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THE CABINET:
SOME DELUSIONS AND
MORAL.
[BY THE RT. HON, CHARLES MASTERMAN.].
A recent episode avoked expressions of wonder as to who attacks and defends it the same policy can be carried out by members of the same Cabinet.
PERVERTING THE YOUNG IDEA.
SECRET "RED" SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.
TEACHING REVOLT TO 500,000 CHILDREN.
Nearly half a million children in Great Britain are having their impressionable minds poisoned by the subversive doc trines preached at schools.
"Red" Sunday
These schools are being established all There would have been no wonder a
over the country. Those directed by the few generations ago. Until nearly the National Council of Socalist Sunday nuddle of the nineteenth century mem-Schools are openly advertised. The Coin- bers of the Cabines, sitting aide by side muaists, whose doctrines are even more on the front beach, could rise and pour vicious, conduct their schools secretly, scorn on the speeches delivered and the often in the homes of notorious Com- attitude adopted by each other, and cop munists clude by voting against each other in different lobbies. Then there came a tightening-up, largely during the latter days of Gladstone, of Lord Salisbury, of Lord Balfour, and Lord Oxford, when every man who hated ar disliked his neighbour was compelled to keep that hatred or dislike within the bit of his bleeding heart.
Later, the Cabinet has developed into greater elasticity, and has even added secretary who is not
member, but who
attends and writes out minutes of meetings, an operation calculated to make
| Gladstone or Diarmeli tarn in their gehvos. Nine people out of ten think that Eng- land is ruled by a committee of more or less distinguished persons. England is not ruled by a committee and never has been ruled by a committee' since the days. when Cromwell found committee rule im- possible and promptly closed up. Parlis- ment altogether?
The Prime Minister.
England is governed by a dictator who is selected by the King. The only condi tion of his dictatorship is that he shall be supported by a majority of the House of Commons. Support in the House of Lords does not count in the måtter, and many Governments have ruled for many years with votes of censure passed against them, in the "Upper House every fortnight.
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The Communist Sunday schools, at which atheism and revolution
are che basic teachings, are made very attractive, and the teachers are experts in child psychology.
While the Socialists in their schools do not presch, atheism directly, they ignore religion and preach class war.
Parents' Disgust.
These schools have increased by 25 per
cant. in the last four years, and they are British Empire Laon to stamp them out. still increasing, despite the efforts of the The acting secretary of the British Empire Eaton said to a Daily Mail reportuni
The parents of the children who ga to these schools have no idea that their sons and daughters are being made into Ninety per cent. of the Communists. parents are horrifed and disgusted when we tell them the true state of affairs; and they quickly take their .children away.
The following are extracts from the teachings at Communist Sunday schools: God is that power which man in his ignorance has called supernatural.
The workers can only raise their status by revolution. They must edac- ate and train themselves to, overthrow the present Class State by force if need be.
Thou shalt not be a patriot, for a patriot is an international blackleg.
Thou shalt teach revolution. Thou shalt wage the class War. The revolutionary teachings of these
and consequently members of Govern- ments often got themselves mocked at for discrepancies between former and pre- sent actions. But the duty of a Minister was to support or to resign.
When the King selects his dictator, that dictator selects from members of His Majesty's Council" (termed the Privy Council, because pledged secrecy) men who will give him advice schools is maintained by eleven, col- as to the government of the country. No leges, which train young men as revolu one interferes with the choice which ho Donary speakers. possesses. Queen Victoria often attempt- ed to veto certain statesmen whom she did not like and to press statesmen of whom she approved. But the Prime Ministers of her day received these bug- gestions with infinite politeness and com- plete neglect. The Prime Minister there fore appoints these advisers to the head- And it was because of the need of this ship of departments or to posts with no freedom of speech that the most extra- taken for administrative work whatever. None of ordinary precautions were these men can turn him out, nor can all secrecy; and that members of the Cabinet of these men, united, turn him out., were bound by the oath as Privy Coun Men talk of the Prime Minister orcillora, not to divulge anything of wha, someone being "outvoted in the Cabi- had occurred in the Council Chamber, an net. Certainly, up to the day when I path which has been lamentably violated All the great windows left it, there was never any voting at of late years. all in the Cabinet. We were invited to were doubled windows, lest there should advise the Prime Minister to the best of be some listener outside. The door of our ability, and generally we gave differ entrance is a double door-lest some word ent advice. But there was no reason why of wisdom or unwisdom sbould be over- he should ever take it, or why he should heard by a listening clerk when the door not declare a policy which no one had opened advised.
