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In speech, in irony, in fact a fiction, "A metaphor intended to express
PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1920.
THE ENGLISH CHARACTER ƒ give his account of an Englishman's pedi MR RUDYARD KIPLING'S VIEWS.e, but, in his gumming up of the brun-
born Englishman, he says:- The festival dinner of the Royal Society of St. George. held on April 23rd, at the Connaught Rems, did more than atletapt. to recapture the ainusphere of " Merrie England" it succeeded. Not only did the company include öffliers and sailor who are worthy successors to those who made the name of Enghind great 500 years agoy all the power of Suggestion, which could be exerted by the characteristic material concomitants of those far-away days was enlisted to express the real signi. Benner of St. George's Day, Mames of red and white roses graced the tables, and each diner wore a posy of similar flowers, The chairman was heralded by a roll druns, D'ye ken John Peel
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manakin to all the aniverse. in that last line Defoe, I think, has slipped into a bessing where he meant to curse for be wholly ile He must have some points a man akin to all the universe cannot
of contact with humanity; and the English- man has had several,
of ship-keeping; the Romans taught him The Phenicians taught him the elements love of sport by hiring him to fight beasta in their arenas Under the Heptarchy. unenlightened days consisted in raising a ho studied social reform, which in those levy on capital, to bay off the heathen of the North Sea from taking direct action against English industries. (Laughter.) and colloquial and law French under eminent He next took a 300 years course of
Here's a health unto his Majesty and Norman teachers. He did not learn the the Hoast Beet of Old England -was¦ language then or since, but it left him sarried found the hath to the sound of with a profound respect. based on ex druzy and file, under a guard of stalwart perience, for his neighbours across the Grenadiers and Bee-eaters. This escort Channel, and conviction which time was drawn from the King's Company of has deepened that they were the only other the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream people in the world who really mattered. Guards, very sons of Apak, who were For 500 years his domestic and foreign habited in the quaint Grenadier headdress policy was largely controlled by Italian, of Queen Anne's day and in the beef: French, and Spanish, with occasional ester uniform of the Tuder period Austrian politico-cclesiastical authori Borne aloft at the bead of the procession ties, who tried to teach him that this by a gigantic standard-bearer was the realm of England was but part of a banner of St. George, with its great red vast international organisation all the cross surmounted by a wreath of roses emb.acing, instructing, and protecting 'all The fact that the festival was also Shak- the world. He escaped from these em- 'speare's birthday was no forgotten, and braces only" to be subjected to the full the sant The Immortal Memory of rigour of the Puritan conscience, which Elaarspeare and other Great English was then largely directed by gentlemen mewasinccorded the honour due to it, from Geneva. Leyden, Amsterdam, and Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who presided and the Low Countries. While thus employed submitted the toast of the evening, Eng. he was, under pretext of union, inally and land, in the course of his speech gave a
fatally subjugated by the Scots. (Laugh- keen, witty analysis of the English character.) A few years later he embarked on the swelling tide of party polities in "äll their purity, silice when he has rarely been allowed to look backward-and actor
ter.
THE KING'S DESKTO
In the course of the evening the follow. ing mewage was sent to the King: “ Mem-{ bars of the Royal Society of St. George. ia namber approaching 400, dining in hanour of St. George's England's Day, Shakespeare's Day, and the same-day of your Majesty, with all loyalty and dero tion present their humble duty to their King and patron."
To thin the following reply was re
ceived:
والو
Please express to the members of the Royal Soci of St. George who are dining together this evening my heart felt thanks for their
AAJUTADOS
loyalty and deration convoyed to me the kind and felicitous-terms-of-your
message.
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forward.
BIRTH OF THE EMPIRE
I subm's that such a nightmare of national experiences would have driven anmixed race to the edge of unsay. But the Englishman, like a built up gun- barrel, is all one temper though welded of diferent materials," and he has strong powers of resistance (Cheers) Roman Norman. Papist. Cromwellian, Start, Hollander, Hanoverian aristocracy, mid declass and democracy, each in turn. through a thousand years experimented on him and tried to make him to their own liking. He met each in turn with a large tent toleration which they each in turn mistook for native stupidity. He gave By wireless, through the kind offices of them each a fair trial. and when the Admiralty, a Demage was sent to that he had quite finished. with them. Prince of Wales, as follows: "The Royalir dismisal. Ar an additional safe. Society of St. George, celebrating card he built up a social system George's Day under the chairmanship of divided into watertight compartments, Mr Rudyard Kipling, yally wish their to arranged that neither the water of president a prosperous journey and safe public parie nor the fire of private. return to Engl•od,”
rovinge should sweep his ship of state To the New York Branch the following from end to end. And if in spite of all cable was sent Record "dinner and much for him, he could always go to res this, the domestic situation became too chairmanship of Rudyard Kipling. Celtic disloyalty and ineptitude strengthening home-rule for England. No beprarchy. Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks,"
and there seek or impose the peace which the Papal Legate, the medieval trade union, or a profligate Chancellor of the Exchequer denied him at home. (Laugh- ter.)
