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SÍTHELASTA

M.S.S.R

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SWEDEN

FINLAND

U.S.S.R

"From Gotland, German bonsbers could command the whole southern- half of Sweden with case. And it stands directly opposite the new Russ-- ian bases at Libau, and Wendau,

(3)

one ready to hand, Centuries LL the world over the Аn a military proposition a northern Norway.

Indeed, this factor might be ago its capital Visby was a Ger-. on Sweden attention

the Russo-German war

would present no great difficul- derisive in influencing Hitler in man commercial scaport. That is peoples

turned

ties. The Swedish Army is favour of the Swedish invasion. was in the Hanseatic days. In towards Scandinavia. They

'numerous than

There is, of course, Visby you can still sec- ask one another, What is Danes or Norwegians, better

yet another pos- But Hitler never needs an ex- going to happen to. the armed, but not so well trained. sibility.

cuse! Scandinavian democracies It is weak in tanks and strong Hitler may be content to

Taking Gotland would certain- in the next few days? in artillery. It has the ad- leave Sweden as a neutral sphere ly be a good strategic move for Plainly, the invasion of Nor- vantage of a self-contained arms between himself and Stalin, the Germans. But it would not way by a large German army industry capable of supplying and, at the same time, to occupy be a great Hitler coup worthy brings the peril of war nearer the fully mobilised man power the Swedish island of Gotland

of half a million.

as an air and fleet base. to Sweden's frontiers than it

to hold its place in the series. with Austria and Prague and

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fighting men cannot be assessed. dle of the Baltic. In German his people by another cheap The old confidence of the It is more than a century since hands it would be a direct coun- triumph, the Swedish carve-up. Swedes in the permanence of they fought. One they were ter to Stalin's successive swoops, would fill the bill in a way that their neutrality and indepen- good enough. And, in the war which

have penned Hitler's dence has been replaced by for Finland's life and liberty, fleet into the western Baltic, no mere island-jumping could

the Swedish Finns were as fiery rousing the rage of the admirals achieve. warriors as the Finnish Finns,

grave anxieties.

There are three possible fates before Sweden to-day :----

(1) She may escape sea.

nt Kiel.

the

So a joint invasion of Sweden. A German attack on Sweden would have to come across

Flat and treeless, Gotland seems the likeliest sequel to the The Swedes expect that could easily be made an import- invasion of Norway. But what- German landing would take ant air centre. From it Ger- ever form the sequel takes, it is

bombers could command place on Swedish soil

safe to assume that it has al- the whole southern half of Malmio..

Sweden with case. And the ready been determined. As the German fleet com- island stands directly opposite All that happens in the Baltic

attack by Germany a

and Russia altogether.

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

near man

hundred

GERMANY has invaded Den- mark, with whom she has a Pact of Non-Aggression. She has invaded Norway, whose only But there are some Swedes who mands the Baltic this should the new Russian bases at Libau unfolds itself as part of an agreed programme of conquest crime is that she desired, above still believe that the ambitions not be an impossible undertak- and Windau, just a

and greeds of the unleashed ing. It would certainly be much miles away.

harder for the British Navy to If Hitler wants an excuse arranged by Ribbentrop when dictatorships will pass them by interfere at this point than in for grabbing the place, he has he went to Moscow in August.

all else, to remain neutral in this war in Europe. The Nazis have occupied the whole of Denmark and are unleashing against another democratic na- tion the full force of their might.

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 mine-fields in Norwegian waters and, in any case, what has that got to do with Denmark?

#

Germany may establish her-

self in Norway without going any further.

The purpose of such an attack would be to realise an old dream 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.

transgressing Swedish frontier.

one

LUXEMBOURG HAS NO

IF

DEFENCES

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

see why the Duchy of Luxem- get some of it, bourg has also a very good reason to be anxious.

defences. position,

The Maginot Line!

r

under

HOLLAND

•Reierdan

Brussels Lege

BELGIUM

Essen

Cologne

GERMANY

WESTERN

FRONT

Saarbrucken

FRANCE

Nancy

Mulhouse

Basle WITZERLAND

Holding Narvik Hitler would It is have complete control of the

ter, and when Napoleon's return) turns west. The Stegtried Line runs Germany who has sought the Swedish ore export without of runs up to her southern border, then I was a useful bargaining coun- from Elba speeded up the negotin- yorl of to her east. Luxembourg has no

tions King William of Holland agreed excuses for this rape; Germany

It is an uncomfortablej

to surrender his Nassaus possessions who has worked up the cam-

in Germany to the King of Prussia¦ paign about the so-called Allied

A German attack on Norway

And if you look again at the map while the Duchy of Luxembourg was to become his own hereditary sover- intentions; Germany who has re- certainly alarm. the Swedes.

you may well wonder why there

eign possession. But the Duchy was m ported imaginary "incidents"; But the Swedes have already should exist an independent sover to be one of the States of the Ger- LUXEMBOURG, PLAY

Confederation,

the Duc with 300,000 Germany who broke the non-been alarmed by the Russian eign State in this odd position, shut manic

town of INHABITANTS. aggression pact which she had attack on

And what in between France,

and gls of Prussia, and the Finland.

