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A COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN
Effort To Capture British Youth
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publication should be addressed to A memorandum drawing atten-
Here There and Everywhere
CAPS OF MANY COLOURS..
FRENCHWOMEN
HAVE
NO VOTE
SUFFRAGE REFORM
DEFIED
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The Communist
que. This is a non-political body, through a catechism on the subject under the presidency of Lord Gain by their seniors. The terrors of ford, which was established in such colour-exams will be re- 1919 to inculcate a widespread died by a learned little book. and "Life's Memories of Eton knowledge of sound economics.
It is stated in the memorandum Eton Colours,” which has just ap- that the Communist party is work-peared.
Its author is Mr. E
THERE
OF THE REPUBLIC
(By Alan Houghton Brodrick)
HERE are only five coun- bodied in the Napoleonic Code tries in Europe whereof Laws, and have kept the women may not vote at all. Frenchwoman until this day, C.They are Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, for all intents and purposes, a Hong Kong, Thursday, July 16, 1936. ing to win over the youth
ganisations of Great Britain Deverent, who has been a hosier Switzerland, Albania and perpetual minor. · She has no cording to a definite plan evolved in Eton for nearly 70 years. His France.
political rights "whatever; she lat the Communist International
grandfather was hatter to William It is true that in some other cannot marry, in practice at Congress last July. This plan was IV.
countries, such as Greece and least, without her parents' con- Cure - All
announced three months later xt;
Portugal, women have not full sent, and once she is married the Congress of the Young Com- Ee gives nearly 100 reproduc-political equality with men. the control of all her affairs Much water has flowed under munist International by Dimitrov, tions of past and present colours. They either vote without being passes into the hands of her the bridges since the day when an important Communist leader. The Field," the blue and scarlet eligible to sit in Parliament, or husband. w. S.. Gilbert could remark who said:
colour given for Eton football, is they have no Parliamentary' It is true that her personal franchise but do vote at muni- fortune and the money which cipal elections.
she may earn can be guaran- With the exception of Spain. teed to her by a species of ante where women obtained fullnuptial settlement known political rights after the revo-la separation de biens,” but it' The newest was authorised lastution and the downfall of the is rare for such a marriage to
with some truth that every boy Your duty, comrades, is to find second in age to Eton blue, and every gal that's born into such ways, forms and methods of this world alive was either a work as will help to create a new
little Liberal or else a little type of mass organisation in capi- SKULL AND CROSSBONES Conservative. We take our talist
countries, organisations party affiliations and what a which, without imitating the Com-
some
"Correct" Path
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number of them there are munist party, will concern then-year dark green with two thin monarchy, those countries be entered into by any except much more seriously nowadays. selves with all the vital interests Etoni blue stripes, for boxing and where women both vote and sit the relatively well-off classes of Political parties range from of toiling youth and train them in fencing.
in the legislative assemblies are society. one had almost said, the sub-the spirit of the class struggle."
all in the centre and north of New housemasters seem моте
Daughters' Dowry lime to the ridiculous. National
enterprising in choosing new Europe. political conceptions vary from At the same congress Mr. John colours. Until recently, they gen- The only countries where] The average French hank the quasi-democratic, such as Gollan. secretary of the British |
erally took
over their predeces-women obtained the vote in will not agree to open an we find in Britain and America Young Communist League, said: to the absolute dictatorships of
"In the course of developing thi. /sors, but lately there has been a time of peace and not as the account for a married woman result of a revolution are Great without her husband's written spate of fresh colours. European countries. friendly co-operation with the
Britain, the Scandinavian coun-consent. Unless she is legally Fascism and Communism are socialist youth we have realised Mr. W. N. Roe, who has had a tries and Holland. Women separated from her spouse, the as the poles apart except in one the necessity to find the correct house since 1933 is the most ori-vote in Belgium but have not Frenchwoman cannot accom- important particular: that each path to transforming the strucginal. Instead of the usual stripes full political rights. All the plish any legal formality, from system enshrines as a fundature, the forms of work, and, in-or quarters, he has adopted a states created or resurrected by claiming insurance money to mental proviso of its creed the deed, the whole character of our plain blue cap with a small white the peace treaties have accord-instituting a prosecution, with- dictum that there shall be no Youny Communist Leagne.”
rose in front - a pun on the name ed votes" to women.
out her husband's approval. opposition. There is no room,
She has no recourse if he re- fof his house, “Roe's."
fuses this approval. either in the Fascist and Nazi
in States or in the Communist totalitarian State, Soviet Rus- sia, for any political opinion but that of the leaders. Any sort of opposition to the reigning regime is ruthlessly stamped out, by varying degrees of coercion.
