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TIP the rebels Hats off to the
Dons! I am heart and
with the rebels in the Spanish Capt. McCullagh
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wet and took himself very seriously. but was really weak, vain, a dreamer, unsound of judgment, a catastrophe to his country in that time of crisis. Behind the orator stood a Mon, a man of few words but strong charie- ter; a man who sincerely believed in an ideal of Government which, if put into practice, would ruin the world; a ruthless and determined man; the most dangerous and formidable re- volutionary that ever lived. That Phone 27778/9 man was Lenin.
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Allowed Themselves
To be Butchered
Lenin bribed the simple-minded people with cheques for unlimited amounts on the Bank of Illusions, with prophecles of a world in which there would be no war, no want, no hunger, no oppression, no armies, no masters. Slowly the army was de- moralised, the Generals and officers retired, disarmed, isolated, Then the slaughter began, and it did not stop owners, priests, women, children, inembers of the Intelligentsia. Liberals, Socialists event.
The Red Terror was unloosed, but worse that the Terror in the eyes of those foreign observers who hater Bolshevism and wanted moderation to prevail was the sheen-like jussivity
Which
White Russions the with allowed themselves to be butchered.
A very large proportion of them were military men in the prime of vigorous manhood, magnificent speel- mens physically, yet, as if hypnotised, they let all sorts of weedy Bolshevik wastrels cut their throats without any effort at resistance. Even the Lettish and Tartar executioners expressed contempt for them. One sympathetle American diplomatist could not re- frain from recording in print his utter and unmitigated disgust. The Spaniards
Fit Back
CAPT. Francis McCullagh, Irish
Fans McCullo
famous living war correspond- ents.
Always on the spot when up- heavals break out, he was special correspondent for the New York Herald during the Russo- Japanese War: New York Evening Post correspondent dur- ing the Portuguese Revolution in 1910, when King Manoel abdicated, at Agadir; it Tripali; in the Balkan War, (in which he was captured).
After serving in the World War, he went to Russin. Was captured by the Bolsheviks while retreating, with Kolchak's army. After 'release, went to Moscow again in 1922 but WIR pelled for his reports of the trial of Mgr, Cleplak.
Spain Next:
Lenin's Prophecy
pouring
Trained Bolshevik agitators have berni
into
since Spain February last, and one of them stated last sprint that, on a certain date in the month of July. Hell would be let touse In Spala. He even gave the exact date, General Franco was right is declaring war on Hell, before it declared war on him.
Karl Rare, one of the leading Bol- sheviks, told me once at dinner in the British Erbesay
In Moscow that Spain would be the Drst country in Europe to go Red. I inughed at his proplicey, or gather, at Lenin's pro- phecy, for Radek was only repeating a famous sealchce uttered by Lenin, for I bellaved that ultra-Catholic Spala was us safe from Bolshevism as ultra-Catholic Ireland.
But he was right. He had seen the secret reports that came from Spain to the Kremlin, and he had seen the commis-voyageurs of revolution whe
had actually been in Spain.
Later
on I became aware of the intense and silent activity of the Russian Rolcheviks in the Iberian Peninsula, and now that I look back on that infernal activity in the Hght of present happenings, I shudder, for It seems to me like the silent, in- defatigable activity of "death beetles" aling away the timbers supporting the roof of an ancient building.
Justification
For Rising
came
Let mo pause here to remark that the idea of the Popular Front, which Moscow. from admittedly proves Usal thers lives to-day in the Kremlin a revolutionary chief who la far ahler, subtler and more dangerous than his predecessor, the real revolu tionary chief who lies embalmed in the Red Square.
en. It is an idea of genius, for 11 sbica
ol united Konult
STOUP Bolsheviks to dominate a large, dia- united body of Socialia, adicals, Liberals, Nalinnallats, Separatla and Trade Unionists, and finally to treat them with utter contempt. Capital Scized
Megally
To return to the illegal seizure of the Capital by armed Reds. The Union Militar Espanola was not so abby as the army of Kerensky. It had decided beforehand out what to do
The circumstances in which they struck have not been made clear by the military leaders, in the first place bechuse none of them has shown the in case the Reds seized power. It had Journalistle aptitude of the Reds; and concocted a very good plot.