Germany

and helpless. Luxembourg was to be a Prussian, signed; Germany who brushed have they done? Nothing to Belgium, unfortified

fortress.

Prusslu had a very good reason contemptuously aside the Nor- bring a furrow to Stalin's brow. To find the explanation you have

to go back some way.

for keeping military control

of accept Luxembourg in exchange for wegian and Danish protests.

Luxembourg. The fortress there

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

and

Obstacle insuperable an

Belgium refused, but William, Lof those small feudal States that French invasion of Germany along vaguely encouraged by Bismarck, were regarded as the personal pro- that famillor route.

was prepared to negotiate, and the perty of their rulers and changed The Belgian revolution of 1830 Prince of Orange was sent to Paris out-hands with bewildering frequency against Dutch domination threaten for that purpose.

on the occasion of births, deaths ed to upset this arrangement, so and marriages in the ruling family convenient for Prussie. But as soon Luxembourg · emerges from this as Leopold, King of the newly-created

Never in the history of aggrea- (2) Sweden may be in-

sion have small nations offered

act.

been

For the,

*

to

*

came out into the open and an--

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.

This seems the likeliest as German foreign come of the northern war. As far policy is concerned, the invasion

Both Hitler and Stalin dislike of Denmark and Norway marks the end of an epoch. The Nazi Sweden. Hitler hates it because hazy state at the Treaty of Augs Independent Belgium, signed the A WEEK later Bismarck suddenly

burg in 1540, when the 17 provinces treaty which made Luxembourg part propaganda must change; every it is a democracy; that is too the Netherlands (of which Luxem of Belgium, King William of Holland nounced that the cession of Luxem thing the Nazis have claimed about their intentions towards say, degenerate. Stalin because bourg was one) were recognised as sent his armies over the frontier and bourg was equivalent to a declara- a political unity and were declared only French Intervention saved Bel- tion of war with Prussia, Napoleon. III., off his guard and unready for it is socialistic.

gium from complete conquest.

call the deal off. A their neighbours hos

"free and independent."

war, had to ☆

treaty was forthwith drawn

up and brought to naught by this latest Nothing surely can be more This did not mean very much.

signed in London which created however, as it entailed Hitle more To Denmark, in her ordeal, offensive to the new Czar of the than the transference from a smaller FINALLY, under pressure, Leopold Luxembourg in its present form. It

wider allegiance, n

agreed that Luxembourg, now was to be henceforth a State per- the world can offer little but Soviets than the insolent axis-to condolence. But the forces of tence of this humane and Netherlands were under the rule of reformed with part of the Belgian petually neutral, under the collective

the Hapsburgs

first the Spanish province of Limburg, should remain guarantee of the signatory Powers" decency and order will soon be efficient example of a mild social-branch, then the Austrian. This Germanie 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 sia).

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

The next change come in 1880, fortress and destroy . To this day- mination in Norway. Not until Hitler would take over the in-us the Austrian Netherlands, although that struggle is decided can dustrialised regions of the Boath there was never anything Spanish when the war between Prussia and no milltary force may be maintained

or Austrian about them.

Austria 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- sion upon peaceful countries.

with Germany bourg's ties make himself master of the Napoleonic wars, dering which therefore considered that Luxem-ay, totally unarmed (the army num- were bers 500), sandwiched between the The ordeal of fire through also

Prussia thought otherwise two broken.

greatest military forces the which the Scandinavian coun- Sweden's foreign investments, France and incorporated into the and maintained their garrison in the world has ever known. In 1914 she

fortress,

was invaded by Germany and offered trles are now passing should be which amount to at least £150,- Republic.

She knows that it WDS Bismarck

playing very no resistance. a warning to all neutral coun-000,000,

When the French armies were trica. A bundle of sticks taken

driven out in 1814, the Dutch nc subtle and, by most standarde, may happen again, any day now. As his share of the Swedish claimed the Prince of Orange as dirty game. By vague promises he However, for all the surrounding somo breaking; a solitary stick can be anapped without dif-awag. Stalin woul take the ore their ruler. This was supported by had led Napoleon III, to believe that atmosphere of war this tiny coun- Prussia. But when it France might expect some territorial con-- ficulty. Unless the smaller na-region in the north, one Britain tions net la coure eller net richest prizes oruiting of the was, suggested that Holland dhould Compensation for her recognition of try, a little larger than Dorset,

receive an "increase of territory" Prussin's supremacy in Germony, So 1! Js nn uncomfortable position. simultaneously, they are in dan-queror in Europe. With Swe- and take in what is now Belgium, in 1807 the French Government sug- ger of being attacked and den's iron in one pocket and Fin- Prussin onrefully left open the ques-gested to King William of Holland, But Luxembourg has survived one destroyed one by one, no events land'a nickel in the other Stalin tim of the provinces on her border, Duke of Luxembourg, that he might war; there is no reason

including Luxembourg. Prussia want- sell Luxembourg for five

At the same time it was of the past, 48 hours have shown would be able to declare a big the whole of the territory be francs.

dividend on his little warO. all too well.

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

stopping this perpetual aggres-arsenn! at Bofors. He might existenke for Luxembourg came after the Germanic Confederation. France||

the Netherlands had been overrun by

million

should not survive another.

why sho:

Donald Hodson