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about Burns. is his. in-
finite variety that “God's plenty," both in mind and which Dryden
character, found in Chaucer,
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Take a great figure like Sir Walter Scott: He un- derstood all these different elements, and he had por trayed them in his novels
with immense humour and Stubbs Road vigour and truth. But they were not all in the man him-
self.
Hongkong Telegraph. of Scot,
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937.
Sir Walter was one type a very clean-cut type. But Burns not only understood the different
CO OPERATION strains with his mind; he
THE ONLY WAY
In his specch on foreign affairs in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Anthony Eden reiterated arguments which he had previously advanced for the appeasement of the European situation. Chief of these was a
had them all in his heart and blood. That is why he was in such a complete sense our na- tional poet, and why his poems. had become the masonic symbols of the Scottish people.
plea for a reduction in arma- BUT if a poet became a
risks.
co-
ments expenditure and the achievement of economic operation between the various countries. It is clear that if any real coming-together is to be effected, there must be a more general abandonment of the doctrine of national exclusive-
of Mr. ness. Much speech was directed to Germany, of self- suntciency was adumbrated. by Herr Hitler in his speech some months ago at Nuremberg. It is realised that considerable diffi-
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By
LORD TWEEDSMUIR
ROBERT BURNS whose toast toill be drunk at the St. Andrew's Society's "Burns Nicht" dinner at the Peninsula Hotel to-night,
In the first place his work was apt to be judged on other than struct the literary Pantheon, Burns a good eltizen he had a keen interest
must be placed among the major in the welfare of his country. be given his proper place in the poetic grounds, and he might not doties. hierarchy of the world's litera- ture,
concerns bis ed film as "a Httie Vaucluse fountain," position as a poet. Carlyle describ-
and contrasted him with the broad rivers of the greater poetry flowing
be THE first mistake
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character.
THE third point on which mistakes THE
should be corrected concern one particular aspect of his character- his.strong, practical good sense.
He was no rootless Bohemian, but a shrowd and patriatic citizen, and sa
It is worth while to consider his
political Ideas. He was not partly à sentimental Jacobite and partly a sentimental Jacobin. He was pri- marily a Pitute, and the year which he always had in mind was the year 1758, the year of his birth, the year of Minden, and the taking of Quebec, and the victory of Quiberon Bay.
reasoned, spirited, and sane nailon- His political creed was that of a
alism.
in that creed.
But he was no parochial patriot.. lie wax equally interested in the lalatory and welfare of the wider unit, the British Empire..
ts
We hear a great deal of talk about Scottish Nationalism, and that all to the good, for every true Scots- man should be a Scottish Nationalist in the sense that the well-being of Scotland be his fast interest. There are many things amiss with OUT land to-day. We are losing some- thing of
natioml Idiom
In
bur
thought and language: some of our historic Institutions are des caying: Ule steam roller of modern life is flattening out many of the familiar features in our landscape. We do not want to become like the Jews with no Jerusalem behind us
We want to save our nationality be.
fore
way
it is too inte. There is only one
to do that, and that was Burns's way. It cannot be done by tinkering with the mechanism of government, and still less by the cultivation of
any
to stupid antagonism Southern neighbours. It can
our
only
come about it Scotsmen are more genuinely interested in their own land and realise that Scotland is not an antiquarian museum. but Homething real and living, worthy of the constant enre and best efforts of her sons.
THERE was a third element in his creed, the most important of all.
His genius was essentially a unifying genius, for he helped to blend the warring opposites of his land into one great tradition.
As a nation we have always had that unifying power. From a long and bitter experience we learned the folly of ditunion. For centuries we impoverished ourselves fighting, England, until by a happy chance we were able to set a Scotsman on the British throne.
More remarkable still, we mon- nged to unite Highlands and Low- lands-two different societies with u long reberd of hostilliy behind them -wo made lighlands and Lowlands one people,
Of this unifying impulse of our nation Burns was especially the pro- phet and the poet. By virtue of the power of his imagination, and the Infinite human sympathy of his heart, he interpreted Scotland to England, and in no small degree England to Scotland, and, above. oll, Scotsmen to each other.
