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LL the world over the As a military proposition a attention of the Russo-German war on Sweden

moro numerous than the

peoples is turned would present no great difficul- towards Scandinavia. They ties. The Swedish Army is Danes or Norwegians, better ask one another, What is 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 bombera could command the whole #outhern Sweden half of with case. And it stands directly op-. pasite the new

Russian bases at Libau and Wen- dau..

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SWEDEN

GERMANY'

U.S.S.R

U.S.S.R

northern Norway.

one ready to hand. Centuries Indeed, this factor might be ago its capital Visby was a Gor-.

ended, this factor might be ago ite favour of the Swedish invasion. man commercial scaport. That was in the Hanseatle days. In (3) There is, of course,

yet another pos- Visby you can átill 800———

sibility.

But Hitler növer needs an ex-

Plainly, the invasion of Nor- vantage of a self-contained arms Hitler may be content to cuse! way by a large German army industry capable of supplying leave Sweden as a neutral sphere Taking Gotland would certain- brings the peril of war nearer the fully mobilised man power between himself and Stalin, ly be a good strategic move for to Sweden's frontiers' than it of half a million.

und, 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 ghting men cannot be assessed. as an air and fleet 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 their neutrality and indepen- good enough. And, in the war

they fought. One they were hands it would be a direct coun- his people by another cheap indicate news which is strictly copyright dence has been replaced by for Finland's life and liberty, ter to Stalin's successive swoops, triumph, the Swedish carve-up.

penned Hitler's the Swedish Finns were as fiery fleet into the western Baltic,

Thursday, April 11, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong Telephone: 28615

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have which

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So a joint invasion of Sweden..

would fill the bill in a way that no mere island-jumping could There are three possible fates Warriors as the Finnish Finns. before Sweden to-day-

A German attack on Sweden rousing the rage of the admirals

achieve. at Kiel. would have to come across the

Flat and treeless, Gotland She may escape sen. The Swedes expect that attack by Germany u German landing would take could casily be made an import- seems the likellest sequel to the ant air centre. From it Ger- invasion of Norway. But what- and Russia altogether.

place

on Swedish

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

To the outsider this seems the

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

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

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

harder for the British Navy to If Hitler wants

arranged by Ribbentrop when war in Europe. The Nazis dictatorships will pass them by. have occupied the whole of

interfere at this point than in for grabbing the place, he has he went to Moscow in August. Germany muy establish her- Denmark and are unleashing **◄ | against another democratic na-self in Norway without going

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The excuses put forward to justify this latest Nazi crime

will not bear

The purpose of such an attack would be to realise an old dream Narvik, terminus of the electri £ moment's fed railway across. Lapland, scrutiny. It is quite evident that would be a most useful port. It all the plans were prepared

is the winter outlet for the long before Britain laid its Swedish iron ore. mine-fields in Norwegian waters

20 excuse

LUXEMBOURG HAS NO

DEFENCES

I TF you look at the map you will the Rhine,~-and-was-determined-10

see why the Duchy of Luxem- get some of it,

was a useful bargaining coun

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

ter, and when Napoleon's return ore export without runs up to her southern border, then T

turna west. The Siegfried Line runs excuses for this rape; Germany | transgressing one yard of

Luxembourg has no from Eiba speeded up the negotia- to her cast. who has worked up the cam- Swedish frontier.

lefences.

It is an uncomfortable tlone King William of Holland agreed

to surrender his Nassau possession paign about the so-called Allied

in Germany to the King of Prussia A German attack on Norway position.. intentions; Germany who has re-certainly alarm the Swedes. And if you look again at the map while the Duchy of Luxembourg was ported imaginary "incidents"; But the Swedes have alreadyhould exist an independent sover to be one of the States of the Ger- you may well wonder why there to become his own hereditary sover- eign possession. But the Duchy was Germany who broke the non-

been alarmed by the Russian eign State in this odd position, shut manic Confederation, under the aggression pact which she had

Finland. And what in between France, Germany attack on

and regis of Prussia, and the town of signed; Germany who brushed have they done? Nothing to Belgium, unfortified and helpless Luxembourg was to be a Prussion contemptuously aside the Nor-bring a furrow to Stalin's brow. To find the explanation you have fortress.

wegian and Danish protests, Never in the history of aggres- sion have small nations offered

to go back some way.

