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August 21, 1941,

NAZI-SOVIET WAR POSES A PROBLEM FOR THE FUTURE:

World Economy Is At Stake

Having by this time digested would destroy every vestige of individual most of the comment of various ob-nationalism and elementary freedom in the servers of the new war, one is easily whole of Europe.

of

He is head Russia's armies

altain a waterproof, weather re-led into concluding that the whole Democracy, by the way, has found the business was practically unexpected, way of successfully defending herself and that it surely took even the Rus- against revolutionary Communism; she has sians themselves by surprise. All of not discovered, so far, the way of properly which goes to prove that the German defending herself against Nazi militarism. Gestapo did a far better job in get-As a matter of fact, this is the kind of job ting information out of the U.S.S.R. democracy is engaged in, right now.

Next to the military and ideological than the Soviet secret police man-

TRod armies who HE generalissimo of the aged to secure from the Reich. Re-problem now created by the Russo-German directs the war against Germany sult: the Nazis knew ex-

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By POLYZOIDES

war, there comes the issue ns Defence Commissar is Mar- of economie world relation-shal Semyon Timoshenko, a soldier of 27 years' experience. ships, and they will un- His military training began as doubtedly be strongly a private in the Czar's forces in influenced by the out- 1914 and reached top army ranking on May 8, 1940, when sians have given the impression of come of this conflict. With Nazi Germany he replaced Marshal Klementi being caught napping, when the having solved her economic problem by simply using her military force to secure From the strictly ratial, historic everything she wants in any part of returned to his native vilinge under the provisions of the Telecomntal and psychological view, the Nazi ad- Europe, and with Russia only partly suc-home town people everywhere might

Thursday, Aug. 21, 1941.

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whole economic cost of Russia's war, owing WORKERS AND THE WAP Prussia to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

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the Soviets are hardly up to Germany in NOTHING stood out more Leningrad, those areas constitute the matter of efficiency and means. prominently during the pre- the hallowed ground of the earliest Whether under such terrific strain oùr] than the Nazi leader & contempt Teuton advance to the east 700 years economic system will manage to weather labour as expressed through the ago when the Knights of the Cross the storm and survive at the end of even WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. trade unions. The liberalism of and the Knights of the Sword were a victorious war, it is as yet too early to

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war Hitler's

for and suspicions of organised

Trade Union movement was;

and still is, anathema to Hitler in flower. who knows only too well that it stands for the abolition of precisely the system which he so vividly represents-lictator- ship.

trade unionism has taken

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missar.

There is an Alger-like touch, to the life of Timoshenko. Last year he of Furmanovka and was hated as

E. Voroshilov as Defence Com-

Wearing the brilliant uniform of a he kissed his old hils boyhood, friends and embraced

wore the of a poor rough homespun clothes man.

After the close of the Finnish war early last year it was revealed that Marshal Timoshenko bud led the Red troops in the northern campaign. He also commanded troops who met the Germans at the clore of the war In Poland In the fall of 1939.

Lad

welcome a local boy who made good. Soviet marshal, brother, a labourer who

specialist. He fought, beside Josef know Stalingrad) and he rode with

was named

the

to

chief assistant to of the 10

Gen. Jonas E. Yakır, one

that he had been assistant comman-

Uborevich, who

Timoshenko is known as a cavalry V. Stalin in the defence of Tsaritsyn the Semyon Budenny say. One thing' is certain, however, and the dash into Poland in 1920.

The Ited army purge of June, 1037, that is that the last vestiges of American brought the name of Tunoshenko to the sorefront. Following the execu- the North When the writer of these lines was in neutrality are fast going by the board be-tion of eight Red military leaders, he

commander of Coucasus military corps area. This Koenigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, cause of the Russo-German war.

district at the time was considered one of the most

It Important. long The unanimous front which in 1939, ten days before the war began on

had been a a battleground and some of most important confilets of the throughout the world, and. September. 3, nothing was more pathetic

It is to be regretted of course that civil war were fought in this area.