THIS, the chief of Burns's achieve- ments, still stood as an example to his countrymen..
I do not believe that the unifying power of our race is yet exhausted.
Unily instead of strife, co-opera- tion instead of rivalry-these are the prime needs of every people.
We need a unity of classes, we need a more closely united Empire, we need above all things a union of the nations in a league of peace.
unity was the chief lesson which Burns can still teach us, and that The first was his belief in a real to assist in its realisation the first democracy which recognised no bar- duty of every Scotsman wherever on rlers between classes. He was that the globe his lot might be cast? rare thing, true democrat, for he was against any kind of class rule-the tyranny of any class, not merely at one particular class,
The second article, was his nation- alism. He absorbed the virtue of all the conflicting traditions in Scottish history, and was passionately in terested in Scotland.
As a race we know from bitter experience the folly of division. As
Д
race we have already achieved miracles of comprehension.
our
Surely in the still greater problemis of the future we may make Scottish tradition an inspiration and An example.
In the second place, the different THE second mistake is about his Eden's aspects of his charneter were exig
'Lord Rosebery, in 5erated by those who would claim his centenary address at Dumfries, the subject A wide him for their own conventicle. He brought to was in danger of ceasing to be a man
sympathy, and becoming ter was conceived as an impossible slave to futile emotions, a mere piece portent. His charac- It is absurd to portray Burns as a mosaic of virtues and vlees, and of moral flotsam and Jetsam. Im- every kind of contrary, school claimed-mortal songs could not have been him as their own poet.
written by a neurotie weakling. The
first thing to realise is the In recent years we have advanced culties will have to be overcome to a truer understanding of Burns, essential reasonablciess and decency THERE were three great articles is it fantastic to believe that such of Burns, his strong self-respect, his in the provision of many of the both as poet and as man, and the courage, and his fastidious pride. It Burns. clubs have had a great deal is futile to attempt to draw morals raw materials she requires for to do with this happy result. So let from his life, and to condemn or manufacture. Nevertheless, Dr. me refer to certain mistakes about even to condone.
Burns-mistakes which, till they Schacht has set about the task-are amended, must clrcumscribe hit
greatness. and one of the principal reasons he gave recently for demanding a Colonial Empire for Germany was that she might Rovereign owner of lands where these raw materials for manu- facture might be freely obtained. There can be no doubt that one of the chief causes of the lower ing the living standard in Ger- many is to be found in her vast expenditure upon armaments. As Mr. Baldwin pointed out in
коле LONDONER, who had his Mansion House speech in tion and the justice which we call North for the shooting, and who also his first experience of the tele- walter went through the same per-
phone, and the dirt at the exchange formance again. London recently, money spent on the
classic, and which, we find only in thought that his ghillie was
greatest Jiterature. Poetry
please." is and always must be which had such perfection must treating him with due respect, said, ppt telling him to "Speak louder, brought the third when the "Look here, my man, you do not
"Looder," stand in relation to other poetry as seem to be aware that my ancestors money robbed from welfare. something more than Wayside have been entitled to bear arms since D'ye think I wad be usin' yer rotten Once again, Mr. Eden, speaking spring to a river, or a dell to the time of William the Conqueror!" contraption ava, if I could shout ony
fooder!" at Bradford last month, held out
"Hoots, awal said the ghillle, in Weelum was in Court charged no way subdued. "That's neething! with stealing a sheep. the hand of friendship to Ger-
Ma ancestors ha'e been. entitled 10
"Have you any witnesses to call?" many. Wb should not co- but the trouble is that Germany bare legs since the world began!"
asked the Judge, in grave volce. eperation take the place of is already so committed to self-failing was his unquestionable thirst, "did ye think I was gaun to steal a
A certain beadle, whose great
"Witnesseal” exclaimed Weelum, armament-fed self-sufficiency insufficiency and, to armaments was approached by the minister one sheep in front of witnesses?"
arms
through the country of thought. Henley sopke of him as "a little park sylvaa corners and healthy places." aport unique retreat of rocks and But these pleasant metaphors involva an undue belittlement.
