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NAZIISM AND
RELIGION
However one may disapprove Nazí policy at home and abroad, it is impossible to withhold wonder, if not admiration, for the seemingly tireless energy with which it pursues its ends.
The eradication of the Jew and
all his works from Germany would seem to be a sufficiently onerous and complicated task to absorb the whole of the imme- diate attention of those who are seeking to fulfil their dream of an Aryan people, united by blood and soil in a totalitarian system of loyalty to a common purpose personified, almost dei- fed, in Herr Hitler,
But there are other influences besides that of Hebraism that endanger the future of the
HISTORY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE
D
EMOCRACY on the Continent, was growing among ment was almost wholly leader- barricaded: civil servants armed. the British industrial workers, less, broken and disorgnised. The Chartists had arranged to defensive, as we see
and in many districts men were O'Connor directed the remn- assemble on the Common and to it to-day, seems a far reported to be arming and ants of the movement from march thence to Westminster. cry from the time when men drilling. The Government be gaol and he was able to gain The Government proposed to claiming equal rights in gan to organise forces to resist complete control on his release. stop them by holding the
bridges. citizenship were attacking insurrection. the strongholds of privilege.
a
Moderates ruled the Conven-
UNDER
was
But the demonstration proved Yet one hundred years ago tion until the rejection by Parli
O'Connor's a flasco, not more than 50,000 there was launched in Britain ament of the Charter petition.
lenderahip Chartism turned up, no attempt was made movement which in a few Then the "physical force" met reached the crest of its strength, to force the bridges, and the years gripped the nation, struck gained control. Orders for a and in 1842 three and a half great national petition terror in the heart of reaction, general strike were issued amid million signatures the popula- igonminiously delivered by cab! and laid the foundations of great excitement-and then were tion was then 18,000,000 were It was found to bear only two British democracy.
cancelled when it was realised obained to a new petition. But million names. that no proper preparations had this suffered the same fate as O'Connor lost his hold and his On that day William Lovett, been made.
the first. A new wave of strikes mind. (He became insane in founder of the London Working
The Convention went on talk swept the country in answer to 1862 and died three years later.) Men's Association, published ing of means of coercing the wage cuts during a period of Desperate efforts were made to the "People's Charter," which Government, including a run on trade depression, but O'Connor keep Chartism alive, but it was became the basis of Chartism, the banks, until the militants, failed to develop it into a gen dead by 1868.
revolutionary democratic despairing of any real action cral strike, and so the second Why did it fall? It repre- agitation which swept all and still toying with the idea of phase of Chartism ended in de- sented the challenge of a work- almost as suddenly as it arose. Newport (Mon.) rising. Britain before it faded away insurrection, decided upon the fent.
ing-class, politically immature, Chartism flared up once more uneducated and ill-equipped, to The capture of the town and in 1847 with the election of a dominant economic power, the release of Henry Vincent, O'Connor as M.P. for Notting- strongly entrenched and well lending Chartist orator, who ham. Again the movement cen. on its way to unparalleled Im- was in Monmouth Castle, was to tred on a petition, and this time perial expansion. be the signal for general insur- O'Connor claimed to have six rection.
the
Six demands comprised Charter:
Equal electoral areas; Universal suffrage;
Payment of M.P.8;
Vote by ballot;
the
Abolition of property quali-
fications; and
Annual Parliaments.
million signatures.
A mighty demonstration was planned on Kennington Common
manifesta-
IT was, too, one of the
carliest THE attack was to have for April 10, 1848, and it was tions of class struggle which, All but the last are now ac-
been made by three intended that half a million men contrary to what some politi- cepted facts, but in those times columns on November 4, 1839, should march to Parliament to cians would have us believe, was of extreme misery and degra- but owing to mismanagement present the petition.
a native British product, dation of the workers, particu- these failed to unite and the The Government, by this time Its leasons live on. The larly among the factory opera- assault was carried out by only thoroughly alarmed-for the Chartists, hampered themselves tives, colliers
men armed with rifles tide of revolution was running by the lack of political theory, and handloom 3,000 workers of the Midlands and the and colliers' picks. Warned of high on the Continent-placed produced the seeds which the
Duke of North, these few demands cap- their approach a small party of the
Wellington in genius of Mars and Engels was tured the imagination of the soldiers were lying in wait and charge of military measures to to develop into the theoretical easily dispersed them with rifle prevent insurrection. Two hun- basis of modern revolutionary people.
fire and within a few minutes dred thousand special constables Socialism. the insurrectionists were flying wore enrolled. to the hills.
