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When France surren- DURING the past decade, sundry i ever the descendants of the Saxon personalise the Crown again. Bri-concept-declared as early as 1764 dered to Germany and British writers have politely race has gone, have sailed ortain paid for the transition In the that the real tie which bound the Italy sprang heroically to deplored their fellow-country- otherwise made their way, even loss of her American colonies. American colonies to the Mother.
men's alleged ignorance of Ameri-to the remotest regions of the In share the prey of the con- can history. Logically however, world, they have been patient, George III tried to force the bond through the British Crown.
the eighteenth century Country, was free-will allegiance queror, there were anxie- British ignorance of American his persevering, never to be broken of overseas dominion by the bayo-In other words, he forecast what ties in the world lest the it may appear to certain ultra-from enterprises on which they it in "fee simple" by the forcement accepted more than
tory is natural, however shocking in spirit, never to be turned aside net; while to-day, George VI holds George V and the British Governe. sea and air power of the patriotic groups of United States have resolved. In Europe, Asia, of sentiment and mutual self-in-hundred and sixty years later. Duce, stiffened by the citizenry; the fact that the States Africa, on the sea; scorched by a terest.
In every essential, therefore, the represent British offspring is' con- burning sun, or frozen by ice that Returning to Dickens's summary democracy of the British Domi- Fuehrer's resources and siderably blurred by the circum- never melts; the Saxon blood re- of Anglo-Celtic achievement, one nions resembles the democracy in orders, should compel the stance that something over a cen-mains unchanged. Wheresoever has but to glance at the globe to- the United States to-day.
tury and a half ago the offspring British Navy to abandon sprang off.
day to realise that except for a few bright spots, political liberty can concept since the war be
If anything, the prosent Ameri- the Mediterranean.. A few
and freedom of conscience is to tween the States, is the more im- months of Italian effort
be found in its fullest development perialistic, for here no State may in English-speaking countries, of has made it clear to our
which, thanks to John Cabot's dis- Union, as against that right or withdraw from the American friends, to neutrals and to
thustry, and safety that race goes, there law, and in-covery of the North-American privilege freely accorded Do-
for life and | continent under an Anglo-Celtic the enemy that the com-
property, and all the great results king, the United States is one. of steady perseverance are certain. mand of Mediterranean
to arise." waters, western, central and eastern, is held by our squadrons.
our
On the other hand, American. ignorance utterly inexcusable, for from Eng- of English history is land Americans have derived not. legal procedure; but also the basis only their language, customs and for their free representative in- stitutions, the most precious pos- session
of.. any liberty-loving
Having thus stated the case for
which has
ships. The result is that siderable bulk, in
teenth-century volume of con-
By Matthew Page Andrews
Dickens wrote for children in warmly inspirational rather than tin
age when textbooks were
coldly scientific, and, in so doing, he emphasised the truth of history rather than its facts.
as virtues..
minion.
Asia.
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A certain class of Americans Yet, while the writer recognises talk much, often with Pharisaical the world civilising qualities and smugness, about ideas of interna- civilised people.
unparalleled political achieve- American acquaintance with Eng-
inclined to deprecate the emotionists seem incapable of visualis
tional comity as practised in the ments of the British nation, he is western hemisphere. These isola lish history, this writer, at least,
tional. and rather ostentatious Mussolini
ing a Nazled Reich on our bord- set great growing tendency in
now ventures to deplore the long-
idealisation of Great Britain ers! In so talking, they use a American
shown by some Americats. store and spent much schools and colleges to minimise In one matter only may one at-
Like the Americans, the Eng-American superiority to ""these peculiarly smug phrase implying money on his submarines. Anglo-American origins. Perhaps tempt to improve upon the Dick-Jish are practical, and
this tendency,
govern European family quarrels." His reward is the loss of a noticeable in the past few
been ensian summation, and that is in ments, as such, are not primarily Knowing less and less about de the substitution of the compara- actuated by altruistic motives English history and traditions,
• fifth of them without any subtle workings of what has in for "Saxon" or "Anglo-Saxon"; for abound in shortcomings
cades, is to some extent due to the tively rare term "Anglo-Celtic"
Both countries. and peoples
many of the younger generation- achievement of note. He Europe been
as well cannot grasp the thought that called the "Fifth after the invasion of the Angles, advertised the largest ex-
Column,"
there would not only be no fear Saxons and Jutes,
"The British Empire" was the of war but absolute, assurances of The writer was brought up on union with the native Briton that writer began this rather rambling the ideals of modern British de
it was their pectations from flinging Goodrich's
original title under which the world peace with freedom-if "Great Events in brought forth the his air force upon
American History," an early nine- races.