Burns, in spild of Matthew Arnold's view to the contrary, had the true classic elevation, the perice-
dememe. However we may con-
PAWKY
not
SCOTS
STORIES
the
"I canna eat this soup," and
had
cliner
quoth he, exasperated. but
the relationship between nations? that it is difficult for her to that he would kill himar if heard the caller, to
who told him very solemnly
"You
" he admon
have
put doon a spune.
to
still said, "I canna cat this soup,
added, "Ye've forgotten
"Come into the dining-room for a minute, Kirsty," cald a mistress to her new scrvant.
"Look at the table, I can write my name on the dust"
"Fegs, mum!" said· Kirsty, in ad- miration. "It's a graun' thing to hae eddification.
to be
, י
A very plous minister came to have. "I hear your mistress has had 2 tea with a family who had newly Great Britain, Mr. Eden declar- disentangle herself from their not end his evil ways.
the come to his parish, and noticed that servant who opened the door. "How on the sideboard there were several ed, is willing to take its share in many implications and even con- not even the sense of the
Tammas,
decanters which appeareer drinks- is her temperature to-day?" animals, creating international conditions, template a return to normal him. it you ce a horse to the "Weci, sir, it's no' for me to say.” Ülled with whisky and | wherein all nations could have trade and ways of peaceful water and take his thirst, you will was the reply. "Ye see, she de'ed
"My friend," he observed to his find tha ne stops when he has had yesterday.".".
hostess
"It would be better if you greater opportunities and could friendliness. Yet the British enough."
"It's rainin'," remarked Donald to avoided even the appearance of evil. raise the standard of life for gesture was well worth making, Ay, deursny!"
drink údmitted the his wife.
I do not say that you their people. But an
"Hoots! let it rain, then," said she, "Och, they're only filled wi furni- arms for its obvious good sense and beadle, "but gin there was anther
horse at the tither side of the wait- sharply.
ture polish an floor-stain," said the agreement is an indispensable good will point the only way out ter sayin', 'Here's tan ye!' 1', wager "I was gaun to replied Donald, good-wife. "It's the decanters I like
on!"
Took that bonnie.” because they part of such a general' coming of the dangerous impasse into he wad gang
"Just 20 sal Two Scottish worthies were visit-
said the minister. "I wish ye wadna' whustle at yer together; and it is impossible which Europe has drifted during ing London when a watering-cart waurk, Jimmy," said the cobbler to repent, avoid even the appearance for Britain to help Germany the last few years. For the passed them on the street. Tammas his young assistant.
got very oxelted and ran after it, either financially or economically moment there. may seem little shouting, "Hey, ma mannie; ye're I wasna workin'! "If the only result of our action hope of bringing Germany back losin yer waitter!" would be a further plling up of to a polley of co-operation, but Houts, man; dining show yer ig-
noranco,' cried his companion. A country worthy was dining out evolution and the Darwinian theory.
+
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meekly.
dle
of ovil. I helped myself to a drink "Och," quoth Jimmy. "It's a richt: from the big decanter in the mid- A story is told of an Englishmajt and a Scof who were 'prguing about
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armaments and a consequent it is the business of British "D'ye no' ken that's juist to keep the in state one night when he sum-And do you believe," mid the Eng- further stress and strain upon statesmen to keep the door open,
bairns frae hingin' on the back." moned the walter and said, "I canna 2ishman, that we have all descended
from I eat this soup.
apes?" the fabric of world panco."
and to let Germany and the
"Another story is told of a country- Sorry, Sir," said the waiter, and "No exactly," said the Scotsman Herr Hitler is now sald to be world know that it will remain man who, on his first visit to town, removed the plate. A few moments cautiously. The English nicht ha'e pondering Mr. Eden's overtu
was forced to go into a post office to later he returned with a different descended, but the Scots ascended.
Lavili Derwent send a telephone message. It was kind of soup, but the diner repeated,
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