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Iurd by the "longkong Toleran

THE prenx "Spreis to the

ground,

Once more the long- suffering Balkan peoples see

foreign invaders tramping

over lands endowed so rich-

ly by Nature that they could be a paradise on earth-if only they could be left in peace for even one century.

are

What

"the Balkans"? Most of my fellow-countrymen, with their inimitable gift for misunderstanding foreign coun- tries, think vaguely of "the Bal. kans" as a remote region soine- where in the South of Europe inhabited by incorrigibly war- like peoples.

This is the reputation a tragic and lovely part of Europe has gained from being the place periodically chosen by Great Powers for a battleground.

Eyes South

indicate news which le strictly copyright the waters of our English Chan- To-day Hitler, having tested under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinance, 18. Such news anel with his toe for

bears the indication "yp" is received ip the United Prest Anaelations, who ro

Hongkong on the date of publication by

serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

LOSING AN EMPIRE

some

months, and found them too cold, has turned southward to dreams of conquest in the Mediterranean and Africa.

And the unhappy Balkans, which lie in between, are his THE entry of the Nazi Luft-first stepping stones. waffe into the Mediterranean

war theatre, and the talks be tween Hitler and Mussolini at Berchtesgaden pointedly ayn- chronise; there is a widespread

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— but skilfully manipulated, they can easily trip up Adolf

endured under the old Turkish years ago, wonders to what too

rule.

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control of the Axis war machine in the Mediterranean. . But

and

we shall have

sort of kingdom he will succeed millions of allies in the Bal-

kans. This, and not their own when he comes of age next year. shortcomings, has prevented The astutest of them all is is hard. If Greece succumbs But for the present their lot them from settling down, from Boris of Bulgaria, and if any the whole of the Balkans pass Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece; ful States.

The Balkans are Jugoslavia, building progressive and peace- man can come through this new under German-Italian domina- the tiny statelet of Albania also

Balkan storm still on his throne, tion. counts among them; and Tur-

This is the reason why a Bal- Boris the man. key, too, ranks as

Jugoslavia, as you soon will kan King has only the ultimate Balkan

Remote from ail choice between abdication

possible see if Greece falls, will be par-

choice-passively to sit back. Hitler will take the northern and allow the Germans to part, which used to belong to march through his country the Austro-Hungarian Empire, In Spain, King Carol of when Hitler decides to send and which will give Germany Rumania, his throne already them, or at Hitler's bidding her longed-for port on the

Adriatic.

Can We Do It? Mussolini will take most of

tiny Serbia would be loft in mock independence.

an side of the Dardanelles, 19 h because as long as she is there

Hitler's southward drive on the edge of Europe.

Our Chance

By DOUGLAS REED

and Author of “Insanity Fair")

lost, is fighting against Hitler's actively to send and Himmler's attempt to force against. Greece.

his troops

him.

Bulgarin would pass under German domination as effective- ly as Hungary. only.country. which could effectively help the choice of fighting or yield- Then Turkey would be given

which our

mighty

The Balkans are but stopping- stones--but, if we could mani- pulate them skilfully, they could

she still has that one foot in but two or three exceptions to Europe which we fought the last this rule). there are good reasons to feel Great War, among other things, that Nazi intervention on behalf of her partner has come too late.

to deny her, The capture of Tobruk by has that one foot on the Europe- Happy we are to-day that she British forces virtually seals the fate of Libya Part of the Italian Empire. we have a chance of checking (Distinguished Commentator on European Affairs the Dalmatian coast, while 4 Its_strutogical-importance-can- not be over emphasised for ever since Libya fell under Italian sovereignty in 1912, Italy has developed Tobruk, as a naval base. Its potentialities in this

We have a chance of keeping General Franco to surrender Russia, the respect were recognised as long checkmating his plan to close a foothold there ourselves, of ago as the late 18th century the Dardanelles and the Black Carol's fate would be tragic, for suspiciously from the Coventry yielded, and, with Hitler coming If it should succeed, King the Balkans, is still watching ing, ng Bome .others have when one writer observed: "It is as a future man-of-war hur Sea and to bottle-up Russia un Hitler has never forgiven him to

island-minded down through Spain to Gibraltar bour that Tobruk is likely to be til he has conquered us and is the execution, immediately after politicians have sent her.

and through Syria towards a visit to Berchtesgaden, of the important. It has been visited ready to strike at her.