A Gladstone Story.
The only thing a minister can do who feels strongly that his rejected advice right is to resign from the Cabinet. Any Minister or all Ministers could resign, from the Cabinet after nay Cabinet meet- ing Any Prime Minister can also de- mand the resignation" of any or all his Ministers and come down to the House of Commons with a completely fresh set. and assert that he had sweps all his pr. vious Cabinet away and replace them by others. And if the House of Commas approved such replacement, he could go merrily on as Prime Minister.
There are no legal difficulties in such course, but only a.practical one, that is, the question whether the dismissal of five or ten powerful politicians would not cause the House of Commons to pass a vote of censure on him. ln Gladstone' Life, it is stated, when he declared for Home Rula, that Harcourt inquired "What Are you prepared to go for. ward without Hartington or Chamber lain ?" He replied "Yes." "I believo it was in my mind to say," he adds, "if I did not actually say it that I was pre: pared to go forward, without anybody.' This was one of the great Imperial ocen sions which call for such resolutions..","
In the blackest Monday of English his tory, in August, 1914, whon threatened resignations were pouring on him like bail, and tempers were getting sharper and sharper, I remember Mr. Asquith dis solving too heated atmosphere with ai characteristic shrug and sniff.. It ap pears that I shall have to carry on the King's Government alone."
This threw unpleasant and sometiming violent exercise on the junior member of the Cabinet in receiving dispatch-boxes. He has solemnly to open the first door. and then shut it, and then open the second door and receive the message or red box; then repeat the process back- ward until it is conveyed the Minister for whom it is designed.
I remember when Europe was rattling Viato war, on an extraordinarily bot August day, with all double windows hermetically sealed, it, was my duty to perform this function almost every three minutes, to convey to Sir Edward Grey the decoded telegrams each recording a deepening catastrophe: as from Serbia to Japan messages poured in, revealing the threats or the actual realisation of the breaking up of the normal life of nations; and the coming in of calamity whose end no one could foresee.
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Cabinet Secrecy.
I think I felt rather like the messengers in the Book of Job who arrived at inter- vals to inform him that first his oxen and asses had been stolen and then that the fire of God had fallen and burnt up his the Chaldeans, in three bands, had fallen sheep and the servants, and then that"
upon the cameis, and finally, that while his sons and daughters were drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, a
great wind from the wilderness had smit- ten the four corners and it had fallen on them and killed them all.
The secrecy extended also to the pro hibition, of any notes being taken and (not in my time) there was rather an un pleasant challenge to a member who was supposed to be taking notes under the shelter of a Cabinet Minister. I remem It is idle, therefore, to talk about a bar when bored, which was not unusual, Government policy or a Cabinet policy, I used to cover good Government blot. The policy is the policy of the Prime ting paper with skeletons and other de Minister-Lord Oxford or Mr. Lloyd corative forms of art. And I think that George, or Mr. Bonar Law or Mr. Bald. there were some of my colleagues who win. It is a policy which, my time, were not a little suspicious that these was wrapped in profound secrecy. It was were cabalistic signs which it was my very often not announced by the Premier intention to reproduce afterwards" in at the conclusion of the discussion. A private diaries. subject would arise, and every man would Mr. Winston Churchill, when not speak. contribute his opinion on that subject, ing, used to manufacture those triangles. and after discussion that subject was put of paper which he can be seen producing aside, and another would come up. And on the front beach in Parliament. But it was because the sense of the meeting I do not think the expenses of hia and not voting was required that mem Majesty's Stationary Office were mater- bers were expected to speak far moreally increased by these queer products," openly and freely what was in their minds for, looking back, I seem seldom to re- than if there had been any report; and member a time when Mr. Churchill was that Ministers were expected to come not enlightening us with his criticisms or afterwards to vote for and even speak his oratory. for policies they had argued vehemently against in this secret gathering.
Support or Resign,”**
No Minister was reckoned as having "played the game" if he absented him: self from voting for or against a measure of which the Prime Minister approved, (Continued on next Column)
When 'can Cabinet secrets be revealed? Only, I suppose, by permission of the King, when a new generation has pushed out the old. We have fairly long" ac counts, printed and published, of the Cabinets up to the end of the musteenth century. The rest is silence, except for unauthorised and unauthentic versions.- Evening Standard.
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