Now, of Conservative plots in the In the second place because all the Iberian Peninsula I happen to know necounts we have had so far of the something, for about a quarter of a origins of the war, have come from century ago I was acquainted with Madrid, end bear traces of
Madrilenian mendacity. Even honest some of the Portuguese monarchists and impartial correspondents have who were trying to restore King Manoel to his throne. I went a num- been unconsciously influenced by the her of times lo Spain and Portugal atmosphere of Madrid.
in order to chronicle, their counter- Everything hinged on the fact that revolution and to share in their ex- the Spanish Reds never honestly peeted triumph.
I spent weeks in Tuy on the Portu- accepted the Republic. They wanted
to make it slepping stone to a Soviet guesé frontier, wailing for their dictatorship; and now they have got column to march. 1 spent weeks in their dictatorship, based оп the Vigo waling for their arms to land. bryonels of the Red militia, which is I spent a long, dreary time in Bolshevist to imni. President Mondariz; I was in Monterey; in Azana may sign deerees and perform Lisbon; in Oporto; in Belgium, where other official antics, but power rests they had bought arms and a ship. with the Reda,
but failed to get the arms into the
Even in the middle of July the Reds ship owing to the talkativeness of a controlled, the
Cabinet of Senor plude, vense Indiscretions were too even for the friendly Belgian to Casares Quiroga, and this fast led the disturbances that broke out all uthorities; in Paris, that home of all By plotters, where loose-tongued Portu- over the country about that time. July 10, those disturbances had be- uese Royalists also managed to mess come so serious that Senor Casares things up. Quiroga resigned, whereupon
But the Spanish plot was, alto- the President summoned the Speaker of ether different. To obtain almost simultaneous action at no many the Cortes, Senne Martinez Barrio, te different points was Indeed a feat.
Cabinet of moderate
Once agala I take off my hat to the hidalgos,
form
Republicans.
Torr
Had this Cabinet remained, the But the reader must not think that Army would have ben satisfied, be- this was exclusively an army matter. cause it Included one man whom they Among the rebels there are could trust. Senor Sanchez Roman, elvillans than soldiers. Practically who had objected to the association all Spain. save Catalonia, is on the of the Casares Quiroga Cabinet with side of revolt, the Communists and had refused to g the Frente Popular pact before the last elections.
It Was n
Red Revolution
But the Marxista smashed
Senor AzaNa
Jad
Nobody can foretell the issue, b- cause nobody knows how far the Communist rot has gone In Spain. It only Catalonia and the Asturias and A few of the large cities are affected. ail will be well. Spain will save Europe from Bolshevism as she saved this Europe from Irlam. The Don will be Cabinet Immediately, whereupon the matador destined to which off the recalled the Casares mad buil of Muscovy. Quiroga Cabinet, thus acting uncon: Refused to Cower siltutionally, for the Communists no right to override his prerogative. Before Force ·
The composition of the new Cabinet
Louis Bertrand, a French Academi- pleased the Bolsheviks so much that they determined to support it by clan and a great authority on Spanish armed force, and at midnight on history, says very truly in one of his Saturday, July 18, armed patrols of books that in history there is no such Batsheviks look charge of the streets thing as an irresistible movement. and of the whole city. They searched that a stud to revolution, that one determined man con every pusser-by, and the police almost block the road 1 also see clearly now the extra-
disappeared.
is never conquered if he believes artlinary influence that those Russian
This was nothing less than a Red that he is conquered. professors of revolution had over
Revolution, and the members of the Speaking of Philip II, he adds that hele Spaingh pupils. Their extreme Union Militar Espanota were quite "ho example is more comforting than Confronted by the same Red Ter- and fendish cruelty Is Russian. Their
justified in firing from the real-tops his, or more efficacious against the monusturice burning of churches and Spaniards
at those armed intruders who had, depressing suggestions of pessimism ror, the same class of
is Russian, Russian also is their without any authority, made them- and of historie determinism, and exhibited no symptoms of hypnotism
against that political mysticism whlej or paralysis or fear. They did not habit of exhuming the bodies of dead selves masters of the city.