We have no better friends terranean, for Africa and the Egypt the battle for the Medi- by both British and Italian

Rumanian Nazi leader, Corneliu Incidentally, you should never

in the world than the tons of British Empire would bogin in Codreanu. squadrons and has become an speak of Hungary as a Balkan

millions of Balkans peasants, earnest. object of considerable ́solicitude Power unless you wish mortally In London, at the Ritz Hotel, They, have centuries of guerilla to the government of Italy." to offend a Hungarian,

you may see King Zog of Al- warfare against Italy's solicitude for Tobruk This is not so much because bania, with his Queen Geral- enemy in their blood. developed into sheer hunger from the mountain range which whom he, married, and his little peasant-warrior with a gun in]

The spirit of the comitaji still trip Hitler up. and the advantages it offered Hungary is, in fact, remote dine, the American-Hungarian, which found satisfaction in the gives the Baikan Peninsula its son, who takes his outing in the his hand-boils in them; they park with two Albanian guards resemble the Boers, and we crusade of 1911-12 when Tripoli name, but because Hungary always in attendance.

still remember the way those was rested from Turkish con- dearly loves to think that she be- trol. Now Italy fias

Strange tricks our times play farmer-soldiers fought in South lost longs to "the West," its civilisa-

on the men who have at one Africa. Tobruk, and just as the fall of tion and its culture.

time or another occupied the Bardia made practically impossi- For centuries the sufferings front of the European stage:

A Hard Lot |ble the successful defence of the of Europe have reached their King Zog, once a Colonel in the

naval port, so will the loss of highest point in the Balkans. Imperial Austrian Army, some- Britain among those millions Tobruk compromise beyond hope A hundred years ago, when times passes on the steps of the in the Balkans they would be being sent back to

To save Magda Lupescu from Rumania, the position of Derma and they won their freedom, the it a former Austrian cavalry worth armies to us.

officer Prince Starhemberg,

where she would face a charge Benghazi. Control of this golden age seemed to have

now a pilot in General de But they have not the faith of complicity in murder, part of the North African dawned for thera.

Gaulle's Air Force.

in us that they had a hundred King Carol is understood to have coast will provide Bri. In practice, the greed and

years ago, and in the last ten told the Spanish authorities that Not far from the Ritz is with an immeasurable rapacity of Great European. Brown's

years, especially, they have ho is married to her. Hotel, which advantage. In countering Nazi Powers have made this last years ago had a moxiest and re-

some come to doubt us.

The wedding is said to have intervention in the Mediterran-century- not much better, for tiring guest-the present King What they want from us is taken place in London ean; neither must the great them, than the centuries they George of Greece, who now sits not the promise of "de- years ago. strategical value of Crete, which

on his throne in Athens for the mocracy"-people in this coun- The Rumanian Government is the British have occupied since al hesitation to pronounce curly second time and watches the try cannot understand how the baking for Mme. Lupescu's ex- the disastrous Italian venture judgment, but certainly there Italian invader striking towards word has lost credit in recent tradition, claiming that she le

years--but the promise are indications that Italy, as a his capital. against Greece, be forgotten,

"liberation." militant Power, is nearing the

implicated in the murder of the It is true that the German end of her tether. Her forces hold on to part of Greece, or am "Can the British help me to

Iron Guard lender Codreanu. And they want also, and Luftwaffe can have a tremend- are in flight on two fronta in the I booked to return to Brown's soon, some kind of success, three valets, and two malds, Carol Accompanied by four secretaries, ous nuisance value in the Middle Middle East, and she has been Hotel, there to hope for a second even a small success, as an and Lupescu have a twelve-roomed Sea, but warplanes cannot save driven halfway out of Albania, restoration? These are the earnest of our strength, to re- sulle in Madrid's Palace Hotel, over- Libya for Italy, nor prevent the Axis which is not likely to be mind to-day.

It is a disheartening blow to the thoughts that Bli King George's awaken their age-old belief in looking the Plaza del Neptuno, success of the British

our arms and our vigour.

Mmo. Lupescu hàn; not. left her. sulte. Those who have seen har say In Jugoslavia, young King Just give them that and the she is hoggard, and spends a large Peter, his father murdered alx people of this country need it, part of her time weeping.

tain

and

And Latest BRITISH War News Abyssinian offensive in Eritrea tance of German milltary in- recouped oven with the assis-

and Ethiopia. There is a natur- 'genuity.

If we could awaken faith in

of

Carol Says 'Lupescu Is My Wife'

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some