Following the cordial reception of the health of "The King," the Bishop of And thus, gentlemen-not in a fit of Birmingham proposed the other loyal absence of mind-was the Empire born. toast. and emphasised the fact that the It was the outcome of the relaxations of Prince of Wales was -president of the persecuted specialista, men who for one society. The qualities of bis Royal High cause or another were unfit for the rough- news were in no small measure dne, he and-tumble of homelife. They did it in said, to his splendid bringing up by his earch of rest and change, mach as we go mother, (Chers.) There was no want for summer holidays, and, like ourselves, About the Prince of Wales; he was himself. they took their national habits with them. He entered easily into the position of the They did not often gather together with other man and was his point of vies harps and rebecks to celebrate their That was more than tact: it was realitnational glories or hymn their national knowledge, intuitive and developed by pro hero. When they did not. like ourselves, per trainine. (Cheers,).
take them both for granted, they generally
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Mr. Ruder Kipling, submitting the denied the one and tried to impeach the toast England," "aid: This is another. But by some mysterious rule of retaion when it lichoves all of us present, thumb-magic they did establish and main- to walk circumspectly. If you will retain a reasonable peace and security me. I will try to give you the reason why. among simple folk in many parts of the Fifteen or xteen hundred years ago. world, and that without overmuch murder, when Rome was mistress of the world, and oppression, or torture. the Picts and the Scols" kept to their own the success of the English was due to their It may be that side of the Great Roman Wall between imperturbable tolerance. (Cheers.) Carlisle and Newcastle, the story goes the breed that has been persecuted, or what Rome allowed all these peoples one night come to the same thing, bored by every in the year when they could say alou persecuted refugee to whom it has ever exactly what they thought of Rome, witt- giren asylum, learns to tolerate anything out fear of consequences, On that on Their immensely mixed origins made them, night, then they crops out of the heather too, in a real asse, akin to all the uni in droves. lit their little wandering fires, vers, and sympathetic in their dumb -and-criticiodTM the Libyan Generals, the fashion towards remote peoples and oman pontiffs, and the Eastern eam,trange gods. Above all. their long in- followers who looked down on them from sular experience of imported brain-storms the top of the huge unbreakable Roman had taught them the wisdom of the old Wall sixteen hundred years ago. To-day proverb that mea should not try to do Imperial Home is dead : the Wall is down; better than good for fear lest worse than
Piets and the Scots are on this side bad might follow..
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of it, but, thanks to the Royal Society of, There has been a good deal of worse than St. George, there is still ene night in the bad in the world lately. Our national year when the English can creep out of weakness for taking the easiest way till their hiding places and whisper in each the last possible moment, sooner than other what we think about oursele inconvenience ourselves or our neighbours, (Choers,) -No!" It is safer not to criticise has been visited upon us in full measure, our masters, who tax us, educate ns, and After ninety-nine years of peace there try ns, and minister abundantly to what came a day when the English were given they instruct ur our wants ought to be less than ninety-six hours to choose whether (Laughter.) Since these masters of ours they would buy a little longer peace from have not quite the old untroubled as the heathen in the North, as their fathers ance of power and experience which made had bought it, or take peace with them Picts and the Scots lived on the other side race they had forgotten how to say No" Home so tolerant in the days when the as our King Alfred had made it. As a of the Wall, we will confine, ourselves into anyone who said "Yes" in a sufficirat- own popular and well-recognised by loud voice they had quite forgotten defects as a breed,
that they bad broken & Church, killed one EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH.
king, closed a Protectorate, and exiled Some of our sternost critics, who, ofnother king sooner than be driven where course, have always been of our own house they did not desira to go. But, when their bold, say there never was such a thing hour came again, they decided once again. ar the English race-that it is at best the and once again by instinct, to go their own intolerably insolent outcome of ancient way, for, once again, they had prepared. invasions and immigration, freshened with nothing, they had foressen nothing. They more recont Continental" gaol-deliverice had been survy that not only was there Far be it from me to traverse these state need for preparation against war, but ments. I give them on no less authority that the mere thought of it was absurd than that of the late Mr. Daniel Defoe, where it was not criminal. Thereinre, a fiveryman of the City of Tondon, and through the first two years of the war, it Buthor of Robinson Crusoe and a pamphlets necessary to throw up a barricad called the Trueborn Englishman Ho of the dead bodies of the nation's your deals with the English very faithfully-o behind which the most elementary pre- faithfully that, in deference to the susparations could be begun. critibilities of other peoples, 1 will not
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