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EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Arrested For Thinking
IUSEPPE MAZZINT
(1805-1
Napoleonic Codé Mr. G. W. Lyttelton, too. has an Now two main considerations The unmarried woman unusual colour. When he succeed are suggested by a study of the France is, therefore, better off ed Mr. Brinton in 1925, he revived franchise map. One is that from many points of view than.
the black skull and crossbones on a those countries which refusé
her married sister. It must be scarlet ground. For many years women the vote are those of remembered that in all classes this was sacred to Miss Evans, Latin culture, and the second is
in France women, who marry last and greatest of Eton's dames, that with the exception of have always
Your Daily Smile!
land, and. to a certain extent, money has very little chance A girl with no Jugoslavia, they are also main-of getting married. by countries of Roman Catho regard the saving of a lic religion. These rules hold ferder saving up of a downy generally for the countries out the most important of their
Bulgaria, Albania and Switzer their own. some money of
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This is neither the time nor the place for abstract discus- sion of national political sys Gr 1812), the apostle of Italian If you want a man to admire your tems. All' have their suppor- ters as well as their detractors. Unity, was arrested by the police judgment-praise him.
of Savona, Italy, on November 13, There seem to be obvious good 1330, for the crime of taking long points in all of them. But
solitary walls, immersed in deep Business goes where it is wanted, there is also most definitely a very great deal which must be thought When he refused to and stays where it is well treated. divulge what his thoughts were. thoroughly deplored. The
An expert says you can often tell absolute negation of free speech he was imprisoned for several
months and then expelled to a genuine antique by tapping it and unfettered opinion, commen France. Mazzini headed several sharply. This is specially true in the is one of the worst points of unsuccessful risings against Italy's case of eggs. dictatorships in any form. The oppressors and spent a large part ideal of absolutely free expres-of his life in exile, for his sion of political opinion has patriotism. not yet been reached, even in
to all non-democratic systems,
"does not show that the Com- the democratic systems obtain-munists have captured youth ing in England and America; organisations, but it does show but it can be said with truth
that within a considerable that there has been a very real number of them there. are accomplishment in this direc- tion in the centuries of growth people some of them in execa- tive positions-who are work- of the British political system, inc. consciously or uncón- and that that right is more scirusly, for the ends that the freely admitted in England Young Communist League than anywhere eise. This desires to achieve." seems to us to be a heritage If those ends were compara- which it is worth fighting for tively harmless and did not cut to retain, and when it is threa-diametrically across all the poli- tened by a system, such as that tical concepts of free and of Communism, which openly democratic England there would aims at subordination of all be little to be said about the private opinion and the advent Communist aims. But in point of a regime, however inspired, of fact the reality is far dif- which has for its purpose the ferent. Amid the wordy jar- subjugation, by force if neces- gon about "class struggles" sary, of any opinion but that of world revolutions," "a new those in authority, then the type of mass organisation in time for a protest appears to capitalist countries" and all the have arrived.
other blather about capital and
The British body politic is labour-for all the world NA all too casual about these though their ultimate in- things, and is apt to wave them terests were not, as they are in aside with the remark that fact, exactly similar the aim "such things couldn't happen of fostering intermicine hatred here." That is all very well; but is only too evident. Whether it is desirable that the country Cornmunişı can provide a at large should know of the in-paradise on earth for all has sidious Communist propaganda yet to be proved; the Russian which is being disseminated experiment is not entirely con- in Britain through the unconvincing. But when it is openly scious medium of boys' clubs, advocated that its changes the Young Men's and Women's should be brought about by Christian Associations, the violence; then it seems totus League of Nations Union and that there is scope for far more Lother - such ́ ́ bodies.. At the drastic discouragement than Communist International Con- our political system seems to gress held last July a definite provide. That, presumably, is "plan" was' evolved to win over one of the weaknesses of de- the youth organisations of mocracy. Ent, paradoxically, Great Britain to the Communist it is also a sign of strength; ideal. Particulars are given because even the Commninists elsewhere in this issue. "Com-do not hesitate to admit that, rades were told that their duty in England at-least,”-most-" of was to "concern themselves their seeds have fallen on with all the vital interests of ground so barren that they are toiling youth and train them in inclined to despair of the cropla the spirit of the class struggle."lever being anything but sadly The evidence, it was stated, withered weeds.
A good office woman should make an ideal wife. She can run things without letting the boys realise it.
Fathers
side Europe.
daties to their families. It has been said that in: All this seems to-day rather France the feminists have to strange to us, but there is combat three very powerful sound common sease behind forces-Napoleon and the Code the custom, and it was also the Civil, Voltaire and the tradi- rule in England right up to the ton of the French Revolution time when the industrial revo and the influence of the lution changed all our habits Clericals.
and modes of life. The French Napoleon, as is known, had have never had an industrial But the French very reactionary ideas about revolution. women. These ideas were em- (Continued on Page 11)
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