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January 23, 1941.

The Balkans, In New Turmoil, Are Intended To Be-

HITLER'S

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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.

What are "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 some 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

To-day Hitler, having tested the waters of our English Chan- nel with his toc for, some months, and found them too cold, has turned southward to dreams of conquest in the Mediterranean and Africa.

And the unhappy Balkans, which lle in between, are his first stepping stones.

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but skilfully manipulated,

they can easily trip up Adolf

and we shall have millions of allies in the Bal- kanu.

endured under the old Turkish years ago, wonders

to what too rule.

sort of kingdom he will succeed own when he comes of age next year.

their This, and not

But for the present their lot shortcomings, has prevented The astutest of them all is is hard. If Greece succumbs them from settling down, 'from Boris of Bulgaria, and if any the whole of the Balkans pass building progressive and peace- man can come through this new under German-Italian domina- ful States.

Balkan storm still on his throne, tion. This is the reason why a Bal- Boris is the man.:

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

Remote from. all possible see if Greece falls, will be par- choice between abdication and

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

the at Hitler's bidding her longed-for port on

Adriatic.

Can We Do It? Mussolini will take most of the Dalmatian coast, while tiny Serbia would be loft in mock independence.

Power because, since Chanak, assassination (I can think of help, as he is, he has only one titioned.

By DOUGLAS REED (Distinguished Commentator on European Affairs

and Author of “Insanity Fair”)

LOSING AN EMPIRE

THE entry of the Nazi Lufl- waffe into the Mediterranean war theatre, and the talks be- she still has that one foot in but two or three exceptions to tween Hitler and Mussolini at Europe which we fought the last this rule). Berchtesgaden pointedly syn-Great War, among other things, chronise; there is a widespread | to deny her. belief that Germany is to take

Happy we are to-day that she control of the Axis war machine has that one foot on the Europe- in the Mediterranean. But

an side of the Dardanelles, there are good reasons to feel

because as long as_she_is_there that Nazi intervention on behalf we have a chance of checking of her partner has come too late. Hitler's southward drive on the

The capture of Tobruk by British forces virtually seals edge of Europe. the fate of Libya 48 ก

Our Chance. part of the Italian Empire. Its strategical importance can-

We have a chance of keeping a foothold there ourselves, of him. not be over emphasised for over since Libya fell under Italian checkmating. his plan to close sovereignty in 1912, Italy has the Dardanelles and the Black developed Tobruk as a naval Sea and to bottle-up Russia un- base. Its potentialities in this til he has conquered us and is respect were recognised as long ready to strike at her. ago as the late 18th century when one writer observed: "It is as a future man-of-war har- bour that Tobruk is likely to be important. It has been visited by both British and Italian squadrons and has become, an

peasant-warrior with a gun in? object of considerable solicitude

gives the Balkan Peninsula its "on, who takes his outing in the his hand-boils in them; they to the government of Italy.”

park with two Albanian guards resemble the Boers, and we name, but because Hungary always in attendance. Italy's solicitude for Tobruk-

*still remember the way those and the advantages it offered dearly loves to think that she be

Strange tricks our times play farmer-soldiers fought in South developed into sheer hunger longs to the West," its civilian-

оп the men who have at

one Africa. which found satisfaction in the tion and its culture. . . .

time or another occupied the crusade of 1911-12 when Tripoli For centuries the sufferings front of the European atage:

A Hard Lot was rested from Turkish con- of Europe have reached their King Zog, once a Colonel in the If we could awaken faith -In] trol Now Italy hus lost highest point in the Balkans, Imperial Austrian Army, some- Britain among those millions Tobruk, and just as the fall of Bardia made practically impossi-

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lost, is fighting against Hitler's actively to send his troops

Bulgaria would pass under and Himmler's attempt to force against Greece.