runs from convent cemeteries, a habit
who keels down like a coward before stretch nut llicir hands for the hand-
which is incomprehensible to Western began the Revolution, and not the the accomplished fact or the simple cuffs or their throats for the knife. Exhaus-
appearance of force." made no
reign, Christians, for the Catholic Church no appeal to
Which brings me back to the post- not claim, does Fot
The Orthodox Whites. 19 was their enemies who nations:
Russians do,
that the bodies of all- But, thanks to the expert advice tion from which I started, that the yelled to France for bombers and
they received from their Moscow Sponlards did not follow the mystic- saints are Incorruptible. poison gas. They, depended on God
friends, the specialists in revolution, ime politique of the Slav, did not ruin of all the prevent the children, and to prevent the establish- the Spanish Reds acted with more kneel like cowards before the norom- in fleaven amit, so far as this earth was concerned, on themselves alone.
ment in Spain of a Soviet Republic, sunning than even their master, plished fast or the simple appearance They asked nobody for money.
theSpanish-Christians struck. Were Lenin Vladimir Ilych went full it of force, but struck back at once. They drew up their plans, and very
they wrong in striking? Should they against the Government: fils Spanial The Spanish Christians will save- good plans they were. They base waited for, say, Mr. George disciples we the Government as a not only themselves. They will save their own counsel. And when they
shield,
they consequently Lansbury, to have given the word?
Bre Europe again. They will save. Chris- saw that the Reds were on the point
Then they would have waited for Loyalists, and their opponents are tendom. Hats off to the Dons! More of establishing a Red Soviet, they
Rebels,
power to them! struck hard, struck quickly, and struck all together. Even if they fali
hey will go down fighting.
|
More power to them! Hats off to the Dons!
For a moment indeed they had been hypnotised by the magic of that word Republie, and misled by the cloquent assurances of novelists and professors --men who were used by the Reds to deceive the people and who are now cast aside (such of them as survive) like empty bladders.
T
ever,
It was the Reds, therefore,
AMATEUR ACTING
Words in Season to the Beginner
By GERARD FAY
Second Article FTER breathing, the most im A Republie came into existence. į
15 One weak President succeeded an-
enunciation. portant point other weak President. The only thing that remained strong won the which brings all the vocal organs into play. If you open your mouth wide underground sapping whereby the Reds meant to overthrow the Con- and say "ah" without moving the stitution. Finally there came a Pre-tongue or lips, you get an Indleter- minate sound which in no way can dent who resembled Kerensky more be made to suggest a word. Only than any of his predecessors. He was when that sound has been modified out of the throat. The shape of the Senor Azana, theoretician, idealogue, by bringing the teeth, tongue, and lips mouth is such that it acts as un
Behind him stood Large into action can it become a word. Caballero, the Spanish Lenin.
orator.
The only sure guide to good pro- from all localisma and affections. Neither the "West End" nor
nunciation is that it should be free
the
Oxford accent is good Englishs, any
more than Cockney or Lancashire' accents are. It has been said that the best King's English is spoken by the King himself, and most people who have heard the King speaking over the radio will be inclined to agree.
tive investigations are known to have been instituted by the health authoritics, but the problem is one which-for-a-variety of reasons, cannot be solved quickly. Cer- tain preliminary conclusions have the already been reached, and deductions therefrom are being carefully analysed.. One of the biggest handicaps which inves tigators face in enquiries of this kind is that by the time the tests from suspected sources are com- plete; the milk, water or food which may have become con- taminated has already passed into circulation. It is quite possible, of course, that the disease may have been transmitted by a car- rier who is himself unaffected. The authorities have gathered de- tailed data in regard to every case- so far reported, and in the near
"expansion chamber" for the sounds
The most desirable accent for stage future a preliminary official state-
produced by the vocal organs, giving ment on the result of the inver
This process is so natural and so them the strength and resonance purposes is what is rather vaguely tigations may be expected. So
rapid that it is impossible, without which will carry them over the dis-known as "Standard English," and
considerable detall, to going into
who will serve as models to amateurs, far as making dysentery a notifi-
describe exactly what happens to tance from the stage to the farthest Food exponents of this type of speech,
scat in the auditorium.
are such actors au Charles Laughton, able discase is concerned, it is
sounds when they are being convert-
Resonance in speech must be de- Flora Robson, Cedric Hardwicke, and Had the White Spaniards wailed ed into speech. The best way to! understood that there are some
six months more, their army would study the mechanics of diction is veloped if the voice is to be effective. Robert Donat, to mention only a few. Apart from super-sophistication difficulties which would have to be
luve been demoralised, their officers to get hold of a good book on elocu- and here again the elocution book will
and other annoying peses, the English overcome, but there seems no rea- retired, disarmed, isolated, them-tion in which a detailed description be useful in giving exercises. It is curious belief amongst many of the construction of the mouth and a son why compulsory pasteurisa-selves helpless.
