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"SECRET AGENT NO 1”

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The shape of things.

to come

PRE-1939

RUSSIAN

FRONTIER

CURZON

LINE

by JOHN

GORDON

ITH pity and horror the. Czecha as tightly as It sits over free peoples of the world the Russians, who have never have seen the clouds of known liberty. darkness roll in these last few duys over democrátic Czecho- slovakia,

The right to speak, to net, and even to think as impulse or conscience moves them, passes from its fine people.

What has impelled the con- trollers of Soviet Russla to

make this brazen new challenge to the Western democracies?

What menace does their move hold for others, including us?"

These questions are being We see already the shape of naked across devastated Europe things to come. All education and across the American Con- in schools is to be "political." tinent. Let us try to From now on, the minds of the logical answers, growing generation are to be closed to thought.

news.

The Minister of Information, who might be described more accurately as the Minister for the suppression of inconvenient has warned foreign re- porters that the only "facts" they must write are those he gives them.

He has not bothered to give similar instructions to his own Press. He has merely thrown who hold contrary out those views to his, and replaced them by trusted distortionists.

I

the

'STOOGES' IN But not for long True, for the moment, form of democracy has not yet been torn utterly in shreds. But in due time it will be.

There is still left what has the shape of parliamentary government. But it won't be

for long.

The Communists still permit carefully selected stoogen. with other labels to sit among them. When freedom has been curbed sufficiently to ensure the Communists a clear majority in. the coming election, the atooges, having served the purpose, will be cast aside.

Then down will come the Iron curtain over the liberty-loving

These

find

SOVIET FEAR A free Europe Russia's coup is another reply to the Marshall aid plan. Rightly or wrongly she has the most desperate fear of restored Europe.

Above all she fears a united Europe founded on the principles

under that heading equally with the United States system of free entor- prise) would in the end destroy ber brand ht communism. Tho de- mocracies. on the other hand, have an equal fear that communism would destroy their economic structure.

For the moment, therefore, both sides are seeking to achieve a balance of power the old system of war prevention we have seen often In world history-a balance of power side from attempting to destroy the which, while it exists, will keep one other.

If that balance of power can be achieved the Lension will ease and the possibility of war will recede into the future. Can it be achieved? I think it will be.

It will be chiefly because neither side wants a war or is in a position at present to fight one.

There will be tension and crises in

plenty through the years immediate- ly ahend-cold war, if you like that modern description-but no actunl military eclion unless one side or the other in a moment of heat takes some step that leaves no option but

recourse to arms,

of

of freedom and'democracy.

Unill 11 balance of power is She intends to destroy the achieved there 15. always the Marshall plan if she can. But possibility of that, but I should think if she cannot she

it ressonable to assume that war is is equally not immediately in the minds determined that the area be- either side. tween Marshall-aided Europe and the true Western frontier of Russia shall be so vast that a conflict if it came could be fought in other lands than Russia.

Is the seizure of Czecho- slovakia the limit in view? should hardly think 80.

TWO SYSTEMS · World is big criough

On economic grounds alone if is possible for both sides to rub along

together.

GERMANY

SWEDEN

AUSTRIA

ITALYS

RUMANIA

300

BULGARIA

The lands Russia controla. ... Those she holds compistely are tinted; those in process of going over aro cross-shođed. Next on the list may be Austria and Italy.

whole world, conferring herty on, another end in complete deadlock. the Russians is not our business. Why? Because open diplomacy does It is their business to why it thom- not work. Delicato political nexo- relves.

Ours merely to show them tiations conducted in the sight and the way by example, and hope that hearing of all the world time will bring change, as it always achieve nothing. does.

Such conferences of the Powers as

can

But it is very much our busness we have had have become merely which As economic systems capitalism to see that the slavery system does propaganda platforms from

I and communism can exist together. not spill too for over the frontiers one side or the other declaims to the

The world is big enough for both. of Russia. Because if I did spill world.

They can even trade together with too far we might one day watte up some freedom, as past years have

of

I think it would be wiser to end

what history calls seerat diplomacy. proved, provided they avoid probing to find that we had lost our own these public brawls and get back to each other's touchy spots. is

cherished freedom.

Czechoslovakia is therefore very

Little or

When two men quarrel in public a'

neither dares to retract. But two

Hungary is in the last phase change. Austria may soon be in the Brst.

