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Monday,

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HUNGARY

SLAVONIA

BAILES

BELGRADE

YUGO

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the intensity of Nazi

I forts at the slow infiltra-

tion of Yugo-slavin is any in- dication of the nearness of that country's fate to that of Holland and Belgium, it may only be a matter of a few weeks before Hitler trumps up an excuse for marching in to protect that country from the Allies.

For the past three years the Germans have doubled and re- doubled their efforts to perfect the network of spies that infests every department of life in Yugo-Slavia to-day. On each successive journey to this country I have observed with growing horror and admira- tion the organisation of the Ger- mans' spy rig

Unless you land-black hair and un obviously non-Aryan nose, the natural reaction of every member of the hotel staff where I stayed in Belgrade, was to address you in German. I certainly heard more German spoken than Serbian dur- ing the whole time I was there. This was not, as might be assumed, because German is the lingua fran-

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of Yugo-Slavis, but because

a foreigner is more likely to be a German than a member of any other nation.

Before the present war started this German infiltration was mostly done by "visitors" (who made curiously prolonged visits) and by so-called merchants and technical advisers.

Since the war the visitors have been nelther so popular nor so numerous. They now call them- selves "assistant attaches" to the German Legation, or supernumer- ary secretaries in the various con- sulates dolted about the country. There is, of course, the usual ariny "bunkers of technical experts and whose presence in the country is Inevitable as part of the general machinery for German-Yugo-Slav trade relations.

The hotel lift-boy-a good-look- ing young fellow of 14-showed me his heavy silver watch. "Look at

this beautiful present a kind Ger- man gentleman gave me last week," he said with great pride.

"Very nice, too," I replied.

"And it's get a message in it- look!" He opened the watch to show me engraved in the back a tran- slation into Serbian of one of the Hitlerian platitudes about Lebens- raum.

But what does all this mean? Do the Yugo-Slav people like being made the prey of the Germans? No, they hate it.

The memories of their bunduge under the Austro-Hungarian rule are for too vivid to let them forget foreign domination. But because the Germans have mannyed 60 successfully to control the greater part of the commercial life of the -country the Yugo-Slavs have been forced to tolerate every sort of in- terference.

The kingdom of the seven million Serbs, four and a half million Cronts, and half a million Slovenes

"To Commandant,.. WATS. Thank you for sending u18 Pte. 5000281. Frankly, for this job, we were hoping for rather more the Mata-

Hari type.

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also contains half million Germang and many thousands of Magyars, Al- banians and Min- cedoniana.

In

the early years of the Yugo-Slav federation, the Croats were con- ..stanuy nt log- Kerheads with the Serbs, while the Comitadjie of Macedonio made themselves hated and feared in their campaign for Home Rule.

For the moment the Macedonian problem is quiescent, but there is no doubt that it will flare up again. ir nnd when the Bulgarian ter- ritorial claims are ever settled.

Yugo-Slovio had frontiers with seven different countries before Italy seized Albania. One wonders what Marettonia's fate may be if Italy were suddenly to copy Hitler's protective custody precedent and eross this new frontier. Very near the old Albanian frontier are rich

deposits of copper, bauxite and iron. Yugo-Slavia can produce annually 5,000,000 tons of coal, 50,000 tons of copper, 75,000 tonn of lead, 050,000 toni of Iron, as well as chrome, zine and antimony.

In the 1914 conftet the Serbs proved themselves to be fighting men of great courage and almost unbelievable powers of endurance. It remains to be seen whether they will resist the invaders as the Nor- wegians have done, or whether Hller's spy ring will have proved 100 effective.

Whatever the Croats may think about the war, there will surely be In the hearts of the Serbs an un- dying admiration and gratitude to the British for the part we played in fighting side by side with them for the return of their kingdom in the Great War.

the Much will depend upon Croats. It is through their territory that the invader muy come. In the past they have had a raw deaf, but perhaps the present danger will bring together both the Cronts and the Serbs In one common alm-the Independence of Yugo-Slavia from foreign domination.

WARSHIPS OF

. Philip Thornton

June 10, 1940.

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THE WORLD POWERS-2

Dr. RODNEY AVON

puts Child Psychology in its Proper Perspective

LITTLE LIARS

A CHILD may be occasion- ally untruthful, but we need not brand him as a liar. Up to the age of seven or eight children make frequent excur- sions into the realms of phan- tasy, and there they live a life of make-believe.

So it is not very easy to come down to the brass tacks of so-called modern civilisa- tion after that.

We may be certain, that if a boy or girl adopts what might be termed the profession" of estab- lished Har, there has been some- thing for wrong with his early training.

If the whisper goes round the nurseries of the parish that Tommy Tipple is a boy who "tells lies," it Ja his father or mother who should· blush for shame.

In practically all-cases,-the-child- begins his life believing In truth and hating falsity. Circumstances may arise in which he finds out that athers are not so particular as he 15.

"Oho," he says to himself. "

II. a mother should tell her daughter of seven a palpable inlry late about the origin of the baby, and make a clumsy mess of her "explanation" so that the tilo giri goen end winks the other eye, need alio be surprised that history will be twisted to sult the stup

tion when later, in the nursery, some awk- ward contretemps is being "investigated? Romance is not dead.

A boy will tell lies because his experience is that when he stuck to the truth and con- fessed his sins he was punished severely."

Punishment can never be standardized. single smack may be an awful infliction to One boy, while

a good hiding may mean nothing to the next.

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Remember well that the boy starts life with complete confidence in the parents, and If he finds that he is victimised first by del ception, and secondly by unjust treatment. he will have no scruples about twisting the truth,

Training, up a chlid in the way he should go should emphatically have a basis of the selence of psychology in it, but let parents bear in mind that they may not be able to see the wood for trees.

After all, instincts are instincts, and personality is personality, and mothers and fathers would be in- human if they stuck to a routing of Boulless selence. It is the exbibl- tion of the touches of Nature that makes the family kin in the old- established sense.

The psychologist is the physician of the mind, and although the Intter closely allied to the body, there is no need to steal the or- dinary family doctor's thunder and look upon mumps or whooping cough as dependent upon this com- plox or that, Paychology In Insidi- ́ous. You can talk yourself hoarse over it, and in the end you may reach your starting polati

cine bottles at his bedside becomes a hypochondrine; there is little or na difference in the child who has grown in an environment of spocial toys, special games, special school-

alon.

A child brought up in the atmossing and special methods of expres- phere of pilis, powders and medi-

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Therefore it seems that the glowing reaction against "psycholization" in the nursery is a perfectly good and natural one, and entirely characteristic of homo sapiens.

vogue passes, fundamentals remain.

but

Don't forget that a child may, be nervous or out of sorts mentally, because he is growing quickly, and perhaps a little tired of the late Professor, Freud.

And remember, too, that 'Prividence makes men

and women of us eventually, despite all our shortcomings. Therefore, if John and Mary appear to be shining Intel- lectually than others of their

age, don't be too suro that you

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are right as you proudly tell the neighboure what psychotherapy has: done for them,

Perhaps, Indeed, the Indication of this may be that you yourself require the, psychoanalyst. Think it over.

raus Cret

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Five of these craft, each holding renciest rates which will be quoted on between 30 to 40 puddlers, complete with banners and drums, will com- pete for trophies nt West Point about allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank Head Offles in London 4 o'clock this afternoon. The boats undertakes Executor & Trustes bualno. are from Wanchai, Shaukiwan, Kow- and claims recovery of British Incorp loon, and Aberdeen (2).

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