Ilad they walled twelve months. vocal organs will be found. It is amateurs that the time spent in re-spoken by some of the B.B.C. an- tion of all the Colony's milk sup-
th050 officers and every Christian not advisable to take too much notice hearsals and the actual pubile per nouncers may be accepted as a good to remember in acquiring a good plies should not be enforced. leader in Spain and every enemy of of elocutionary books on the subject formance of the play is sufficient to standard. The most important thing must be orbed until it becomes would have been slaughtered as the technique is more applicable to the ing. This is quite absurd.
concert platform than the stage. All good actors practise movement involuntary, for mere imitation of models cannot produce 1 White Russians were slaughtered.
But a far worse thing would have Be careful of over-enunciation, and diction apert entirely from re- good
tho although
legitimate pleasant form of diction
The combination of soft lights, happened. The demoralisation of the which may be caused by a too faith-hearsal, youth of Spain would have gone too ful following of the old tog "inke stage has, in the last few decades.
perature produces in an audience a for for cure. How far it has actually care of the consonants and the vowels fallen far behind the music-hall and comfortable seats, and a. high tem
and When you think of the hours of distressing tendency to lapse into un- where the most frightful butcheries words of a sentence are
one can be learned from Barcelona, will take care of themselves." If the variety theatre in this respect.
ver-emphasised. the therfection of consciousness, were perpetrated by boys and girls and the syllables over-emphasised practico de vets, or the learning of a spectators awake is one of the Bret
speech becomes of from 14 to 17. This wholesale the on other aspects of what is a most demoralisation of children is a special forced. Usage allows certain sounds piece of music, the few hours given duiles of an actor. complex problem. The public feature of the Red atrocities through to be slurred in order to gain in to study by nets become significant, comes in a steady drone, the anesthe naturalness-for instance, the word Since amateurs generally make only the effect will be heightened instead may therefore rest assured that out Spain.
Some time back Comrade Largo "certain" is correctly pronounced spasmodle appearances, practice is of lessened, and it is therefore neces- A sense, even more essential to them than to sary for the player to achieve a con- the whole matter is being explor-Caballero established in Spain "cert'n" and not "certayn." ed, with a view both to checking League of Communist Youth, exactly of proportion is required in enuncia- professionals. Half an hour a day stunt variety in his speech.
on the style of the tusslan Komsomol; tion In order to achieve the medium of practice in speech and movement any further spread of the discaso
carelessness and should be the minimum. for the con- and it is als League which has de course between
scientious amateur. For the last pedantry. and to preventing the occurrence moralised the young.
six months, the Communists have been working with feverish energy,
Had They Waited
Twelve Months
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These two points will, with Balshevism from Bilbio to Algeciras of dramatic interpretation, for their give practice in the technique of act- | stage accent is that the pronunciation
others, no doubt receive the carly attention of the Government. Steps will also, we have reason to believe, bu taken to pursue fur- ther enquiries on the possibility
of infection by carriers, as well as
LTD. of a fresh outbreak. It is essen-
THE RESONANT VOICE
"
up
.
GOOD PRONUNCIATION
tial, however, that, for the time,
as they always do (the energy of a
A very important factor in clear Pronunciation has to do with the [being at any rate, duo safeguards pestiferous microbe), on the "educn; should be taken by the community lon" of the young; and in this as in stage speech, which may not be so values to be given to different sounds other matters they have had abundant noticeable in ordinary conversation, in order to produce a pleasant,
is the necessity of keeping the voice' musical and cultured accent, along the lines already indicated. help from Moscow.
keeping the
If the volee
AVOIDING MONOTONY
of avoiding monotony.
Inflection is the principal means. You must not allow your voice to stay for too long on the same note.
A well-Inflected speech is rather There is a definite. (Continued on Page 4.) like a soUK