Both are cast of the line Russia wishes to hold. Finland

It may be, and we all hope it will being pressed closer into the fold to be, the case that a period of deve- much the business of the free demo-ettlement becomes impossible, for

the cracies.

men can quarrel even bitterly across cover Russia in the north.

But what can we do? There are equally ominous algns loping mutual trade will ease

tension, and give us the years

ยุ table in privale, and in the end of movement in Italy. No doubt to of respite we need to bring us to a, nothing for the moment. Certainly reach an amicable settlement because provide a southern bastion.

That would neither will "lose face" publicly better understanding of each other, we cannot go to war. Are Russia's fears reasonable? Are and in the end to that common goal he idle, foolish, and probably disas he dives way.

To a certain extent

ahead of all men, a world united in trous. they justified? they are.

For the moment, in that region, Superficially the conflict between the pursuit of the happiness

'Moscow holds the trumps, as lu the two chief forces in the world liberty of all peoples.

But in the end we shall be wise other regions the democracies hold today may appear to be economic.

Western never to forget this fact. Although them. Rússin fears that the system of capitalism (and she inhere may be an economic settlement of life, cludes the British brand of Socialism between the two systems there ts a fundamental

political 'difference between the two, upon which commón agreement is im- possible.

men walked

out into nowhere

By ERIC BENNETT

RS. VERA TAYLOR, of MRS

North London, was given a decree nisi last month.

Her husband, Frank Taylor, a £5-a-week clerk, walked out of their fit one morning in 1020 No trace of him has been found since that day.

The story of the missing-the men and women who walked out of door into nowhere is fascinating and strange.

No one can be lost in the Sahara and without

search strenuous publicity, no ship can be lost with out the widest exploration by air and boat, but a man can still vanish between his house and his office.

SLAVE STATE No liberty there

Western democracies The founded on the liberty of men. humblest citizen is as free as most powerful among us.

and

WILL SHE STOP?

And I think we might do botter, too, if when we change to secret diplomacy we changed our negotia- tors.

Such a change on both sides would be helpful. For there has been so nuch public squabbling that both sets of negotiators have now come to regard each other as irreconcilablo adversaries instead of men seeking to hammer out a settlement.

As for the strength we must re- bull to hold our place among the In places giants

Limit of conquest Will Russia spread her tentacles much further? Certainly she will try whenever and wherever she thinks it can be done. she will succeed.

I would suggest that We And when will she stop?

The should be wise to shed ourselves of the idea that we can ever again send are minute her advances reach the Into the Aeld what is called a Con-

the at which

democractes The point

tinental army-that is, 'an ormy the

say This is the uttermost limit. swollen by conscription to the limit One step further and it

As the old story of wartime goes, when a sudden knock comes on the door at six o'clock in the morning, the free democracy

the

man in

knows that it is the milkman. in

Martin was in London, and on April 3, 2013, he dined with friends at the Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall.

He smoked a cigar and then said he had date with a woman. He took a taxi and

taxi and vanished., a But that was not the last trace of Mr Martin. His opera hat and his gold watch chain and his wallet,

emptied of the £100 he carried,

seen in a

But.

of

war."

at that moment the United States is in a position to make war, you will find, I guess, that Russia will be ready to make a deal.

The Russian system is different.

For the last thing Russla wants is It is not based on the liberty men,

but on slavery, imposed and war. It could, and It probably would, controlled by a relatively tiny group destroy her.

Meanwhile we have two..courses. of-people-stent

suits the before us which we must bursue with

beenuse unflagging vigour. emerged and have

That system probably Russians for the prese

they have only regent,

We must rebuild our strength, so gravely weakened by the last war,

of our civilian population.

The histotle role of Britain was to have a supreme Navy capable of holding the seas against all comers, plus a small but superb professional Army for the protection of the homeland, and vital points overseas. WHERE WE LOSE Doing-too-much-

To the Navy nowadays, must be added a strong Ale Force.

4

or

from

the feudal system

We cannot maintain a first-class never known liberty.

But even in Russia it Involves for without strength we may dle in Navy, a powerful Air Force, and a

10 and the battle of glants.

cluzen Army of Continental strength. keeping anything between

We do not have the manpower 20 millions of people permanently

And we must seek to establish the money to 'do it. some satisfactory settlement with in forced labour camps under rather grim conditions.

