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THERE was once a weekly paper ready to listen to the truth about
called the "Nation," which war-or was edited by an editor named someone starts telling it? Massingham, usually described as
"a fearless Radical." I wrote to this paper just after the end of the war a letter on the harmful effects of glorifying soldiers.
I said that, if we could not give up war, we might at any rate cease from pretending that there anything noble or heroic about it.
was
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Mine was an "extreme" view, but I doubt if it was so "extreme" just after the war as it is to-day.
In London a fe
was brought up d
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He was told he ou Army. At once
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If I had got it published while ister for Foreign the war was on, I should have been gaoled, or possibly shot. But when the middle of las the madness ended, there was more worn slogans of th feeling that all war was stupid and war" are again re beastly than ever prevailed before. portions of the gl "Most of us," I said, "think we For years little attempt was made require meat, but we do not make to persuade people to take the op- heroes of the men who slaughter posite view. Now the glorification sheep and cattle and pigs. We do of war is getting into full swing not dress them up in gaudy uni-
again. forms, or have them march to the slaughter-houses with bands play- ing. Why should we treat differ- ently from the slaughterers of ani- mals those whom we pay to slaugh- ter our fellow-creatures?”
"Let us put soldiers," I urged,
on
force. are
"Armed force," again being used ashamed, as an i tional policy. It i with a brutality ‘a shock and outrage
Not in the Fascist countries only, There it is natural enough. Dicta- stinct." tors who depend obliged to make force appear glori-
Of course, ous, and soldiering an ideal occupa- have been used to policies. But not tion for red-blooded men.
so openly as Hitle
"into the same sort of blue costume
But now the apologists of war, use them. that butchers wear; and let us give the advocates of violence, are rais-
up pretending that they are any ing their voices again in non-Fas-
art
Their behaviour
thing but butchers, hired to kill cist lands. Signs appear in many not in the least men-children and women as well quarters. Trivial some of them, but Chamberlain or a if they are in the Air Force; or taken together they are significant. his dummy Cabine that dictators do r compelled to kill without hire in countries where compulsory service
is in force.”
At Hollywood they are to make cause they are ag no more films showing up the hate- That is the key to fulness and idiocy of war. The tish policy during Massingham was not "fearless" picture companies are said to have eight years. enough to print my letter. I don't had a hint from the United States blame him. Ho ageed, with me, so Government. he said, but he had public opinion to consider, and public opinion was not ready yet for such plain speak- ing.
During that per section of the Ca In London a new toilet article is tional has been ad being advertised by posters. These policy. It allowed represent users of it as men in uni- China, Italy to seiz form-of course, officers" uniform-ler to abolish Ausí with splendid features and an air Czechoslovakia, H ever be of nobility about them.
lini together to dej
I think he was right about that, but will public opinion
Bringing Up Father
NOW-LOOK AT THAT – HE IS TOO LAZY TO EVEN HOLD. A LINE-SWELL
CHANCE OF CATCHIN' FISH THAT WAY
HUH-MAGGIE'S BROTHER- HIS SNORING DRIVES TH’ FISH AWAY-IF HE CAUGHT A FISH-HED WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE CAME AROUND TO HAUL IT IN-LET'S GIT AWAY FROM HERE - BILL-
WELL I DON'T THINK THERE ARE ANY FISH IN HERE-WE BEEN AT FIVE HOURS NOT A BITE
YEP-WE MIGHT AS WELL GO HOME-TH TIDE 15 GOIN' OUT SO THAT MEANS NO
FISH--
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