latest act.

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This did not mean very much.

however, as it entailed little more

WEEK Inter Bismarck suddenly came out into the open and an--

for

3.A.

signed in London which created

Nothing surely can be more To Denmark, in her ordeal. offensive to the new Czar of the

to 理 wider allegiance. For the agreed that Luxembourg, now was to be henceforth a State per- the world can offer little but Soviets than the insolent exis- the transference from a smaller FINALLY, under pressure, Leopold Luxembourg in its present form condolence. But the forces of tence this humane and Netherlands were under the rule of reformed with part of the Belgian petually neutral, under the collective:

Hapsburg, first the Spanish province of Limburg, should remain guarantee of the senatory decency and order will soon be efficient example of a mild social-branch, then the

Six years Inter (France, Great Britain, Russia, Pru£-- Austrian. This o Germanie State.

German sin), locked in a grim struggle with ised capitalism.

group of small States thus came to Luxembourg entered the

Prussia agreed to evacuate tho - be known as the Spanish and then Customs Union. the forces of brutality and do-

The next change came in 1806 fortress and destroy it. To this day mination in Norway. Not until Hitler would take over the in- as the Austrian Netherlands, although that struggle is decided can dustrialised regions of the south there was never anything Spanish when the war between Prussin and no military force may be maintained

or Austrian about them.

Austrin resulted in a quick victory in the city of Luxembourg except. there be any effective means of and centre, including the famous.

The first hint of an independent for Prussia and the dissolution of for the maintenance of order.

And so you find this country to-- stopping this perpetual aggres- arsenal at Bofors. He might existence for Luxembourg came after the Germanie Confederation. France slon upon peaceful countries.

between the bers 500), sandwiched The ordeal of fire through also make himself master of the Napoleonic ware, dering which therefore considered that Luxem- day, totally unarmed (the army un

the Netherlands had been overrun by bourg's ties with Germany

Prussia thought otherwise

two greatest milltary forces the the broken.

In 1014 sho and maintained their garrison in the world has ever known. which the Scandinavian coun- Sweden's foreign investments, France and incorporated into tries are now passing should be which amount to at least £150,- Republic.

fortress.

was invaded by Germany and offered:

She knows that it a warning to all neutral coun- | 000,000,

very no resistance. the French armies were When

Bismarck was playing

ajmay

happen again, any day now. tries. A bundle of sticks takes

driven out in 1814, the Dutch ne- subtle and, by most standards,

}

receive an "Increase

were

Government sug-

some breaking; a solitary stick As his share of the Swedish claimed the Prince of Orange a dirty game. By vague promises he However, for all the surrounding can be snapped without dif- swag, Stalin would take the ore their ruler. This was supported by hind led Napoleon III, to believe that atmosphere of war this tiny coun-

But when it France might expect some territorial try, a little larger than Dorset, con-- ficulty. Unless the smaller na-region in the north, one of the Britain and Prussia.

Germany. So tions act in concert and act richeat prizes awaiting a con- was suggested that Holland should compensation for her recognition of tinues her quiet industrious life.

of territory" Prussia's zupremacy in 1

It is an uncomfortable position... simultaneously, they are in dan-queror in Europo. With Swe- and take in what is now Belgium. in 1867 the ger of being attacked und den's iron in one pocket and Fin- Prussia carefully left open the ques-gested to King William of Holland But Luxembourg. has survived one

five million alould not survive another. destroyed one by one, as events land's nickel in the other Stalin tion of the provinces on her border, Duke of Luxembourg, that he might war: there is no reason why sho

including Luxembourg. Prussin want cell Luxembourg for

At the same time it was

Hodson: of the past 48 hours have shown would be able to declare a big ed the whole of the territory be francs..

dividend on his little

tween the Meuse, the Moselle andsuggested to Belgium that she might Donald

all too well.

wars.