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FRANCE AND BRITAIN
us of one of our scars when he says that the level of education and know- There was a widely prevalent view
ledge is higher in every class in of the Englishman in the nineteenth France than in Britain. Why is this? century which made him indifferent The Industrial Revolution, following
alike to the cares, and to the culture of Europe. When Turgeniev wanted to describe a Russian Anglomaniac in he his novel "A Nest of Nobles" drew an unpleasant picture of our characteristics, "....the sour expres- sion of his face, something abrupt and at the same time indifferent in
on the social changes that had given the English the most powerful aristoc- racy in the world and depressed the vitality of common life, corrupted and almost destroyed the idea of humane culture: the idea, that is, of education as something other than the training
his behaviour, his way of speaking of one class to serve another. Neither through his teeth, his sudden wooden
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the quarrel between the Revolution and the Church did not arise over the fundamental ideas of the Revolution
clusively political or politico-econo-
been struggling ever since with the mical conversation, his passion for consequences. But though the Indus- trial Revolution had many bad effects roast beef and port wine-everything
it did not destroy the instinctive about him breathed, so to speak, of
British feeling for liberty. If we turn Great Britain." This novel was writ-
to the French Revolution we see that ten in the fifties, About the same time
is left bitter divisions that still afflict Tocqueville had a conversation with
French politics. But those divisions his close friend the English economist
leave a certain common spirit intact. Nassau Senior about the attitude of
Mr. Belloc showed in his famous little the Continent to the Indian Mutiny. book on the French Revolution that He spoke of the conviction of all na- tions that England considers them only with reference to her own great ness, that she is less sympathetic than any other nation, that she never notices what they think, feel, suffer, or do, but with relation to the use Eng- land can make of their actions, their feelings, their sufferings,
or their thoughts, and that when she seems most to care for them she really cares only for herself. All this is exagger- schools and its dramatic expression in the Revolution, emerges clearly from ated but not without truth." It would
Lord Crewe's picture. And to-day- not be difficult to find in the speeches
Britain and France are united as never of Palmerston in the middle of the before, for they are defending, against century or those of Joseph Chamber-
what M. Daladier well calls "lunatic lain at its close examples of the tone dreams," the two ideas, liberty and and habit of mind that spread this equality; that are so integral a part impression of John Bull. On the other of their histories. hand there is a contrary- nineteenth- If we think of ourselves as adult century tradition. We have only to peoples, peoples with a long experi- read the rival arguments of Palmer- ence of self-government, the Nazi and ston and Gladstone on the Suez Canal the Fascist think of us as decadent or of Chamberlain and Gladstone on peoples, peoples who have spent their Ireland to appreciate the difference. No 'energy. This will be brought to the Continental statesman had a stronger test in the war
feeling than Glad-
-the dignity of man and the equality of men-but from the circumstances of France and 'the scandals of the French Church at the time. This truth, that there is a common spirit in France-a spirit of which you can find the source in her twelfth-century
A MISTAKE
stone for Europe or a deeper interest in her religion and culture. His special There were many Members on sympathies in both sides of the House who felt literature and that the Government had been learning drew him mistaken In diamlesing with auch to France and Italy levity the Labour demand for a as Bryce and revised War Cabinet and a more Such Haldane were forceful economic control. drawn by theirs to people felt that the essential pro- Germany.
blem Of this
our war whether Gladstonian tradi- economy should be provided with tion Lord Crewe is a gigantlo dynamo or subjected the most eminent to a perfected filter. They feared.
that Sir John Simon, in prefer- representative. The picture he gives ring the filter, was influenced by of France based on the delight which he would ex- his knowledge of perience in watching our econo- her history and cul- mic energy oozing through the ture and on his Treasury drop by drop.-Harold
her contact with
Nicolson, M.P. politics during the
war
last
The and after it. democracies are not merely fighting a defensive battle. The ideals they are defending must be defended first by successful war and then by suc- cessful reconstruc- tion. In the war victory fell to the more liberal peoples, but their failures after the
have left war Europe which must either turn into something much better or into some- thing much worse than the Europe we know to-day. A recent writer has pointed out that
a
six difficult years when he was Ab- what enabled the Thirteen American · bassador in Paris, serves a valuable States to make a success of their purpose, at a moment when the mutual
understanding of the two democracies federation was that they had a com- is essential to the success of their mon task in the development of common task
great continent beyond the Alleghenies.
It is possible to see from this picture: Europe is for the man with construc- Lys Gauty, in what the strength of France con- tice ideas like a great undeveloped sists. M. Daladier spoke of France estate. Can the two democracies take L'Accordeoniste. the other day as an adult nation, and the lead in a great enterprise for rais- M. Reynaud shows by his courage and ing the level of common life through- L'Accordeoniste.candour how an adult. nation should out Europe, for putting an end to
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be led. France and Britain are both economic and political anarchy, and old nations, peoples, that is, that con- for giving liberty and equality a sub- solidated their unity long before Ger- stance and significance they have many. Both of them passed through never yet acquired? For the way to a great disturbance: the French defend liberty and equality as Ideas Revolution. In one case, the Industrial is to make them effective as forces in Revolution in the other. Both nations the life of man,--"Manchester Guar- bear the scars. Lord Crewe reminds dian.".
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