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TRUTH WILL BE SERVED
governments the truth about the peaceful purposes of every people is more than ever needed.
History promises that truth will find a way. What is good about every nation, race, and system will become known as surely as better ways of husking corn or bottling milk spread from man to man, nation to na- tion. The outlook for nations understanding and knowing each other may appear discouraging at times. But even before print- ing came, teachers and scholars were breaking through the bar- riers between countries. It is unbelievable that with radio and plane peoples can long be made to fear and fight by misinforma- tion about each other.
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In an age when the world en- joys such magnificent means of getting and transmitting inform-A Christmas Road Race ation it is an anomaly that for| millions the truth should be
Turkeys and geese these days hard to come by.. Even where mostly arrive at England's Christ- there is free speech, press and mas markets by train or motor- radio are used to some extent to lorry, but in the days before mislead or incite rather than to those methods of transport were inform. Especially in the field of invented they had to travel by international relations does full road, sometimes more than
100 and free discussion run into ob-miles. It must have been a long stacles.
and weary job for the drovers There have been several recent (and also for the unfortunate examples. One is the current birds), but some of the flocks difficulty Germany is having in made remarkably good time. sensing British and American Lord. Oxford, Horace Walpole's feeling about the drive on the brother, once won a wager when Jews.
he backed a drove of geese to beat a similar number of turkeys in a race by road from Norwich to London.
to
Japan has long had a belief that "dangerous thoughts" should be suppressed. Apparently for eign protests against Japanese The turkeys moved faster than interference with third power their opponents while day-light rights in China are considered lasted, but at dusk they insisted something that the Japanese on flying into roadside trees people could not bear to hear. roost while the geese plodded on. Rigorously all totalitarian In the end the turkeys arrived at states endeavour to guard their their destination 'two days behind people from information or views the geese. Motorists who com which might be disturbing or plain of the congestion on the cause questioning of government-roads can thank their stars that al policy.
flocks of geese and turkeys no During the Czechoslovakian longer add to the pre-Christmas crisis there was more than one traffic problem. occasion when the Italian and German Governments apparently
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felt that it would be unwise for King John's Party their people to get the full im- pact of news or opinion in other The modest Christmas lun- countries. Mr. Chamberlain's cheon proposed for Sandringham statement that the Godesberg de- would have seemed meague fare mands were “unreasonable" fail- indeed to some of the King's an- ed to appear in Berlin newspa-cestors. King John's Yuletide pers. Nor was the text of Pre-feast in 1213 was held at a time sident Roosevelt's peace appeal when the papal intediet was over to Chancellor Hitler made known the land, but that did not spoil fully and immediately. There the season of good cheer to any was some danger that the Ger- great extent. The royal orders in- man people would be plunged cluded the provision of 40 oxen, into war without knowing that 500 lambs, 200 deer, 420 head of every other country concerned pork, 5,000 fowls, with pheasants was asking for peaceful adjust-and partridges "in proportion," ment of the Sudeten question.. 10,000 salt eels, 15,000 herrings In "Mein Kampf," Hitler and other fish, together with 100 points out the bad effects on the pounds of almonds, 50 pounds of German soldier in the World War pepper, and other condiments. of propaganda which gave him a Twenty-seven hogsheads of false impression of the enemy. wine and large quantities of ale He says that when actual con-were needed to wash down these tact disclosed the truth, the few eatables, and 2,000 ells of German soldier "felt he had been linen
requisitioned for deceived by the fabricators of tablecloths: One wonders what his information.” To-day any sort of a spread John would have Government runs a similar risk arranged had he been on really if it creates among its people a good terms with his spiritual ad- false impression of other nations visers!
were
or keeps out accurate informa- | But, then, the art of the tren- tion about the feeling and pur- cherman, like many another thing poses of other nations. This ap- in this decadent age, is "not what plies to the democracies as well it was." Our for-bears of much as the totalitarian states.
more recent times than those of Let no one easily assume that King John appear to have pos- the efforts of false nationalism to sessed fairly hearty appetites. twist or shut out the truth do One notable example from the not need active counter efforts. eighteenth century is the wager New means of communication between Sir John Lade and “Old carry untruth as well as truth. Q" for a stake of a thousand The radio to-day can convene a guineas on the issue of whose town meeting of the world and man should eat the most at a bring into every home tyranniz- sitting. It is not recorded what ing threats of war which may be each man consumed, but ・ “Old · more effective than any weapon Q's" champion won by the com- diplomacy has ever wielded. fortable margin of “a pig and ' Against the warlike gestures of lan apple-pie.”