best in both
resume; but the "British Common- On Britain's soil the stolidity wealth of Nations" makes clearer Mocracy held sway in Europe and which the and hard ruthlessness of the Teu-
to Americans the true nature of our naval guns and air-American Revolution
I will not slander the real was the ton was modified by contact with the British concept and what Bri
ostrich but I would compare them craft have brought down plece de resistance. No more de- the emotional, imaginative, and accomplishment means to the to the fictional bird that buries its
lightfully chauvinistic chronicle spiritual qualities inherent in the
world to-day. at least 50 Italian bomb- was ever written. Hardly any Celt.
head on the approach of a poten- ers and sustained no dam-American Patriots; nothing too dern England survived the grace-ions from Newfoundland to New actual and very active propagan-
was too extravagant for the
The present status of the Com-tial toe. Persistently warned And be it remembered that mo-monwealth's wide-flung Domin-ngainst "British propaganda" by age of importance.
black with which to paint the Bri- Jessness of the Hanoverian Georges Zealand was predicated or anti-dists backed by Berlin, this de As for the Italian fleet, tish and their hirelings.
who introduced the Teuton aloof- cipated by the Virginian, Richard luded element seems incapable of Happily, however, through the ness into the English Court and Bland, a truly great Anglo-Ameri-understanding what' a totalitarian it has shunned contact at companionate study of English first removed it from the people can political philosopher, who un- triumph in Europe would mean the top of its speed and history is idealised picture of It took their descendants in the der George III-a monarch not far for the world even in the west-
the embattled farmers, was yet three or four capital beside a similarly idealised story
set third and fourth generations to enough removed from the Tautónern hemisphere! Ships have been immobil- of the extension of the British do- main-and the combination was ised, its fastest cruiser and by no means incompatible! three others and twenty to-day, as the American child of In fact, the American youth of destroyers have
been yesterday, has a right to be in- sunk. It has been im-spired by a review of a double
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Towards A Christian World Order
THIS present War has, amongst other things, forced all think-
greater intensity the implications
potent to prevent the' de/heritage, of which one part is ing Christians to consider with |
illustrated in "A Child's History
of the
corners of the earth. The writer
One of the most fundamental of all these considerations is that of the family unity of the Church resulting from the common shar- ing of each member in the divine life of Christ.
struction of a number of of England," wherein Charles of their membership of the Chris- supply ships and the shat-pitomised the significanwerfully, tian Church, and four of the Re-family of God; and secondly, by Christ had not refused to enter tering bombardment of expansion of the British Empire solutions to be considered by this stating the fundamental issues in into a sinful world and to endure ports and communica-over the Seven Seas into the four Council bear witness to the re-such a way that men's consciences the consequences of so doing; and
sults of such thinking.
will be aroused and the moral and those who were His could only tions of the halted army! knows of no child of the rising
spiritual atmosphere. created, follow him, Freedom could only of Libya, while British generation who has read this book.
without which the better policies be retained, and redemption could Is it lost to English children, as
will assuredly come to nothing."only be won, if men were ready to convoys have brought our well?
Readers of the life of Franic fight on behalf of others and offer troops in the Near East Omitting the details of English
Weston, Bishop of Zanzibar, will themselves in their defence, (From their reinforcements un-achievement in words that should shortcomings, Dickens wrote of
recall how he found himself in the "Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar, by H. scathed. So far is Musso- continue to uplift the soul of every the true goal of history: but the paign in the last Var.
"World-unity is no mirage but thick of the East African Cam- Maynard Smith). English-speaking child from Lon world has been seeking it along
The desire at the heart of our lini from the realisation don to Melbourne-regardless of the wrong road. We have tried to doubt about the righteousness of fore, must always be our supreme
Bishop Weston then had no Lord for us His children; there of his dream that the Me- his racial origin so long as he secure union through material Great Britain's cause or of the concern. diterranean would ever be hopes to enjoy the usufructs of links, instead of basing it on a duty of fighting for it. In 1917 he
Anglo-Celtic freedom his sea.
and pro- spiritual relationship.. It seems ds all in whom "all the best, ter of the Church in our cars: "All
gress.