Before being sent the North notably in Britain and her than to see how distressed those East Empire, against Hitler's belliger Prussian Germans were over the prospect Stalin, who is credited with being a shrewd caucusus, Timoshenko served in the ent programme to dominate firstly Europe, and later on, the that the Baltic republics were about to be and clever man, had not foreseen in August, Kiev district as world, is therefore hardly sur-handed over to Russia under the secret 1939, the blind alley into which he was be-leaders executed in 1937. Prior prising, although to the Nazi terms of the treaty of that year between ing led by the Nazis who offered him their der-of-the-White-Russian district Fuchrer it must be infuriating, assuming as it does a solid front Moscow and Berlin. Eventually the deal dubious temporary alliance. But that is under Gen. Jeremy of the democracies' workers, was sealed and finally consummated. Every an old story now. Hitler, having isolated ico was executed. pledged to destroy the pernicious German from those republics was moved and attacked one by one all of his op- back to the Reich, abandoning forever his ponents during the last 20 months, is Australia's workers are among homestead of many centuries and many heavily counting on knocking out Russia before that country gets any substantial the latest to voice their deter-

help from the British and Americans. mination to this end, and recent-generations before him. ly the Australasian Council of Trade Unions sent the following the new arrangement was to be lasting, potential enemy for the Nazis to tackle,

Everybody thought at the time that

Following which, there will be only one cable to the High Commissioner of Australia in London, making except, of course, Hitler, who was set upon and that enemy will be the United States, with or without the other republics of the this reclaiming those lands as soon as practic- clear their position in struggle against brutal dictator-able. His legions are now marching back

Western Hemisphere. ship: "This Congress recalls and into the old Teuton domains. re-affirms the declaration of the

While he is thus encouraging the New South Wales and Victorian branches of the A.C.T.U., and Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians to other sections of the Trade expel the Bolsheviks from those lands, Union Congress of 1940 support Hitler is helping the Finns to make good ing the war against Hitler and their losses of 1940 while at the same time

German system,

Fascism. We record our un-

and the right of collective

compromising determination to he has given Rumania the "go" sign to continue the struggle against march into Bessarabia and Bukovina and the aggressor Powers endeavour reclaim the provinces Russia took away ing to destroy personal liberty, from her less-than a year ago. Thus in industrial and political freedom. East Europe Hitler now appears as the bargaining and associationship, strange champion of the self-determination and therefore pledge the Trade of peoples-his policies in Czechoslovakia, Union Movement to work for Poland and Yugoslavia notwithstanding. the swift and complete victory The Bolsheviks have few friends over that for the cause of Democracy part of the world. against aggressión and op-

pression. Wo affirm that to prevent the possibility of In-

dividual profiteering by the war

the immediate nationalisation of

These truths are not very pleasant,

there should be brought about and not very encouraging; but the time has the arms industries and the come to face things as they are, and not as utilisation of the nation's credit. we wished them to be.

dinto improvement in the

We demand a substantial imme- There are in Eastern Europe two huge standard of life and freedom of armies fighting for the mastery of those speech and assembly. Congress areas; but more than that there are two expresses its horror and systems and two philosophies of life looked condemnation at the barbaric in mortal combat. Neither of them is and ruthless method by which the forces of Nazism and popular with us; we are opposed to both. Fascism are endeavouring to And yet we have to help one of them rain world control and doming-against the other, and there is plenty of evidence to show that we are going to back Here is a document which the Russian horse to the limit, irrespective revents the uncompromising of consequences. attitude of labour to Hitlorism.

tion."

This is the voice of the peoples We are not doing so because we favour. of democracy speaking even Communism; but rather because we feel more forcibly than through the that Russia, if victorious, will be satisfied mouth of any statesman or with her survival and the continuation of politician. It is a light to the finish declaration which is the task of her national and popular re- being echoed over the world, demption; while should Hitler win, he

☆

The Red army generalisshino wears the highest decorations. He is a Hero Order of Lenin. Both these honours of the Soviet Union and holds the were bestowed for his leadership in the Finnish and Polish campaigns.

Timoshenko has been a Communist

the Russia and the Ukraine. Party member since 1919 and served on the Party's central committee in

He was born 40 years Bgo in tia, younger brother, Elm, is Bessarablo, the son of a peasant

worker.

CAN WE COUNT ON

MUSSOLINI'S AID TO HITLER

TO ARRIVE IN TIME?.

HOPE IN RUSSIA.

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