Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 9 November 1939, Page 4

Timely Topics

i French pens and pencils continue Ito make fun of everything within I reach, but there is a notable absence i of highfalutin’ sentiment

t GALLIC I WIT.

about their own troops or of any attempt to depict the -enemy as squeal-

| xng cowards, says “The Times,” Lon--4 don. . ? The majority of contributors to the | French Press today have been through I the last war, and consequently there f are few instancs of the chauvinistic | extravagance or puerile ignorance { which in all countries produced such | absurd results last time. 4 Nor is there any nonsense about the I troops liking war. The theme of t fighting itself is nowhere treated as 4 a joke, nor would the public permit |it to be. It is realised that a stern ori deal is ahead and that stern resolution 4 is the only thing with which to face fit. I But there are plenty of ancillary | consequences of war to receive the | full blast of Gallic wit, of which the 4 censorship is naturally the chief. 4 * * *

| Said the London “News Chronicle” •on September 23: While the war in f the West continues to be confined in | the main to artillery

4 RUSSIA I MARCHES ON.

exchanges and protracted aerial recon-

, naissance, vast 1 changes are taking place in Eastern | Europe which may have a greater i ultimate significance for mankind ' than anything which has happened \ since the Russian Revolution. \ On many previous occasions Hitler [ has prided himself on acquiring new [ territory without fighting for it., \ In Poland he has fought for new [ territory without acquiring it. Mosl cow has been more than a match for ? him.

In the eyes of the Kremlin Poland, unlike peace, is apparently divisible, but the division announced from Berlin can give little satisfaction to the Nazis. , . Russia is to control more than half the country and her new frontier, starting close to East Prussia in the north, is to pass through Warsaw itself before running south to a point where it covers the Hungarian and part of the Slovak border. The consequences of this division of Poland are staggering in their potentialities. Obviously, the whole o i the new territory east of the line will come under the Soviet economic system.

Polish White Russia is likely to become a part of the Soviet White Russian Republic, and Polish Ukraine to join up with Soviet Ukraine, The future of the purely Polish part of the territory, which Russia now acquires is less clear, but it has always been a part of Soviet policy to encourage the autonomous development of nationalities and it is probable that a Polish Soviet Republic will be set up in the West \%ith its own language and traditions.