German domination is effective- ly as Hungary. General Franco to surrender

Russia, the only country which could effectively help the choice of fighting or yield- Then Turkey would be given; If it should succeed, King the Balkans, is still watching ing.

as some others have Carol's fate would be tragic, for suspiciously from the Coventry yielded, and, with Hitler coming Hitler has never forgiven him to which

island-minded down through Spain to Gibraltar the execution, immediately after politicians have sent her. and through Syria towards Egypt the battle for the Medi- Rumanian Nazi leader. Corneliu in the world than the tens of British Empire would begin in better friends terranean, for Africa and the -millions of Balkans peasants, carnest.

a visit to Berchtesgaden, of the

Codreanu

our

We have no

In London, at the Ritz Hotel, They have centuries of guerilla

Incidentally, you should never speak of Hungary as a Balkan Power unless you wish mortally to offend a Hungarian.

you may see King Zog of Al- warfare against 巍 mighty stones-but, if we could mani- This is not so much because bania, with his Queen Geral- enemy in their blood. Hungary is, in fact, remote whom he married, and his little.

dine, the American-Hungarian, The spirit of the comitaji from the mountain range which

The Balkans are but stepping-

pulate them skilfully, they could still trip Hitler up."

Carol Says 'Lupescu Is My

Wife'

TO save Magda Lupesca from

A hundred years ago, when times passes on the steps of the in the Balkans they would be being sent back to Romania,

ble the successful defence of the they won their freedom, the nge seemed to have naval port, so will the loss of golden Tobruk compromise beyond hope dawned for them.

Now

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where she would face a charge

Ritz a former. Austrian cavalry worth armies to us, officer Prince Starhemberg,

a pilot in General de But they have not the faith of complicity in murder, ex- Gaulle's Air Force.

in us that they had a hundred King Carol is understood to have years ago, and in the Inst ten told the Spanish authorilles that: Not far from the Ritz is years, especially, they have he is married to her...

Hotel, which some come to doubt us.

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of

The wedding is said to have soma years ago.

The Rumanian Government is asking for Mme. Lupescu's ex- tradition, claiming that sho in implicated in the murder of the

the position of Derma and In practice, the greed and Benghazi. Control of this rapacity of Great European Brown's part of the North African Powers have made this last years ago had a modest and re- const will provide Bri- century not much better, for tiring guest-the present King What they want from us is taken place in London tain with an immeasurable

the promisc of "de- advantage in countering Nazi thein, than the centuries they George of Greece, who now sits not

on his throne in Athens for the mocracy"-people in this coun- intervention in the Mediterran- can; neither must the great al hesitation to pronounce carly, second time and watches the try cannot understand how the atrategical value of Crete, which judgment, but certainly there Italian invader striking towards word has lost credit in recent

years but the promise tho British have occupied since are indications that Italy, as a his capital.

"liberation," the disastrous Italian venturo militant Power, is nearing the "Can the British help me to end of her tother. Her forces hold on to part of Greece, or am against Greece, be forgotten.

And they want also, and It is true that the German are in flight on two fronts in the booked to return to Brown's soon, Rome kind of success, three valets, and two maids, Carol Luftwaffe can have a tremend- 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. ous nuisance value in the Middle driven halfway-out of Albania restoration 7" Those are the earnest of our strength; to re-sulte in Madrid's Palace Hotel, over- Sea, but warplanes cannot save It is a disheartening blow to the Libya for Italy, nor prevent the Axis which is not likely to be thoughts that fill King George's awaken their age-old belief in looking the Plaza del Neptune,

mind to-day.

our arms and our vigour, · ·

Mme. Lupescu has not left her Buccoss of the British and recouped even with the assis

suite. Those who have seen her any In Jugoslavin, young King

Just give them that and the she is haggard, and spends a large. And Latest BRITISH War News Abyssinian, offensive in Eritrea tance of German military In-

Peter, his father murdered six people of this country need it,part of her time weeping. and Ethiopia. There is a natur- gcnulty,

Iron Guard loader Codreanu..

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