Russia which will allay her fears and remove the shadow of war from the world,

were found near the Thames, 11o body was ever discovered.

Later it was said that he had been

a ship to South Africa on April 4. A telegram signed Martin, and later proved to be a fake, was sent from Switzerland to one of the friends he had dined with in London. And finally

his brother, when Joseph Martin became heir to £200,- a few days ago the New 000 after his presumed death, swore

however much. we love York police reopened the case of that he was alive in Central Ameri- borty, and however urgently wo Frederick Lloyd, a British oll mag- ca under the name of Jose Ascartin. hope to see it spread across the } Late, who left an exclusive New Two lawyers went to find him, but York club on the right. of October they failed. So has everyone else

ONLY

•

26. 1836. He hailed a cab and told before and since.

the driver. "Go north on Broad-

HE WAR

"was never seen again.

tor Grayson, brilliant orator, promising politician, for a short while a Socialist M.P., fought with the

Now

ew Zealand forces in the First World War and returned to England afterwards

His actress wife, Ruth Nightingale, In 1918, in 1020 Grayson left dled Liverpool for Hull,

.

ENTRAL and Southern America has accounted for' many tales of missing men.

Ambrose Bierce, American short- story writer, vanished in Mexico shortly before the first world war and nothing has been heard of him but unsubstantial rumours.

Colonel P. H.

who Fawcett,

He did not arrive in Hull but An London, where he booked a room in vanished in the wilds of the jungle

Strand hotel.

on the Upper Amazon, became He went into the bar of the hotel legend.

A

pearance.

'Liberly abhors slavery, Slavery tears Jiberty, The two systems have nothing in common, and any partner- ship between them is bound to be

uncaxy.

Now,

M

Our exhaustion as a nation began when we decided for the first time in our history to send a large-scalo citizen Army abroad in the 1914 war. We brought ourselves to the very

I suggest that what we need with some urgency is a change of view on the way to negotiate with Russia, edge of disaster when we repeated We Since the war ended we have seen that folly In the last war. one International conference after should never do it again.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

Mr Velvette rang up the Trio. Mr V.: Hullo. Kazbulah: Ho yes, please. j Mir V. In

that the-er-Mr-the Persian Trio?"

Kazbulah: It is but one of us, Mr Minister, have you

our plank? Mir V. Actually, I'm Velvette. Kazbulah: Is plank coming, official?

In passing

cal

string

-COLIN VELVETTE, producer of such ballets as The Tub of Lard," "L'Oiseau

THE fantastic story that American comedians travel about with Bur le Chapeau," "Adieu, Beau

gagsters on the end of "Sea Moon-

It is very typĮ- Fromage! and

Appears to be true. light," is seriously considering

of

that a this insane age comedian should be nothing but the the possibility of engaging, the

Joke-factory. I hope foreman in a files are kept, with statistics of the Filthistan Trio for his new pro- aduction, Iphigenia In Tauris."

number of laughs per jake per per- Mr Velvette said when interview- Mr-V. I'm afraid there's a mis-formance, and the duration of cach

definitely does so want take.

lough, I have no planks. I—————

Thus rhythm rhythm in ballet, and these Persians Kazbulah: Ring downl Wo want

their definitely rhythmic in

no other talk, ho yes.

Joko 594, soulevements, actually, if know

you what I mean.

cares most Same man, different hat getting frightfully

these things utterly

right." M

Velvette married to Konsalina. Pulimov (Agnes Grith?) of the Peabody Opera Company, who did the famous double glissade on her elbows "The Melancholy. Drowers."

and ordered a whisky and soda. He Long after he had been vaguely drank half of it and walked out. reported as murdered by Indians, That was his last authenticated ap- there were strange rumours of the white god who reigned over the tribes of the Matto Grosso, and for ten years after his "death had been established" men were still risking- AN N exact parallel with the disap- and giving their lives to find him.

pearance of Frederick Lloyd, the Of the tens of thousands of peo- oil man in New York, is the case of pló reported missing every year, Joseph Marlin, millionaire Ten- few become police cases because nessee cotton broker.

they have just ""walked out.".

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