HOLLANDA

•Rosterdam

Brussels Liege

BELGIUM

Essen

Cologne

GERMANY

WESTERN

FRONT

Saaronecken

FRANCE

Strasbourg Nancy

LUXEMBOURG. Der DUCHY WITH 300,000 INHABITANIS,

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„SNITZERLAND

Prussia had a very good renson for iceeping military control of accept Luxembourg in exchange for | Luxembourg,

The

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

of those small feudal States that and an insuperable obstacle to Belgium refused, but William,- were regarded as the personal pro-French invasion of Germany along vaguely encouraged by Bismarck, perty of their rulers and changed that familiar route.

was prepared to negotiate, and the The Belgian revolution of out-hands with bewildering trequency

1830 Prince of Orange was sent to Parts. on the ocension of births, deaths against Dutch domination threaten for that purpose.

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

convenient for Prussia. But as soon Luxembourg emerges from thius Leopold, King of the newly-created by state at the Treaty of Auga-independent Belgium, signed

Sweden may be in- 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. Zero Scandinavian neighbour.

This seems the likeliest As for as German foreign policy is concerned, the invasion come of the northern war. of Denmark and Norway marks 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

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the

came out into the open and an--

nounced that the cession of Luxem-- burg in 1548, when the 17 provinces treaty which made Luxembourg part A: WEEK later Bismarck suddenly 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 Belton of war with Prussia. Napoleon. "free and independent."

gium from complete conquest.. III., off his guard and unready for war, had to call the deal off. A This did not mean

very much,

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treaty was forthwith drawn up and however, as it entailed little more

signed in London which created To Denmark, in her ordeal, offensive to the now Czar of the than the transference from a smaller FINALLY, under pressure, Leopold Luxembourg in its present form. It

10 д wider allcglance. the world can offer little but Sovicts than the insolent exi8 Netherlands were under the rule of reformed with part of the Belgianį petually neutral, under the collective.

and the Hapsburgs,

nct.

Nothing surely can be more

into

the

For the agreed that Luxembourg, now was to be "henceforth State per-- condolence. But the forces oftence of this humane decency and order will soon be eficient example of a mild social-branch, then the

first the Spanish province of Limburg, should remain guarantee of the signatory Powers" Austrian. This a Germanic State. Six years later (France, Great Britain; Russia, PruS- locked in a grim struggle with ised capitalism.

group of small States thus came to Luxembourg entered the German ala). the forces of brutality and do.

be known as the Spanish and then Customs Union.

Prussia agreed to evacuate the- as the Austrian Netherlands, although mination in Norway. Not until Hitler would take over the in- there was never anything Spanish when the war between Prusala andi no military force may be maintained The next change came In 1000 fortress and destroy it. To this day that struggle is decided can dustrialised regions of the south or Austrian about them. there be any effective means of and centre, including the famous

Austria resulted in a quick victory in the city of Luxembourg except. stopping this perpetual aggres- arsenal at Bofors. He might existence for Luxembourg came after therefore considered that Luxem- day, totally unarmed (the army num

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

the Germanic Confederation. France And so you find this country to sion upon peaceful countries.

the Napoleonic wars, dering which ties The ordeal of fire through also make himself master of the Netherlands had been overrun by burg's with Germany were bers 500), sandwiched between the

Prussia thought otherwise two greatest military forces France and Incorporated which the Scandinavian coun-Sweden's foreign investments,

Republic.

the and mol

and -maintained their Larrison in the world has ever known. In 1014 sho trics are now passing should be which amount to at least £150,--

fortress.

was invaded by Germany and offered: a warning to all neutral coun- | 000,000,

wero Bismarck was playing a very no realstance. She knows that it tries. A bundle of sticks takes

driven out in 1814, the Dutch nc subtle and, by most standards, may happeningain, ony day "now, some breaking; a solitary stick

As his share of the Swedish claimed the Prince of Orange dirty game, By vague promises he

However, for all the surrounding. can be snapped without dit swag, Stalin would take the ore their ruler. This was supported by hand led Napoleon III. to believe that atmosphere of war this tiny coun-

Britain and Prussia. ficulty: Unless the smaller na region in the north, one of the was suggested that Holland should compensation for her recognition of tinues her quiet industrious life.

But which France might expect some territorial try, a little larger than Dorset, con-- tions net in concert and act richest prizes awaiting a con- receive an "Increase

It is simultaneously, they are in dan queror in Europe. With Swe- and take in what is now Belgium, in 1867 the French Government sug But Luxembourg has survived one

of territory" Prussia's supremacy in Germany. So Prussia ger of being attacked and dén's fron in one pocket and Fin-ion of the provinces on her border Duke of Luxembourg, that he might war; thero is no reason

carefully left open the ques- gested to King William of Holland nickel in the other Stalin

Ave million should not survive another. of the past 48 hours have shown would be able to declare a big ed the whole of the territory be- franca, At the same time it was

dividend on his little wars. tween the Meure, the Moselle andsuggested to Belgium that the might Donald Hodson

all too well.

*

When the French armies

an uncomfortable position..

why she