fred,"
books,
"The secret of our Lord's tre- mendous moral 'influence nvas. His
trust in the inherent gootiness of
man, a trust which persisted in spite of every temptation to aban“. don it. In our ordinary personal contacts, we find, as a rule, that in proportion to the faith we have our influence on other people is in them. The conception of the that exactly the same thing would family unity of humanity suggests prove true in the relations of
Mr. Churchill made the
Going back to "the great Al- though we shall have to beg By The Rt. Rev. right reply to the Italian points of the English Saxon authority hath been given unto
C. D. Horsley bid for a share in Ger- character were first encouraged," nie in heaven and on earth. Go ge
Dickens truly stated that: "Wher- therefore, and make disciples of was asked to write a small book many's ungained victory when he announced that among the achievements the name of the Father and of the and in a few days produced "Con
all the nations, baptising them in on the roligious attitude to war, we should maintain to the of the British Navy. Son and the Holy Ghost: teaching quering and to Conquer," the sim
them to observe all things whatso-plest and most popular of his full our control of the Let us not minimise the ever I commanded you: and lo, I Middle.. Sea, and almost task that lies before it. the end of the world. The failure of Eternal Love. He repudiated one nation with another. That the
am with you, always, even unto Here he set forth his conception doubled the effective Great as the strength strength of our Fleet the Navy is, and growing science, a common material civili- punishing His disobedient peb-grossly vlolated for many parts of there. Sir Andrew Cun- greater day by day, it has lectual progress, is proof of the sword. He ropudiated also
sation, a common path of intel-ple by famine, pestilence, and the the world to-day does not really the Invalidate the general conclusion, ningham has swept its to hold the Mediterranean need of a common spiritual rela- engy-going Divinity who should since it is being violated as the waters again and again in with force sufficient for a "Union of Christendom," an essay War showed that the God, so
tionship to make men one." (From make everybody comfortable. The esult of fear." triumph, and his gallant grand action, to keep pow-by G. D. Rosenthal).
It should be realised that the many were prepared to Worship, Church has never since the first- Cruiser captains have erful squadrons at home, Despite the setback which the did not exist. He recalled men to ages Interpreted the Gospel as to made the most of every to guard the narrow Wa-encing by the propagators of the Calvary. It was there they were sensus of Catholic theologians has world-as-a-whole, is now expert- the God revented in the Christ on preach pure Pacifism. The con- opportunity. The advan- ters round our island, to gospel of Xotalitarianism and to find the God of Love,
held war to be permissible, though tages which Mussolini fight the submarine cam-always learn to look beyond the War seemed to him as irrelevant they allow its lawfulness are so racialism, 'we, as Christians, must "To ask why God permitted the the conditions under which counted upon from the paign and still have ships immediate present and think in us to ask why God created men stringent that probably most wars betrayal of Britain by the on all the seven seas. terms of the mind of Christ, Whose with freedom of will and did not in the pust have been unjust wars, men of Vichy are inade Long months of ceaseless is in heaven.
Will shall be done on earth as it resume His gift. The Wor was 1110. In the present condition of the - result of men's self-will, and God, world, however, the Church can- quate to make good the vigilance and intense hard "Then we can best help forward as on Calvary, was man's victim not condemn war entirely, until inferiority and losses of work lie ahead. The fu- World-Order by getting back to Cross, was bringing good out of for settling all disputes between the establishment of a Christian And yet, Eternal Love, os on the there is adequate legal machinery his fleet. When we consi- ture will bring vicissi- first principles, and by Insisting evil. Love was being triumphant States, and an adequate interna- der how great those ad- tudes, but what has been that no plans for peace, economic through its capacity for sacrifice. tional police force to execute the or political, will be of permanent "Such being the case, he could decisions of the legitimató au- vantages were it will be done already assures us value unless they are accompanied not understand how any could thority, and above all a will to seen that the supremacy that the Navy will hold by a change of heart. The call to stand aside. In the War, he did not respect and obey Laws which are which Sir Andrew Cun- for us "an Empire none ningham's squadrons can take. The realm of maintain ranks high the circling sea.
the Church to-day is to help to see the Will of God, but the in-made for the benefit of mankind
bring about the change; Arst by evitable consequences of man's as a whole. At the same time repenting of its own disunion, so sin. That sin had yet to be over there is he doubt at all in which that it can once more be an ex- | come and the woria hau sun to direction the influence of the emplar to the world of the united be redeemed by blood und teurs. Church ought to be directed.