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is trusted would be ab- solutely unanswerable if it were really true that a man who studi- thing and practised it every day went on seeing more and more of its significance. But he does not He goes on seeing less and less of its signi ficance
There is some truth in all this, | publication should be addressed to but in the main it is erroneous, the Editor, and be accompanied by and may become at times down the Writer'e Name and Address, right_nonsense. The specialist is insertion. but the man who knows his job, and he is often more modest about it than the layman who distrusts him. Let the shoemaker stick to his last! The world needs its specialists and should be willing to forgive their limitations. The story is told of a ship's captain and the chief engineer who, tired of their jobs, agreed to change over for a while. The chief engineer went on to the bridge and the skipper into the Dean Inge has little liking for engine-room. Things seemed to specialists, and in his most re-be going well—but suddenly the cent book, “A Rustic Moralist,” boat came to a dead stop. The he claims that people in general skipper down below, tried all he share his mistrust. In regard to knew, but finally shouted to the politics he makes out a fairly engineer, “Mac, you'll have to strong case, which, however, come down here, the engines have weakens as he goes on. The stopped," and the engineer "I'm not surprised English statesman, he recalls, be-shouted back,
been
TRUST THE MAN WHO KNOWS
fore the days of paid M.P.s and because the old tub has trade union officials was always ashore for the last half-hour." an amateur. The whole-time Better stick to our specialists! professional specialist politician.
is disliked and distrusted. "E] Government By
he quarrels with the soldier in
time of war, we instinctively side Firing Squad with the soldier. But why is
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the
that? Dean Inge does not seem It is now close to a year since Soviet justice began to perceive that it is just be the mill of cause the soldier is a specialist, grinding out startling news in an expert in his own line, and the its high-and-low search for politician, who is no specialist in "enemies." Since August more war, is hardly ever convincing names of famous Bolshevists when he differs from the sol-have been erased by firing squads dier. Dr. Inge should not have than in any other year of the overlooked this, for he himself Communist regime. Beyond 1 is a specialist in more than one borders of Russia it is permitted field, being the recognised au- to question the Kremlin's official thority on theology, mysticism explanation. Is it possible, asks and the philosophy of Plotinus, the "Christian Science Monitor," besides specialising for a time in than these men, some of whom gloom. To quote the "Times were entrusted with the creation Literary · Supplement,” "His and direction of both Red Army many-sided intellect ranged over and Communist State, could be every aspect of Christian learn-guilty of treason, especially in of an implied Fascist ing, until finally this 'pillar of the favour Church' consented to become two country? If this is so, one columns' in the Evening Stan- might well ask, “Who, then, is trustworthy in Russia ?” If, on dard.'"
Specialists are often charged the other hand, they are not with being not only arrogant, guilty, then in what way have dogmatic and fanatical, but also they offended Stalin and the lop-sided and of deplorably limit- Communist hierarchy ?
Did these men oppose the ed vision. They become obsessed with their chosen subject; for-course Stalin has laid down for get everything beyond. Nay, the country? Did they, as men more, they are continually nar-who have devoted their lives to rowing their already narrow line the triumph of pure Marxism, ob-
elimination. to one point. The true specialist ject to its gradual eli has been wittily contrasted with from Russia? Perhaps these the average politician: ““The questions will be answered specialist is a man who keeps on when future years reveal the re learning more and more about cords now being written in the less and less till he ends by Kremlin. Yet enough is known knowing everything about no- to tell the world that something thing: while the politician is a is radically wrong in the state man who keeps on learning less of Russia.
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and less about more and more. For a government avowedly till he ends by knowing nothing founded upon a desire to aid a about everything." -- In the suffering and virtually enslaved "Comments of Bagshot" Mr. J. nation seems to have become As Spender: indicates an almost frankly a hierarchy determined. equally destructive ・・・ point of to preserve its power. view: One of the maxims of bureaucracy and repression which "wither that imaginary looker-on is that Lenin – hoped would the conclusions of specialists away" have grown in scope. about their special branches of The love of ideal and self-sacri- study are always to be regard- fice, which the early leaders ed with suspicion. "Specialism," hoped would enable the Soviet he remarks, “is quite often only Union to surpass the democracies" another name for monomania.” în efficiency and benefits, has not He therefore advocates the in- materialised Repression. calls" cursions he of the countrained forth more repression, fear be- further fear, wherever mindle on the specialist's-pre gets
serves, being in this at one with these are keystones of govern- Chesterton, who used to declare ment, until the corrosion of gus- that the argument that the man picion and uncertainty who is trained should be the the structure.
threatens