THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1938.
Pacifist In A
New Vein
Mr. Beverley Nichols has aban- doned pacifism at all events the uncompromising pacifism which made his book "Cry Havoc!" one of the literary sensations of 1933. “I could not write
'Cry Havoc!' to-day. It would be like waving a fan in the face of an advancing cloud of poison-gas," he declares in his new book "News of England"" (Cape, 7s 6d).
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**I now believe that there some things worth fighting for," he continues. "To this loathsome necessity,' as Lord Baldwin de-Englishman to a thousand Indians, "It is an unanswerable retort to scribed it, have I come, in company with a large number of other the trouble-makers of the Left who pacifists. I do not see why we talk about English oppression in India. If we needed a quarter of should be ashamed of ourselves.
"We have not been inconsistent. the spies, soldiers and police to We do not pretend that wär is any control the natives of India as the thing but legalised murder. But Kremlin needs to control its own should be we do at least see that something Russian people, we very precious may
vanish al-obliged to keep a standing army of together from the world unless we several millions.” defend it. And are prepared to that something is the English spirit.
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In justification of his declara-employment. tion, Mr. Nichols urges that Eng- land is "a nation to which power may be entrusted without mis- giving.”
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"We have genius, but it is dissipated in vain excursions. We have kindness
but without strength of what can our kind- ness avail? We are realists, but but we are caught in a curious miasma A nation of shop- keepers, we have lost our capa- city to add up a bill, and we have forgotten that one day we must render an account.”
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"Perhaps the main reason why I want to see a strong, resurgent England, is because I believe that there is less cruelty in the English character than in other nations psychology Give an Englishman a rife and he will not run amok. Give him After describing his investiga- a whip, and he will be loth totions into various aspects of ne- use it.
Give him authority, and tional life, Mr. Nichols concludes he will make
unnecessary that we are nation without a hero, parade of it.
and he writes sympathetically of "The example of India is, surely, Sir Oswald Mosley and his move- sufficient proof of this, if proof ment. But he rejects anti-Semit- were needed. The inhabitants of ism, and declares that "the fact
• India number 352,837,778. The that Mosley has been forced by his total English population is 293,950. enemies into a position where he Three hundred thousand to police, must be either anti-Semitic or. the major one of administer, supervise and control perish" is 300,000,000! To be precise, one tragedies of our time.
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