☆
Troops and artillery were CHA CHARTISM arose after
Savage prosections followed, placed at strategic points all the defeat of the scores were transported, and by over central London: Govern- early Trade Union movement the middle of 1840 the move- ment offices and banks were in the 1830's, when a small group of London men formed the Working Men's Association, which set to building unity of all the forces in that age of revolt upon the programme of the Charter.
sentation.
The
good
"old
Lawrence H.
Kirwan
Moan of the Pessimist
decent artist since Paul Langtry and the sad decline of all things human. are now.
"Il fares the land, to hastening ille never so good. It depends on the
Little Tich were on the boards. As
for modern politicians, the less said about them the better. Modern fe
41
FEW days ago I was chatting to expect Noah told his song with a heaven, we were all going direct the These workers sent out "mis-Amer who could see no sigh that they were living in de other way-in, short, the period was sionaries" all over Britain, and thing good in the present, Every- generate days. The Romans must so for like present period." armed insurrection was freely thing that was beautiful belonged to have sorrowed for the age when the
the "dear dead days." Football was mightly Caesar led his victorious A Wonderful World advocated, so keen WAA the no longer what it used to be. What legions to the ends of the known demand for democratic repre- have we to-day to compare with the world. Even in the eighteenth cen There is every reason to believe
has-beens? The
modern tury Oliver Goldsmith le lamenting things were never so bad as they music-hall Is a wash-out.
Just as surely things were Not Rapidly becoming the most popular leader was one Feargus
prey;
point of view. Europe was never so Where wealth accumulates and distracted, the crisis that threatens O'Connor, former Irish M.P., a
men decay."
our civilisation was never so sinis- demagogue who rarely made a totalitarian self-sufficient State.
was as stupid and insipid as post-:
Edmund Burke, at the close of this ter, and taxation was never so in- speech without calling for war whisky,
same century and when Madame tolerable. But as certainly can we Chief among these is the Chris-revolution.
ure living in a I am not given much to Alat con- Guillotine was being snted with the assert that we
wonderful age. French aristocrats, was
Possibly the most. tian Faith, partly because of its
tradiction. I prefer to be a good blood of First step in the Chartist stener. Obviously to my mind the boring the House of Commons to interesting this world has known. claim on its members for a campaign was the setting up by poor fellow had grown sentimental tears with a dismal dirge. "The The conditions of life for the mass infinitely brigh- loyalty to another God than the disfranchised of a people's with the advance of years. He was age of chivalry is gone, and the of the population are
living in the past. He had come to flower Europe is perished forever." ter, more decent, more sensible than Caesar, and partly because its parliament called the National that stage when one can thinks of It is the swan song of the choleric they used to be. There is a more kindly and tolerant spirit among us, Convention, which sat as a rival nothing but the glory that is gone, and the despairing. moral doctrines encourage a to the House of Commons and Those happy times that shimmered "We have been going to the dogs bent on helping and cleansing and sense of the dignity of man and presented a petition, bearing in the light of a romantic golden ever since the race began. In the lifting up the souls and bodies of haze were full of peace and quiet opening paragraph of 'A Tale of Two those who have fallen by the way- one million signatures, de- and wholesome labour, its miseries Cities Dickens sums up the position side. manding of that august as- and cruelties were forgotten, and admirably. It was the best of times, hood quite incompatible withsembly all six points of the the ills of the present had become
Compare the moral standard of the Nazi dogma of race Charter.
a source of grief, as though they the age of foolishness, it was the day with that of a century ago, and you will find it amazingly high superiority. Quite logically
were newly arlsen and freshly en- epoch of belief. . It was the spring and uncommonly sound. How many The Convention was attended gendered.
of hope, it was the winter of de- hospitals and infirmaries are caring therefore the Leader, to whom by delegates elected at vast
The mood is an old us man. I'spair .,, we are all going direct to for the sick? How many homes are Democracy and the League of torchlight meetings held all
making more comfortable the aged? Think of the chance the modern Nations and other kindred con-over the country, and first sat
child is receiving. Think of the ceptions born and bred in Chris- on February 4, 1839, at the GRIN AND BEAR IT
constant outflow of money for charit- tian ideology anathema, British Hotel, Cockspur Street,
ablo
purposes. The week's good cause never falls to elicit a vast must attack them at their Charing Cross. The spirit of
amount of
of a universal human brother-
are
revolt, already in action on the
fountain hend. The surprises are (a) that the Nazi rulers have sufficient superfluous working out, the entire elimina- vitality to launch and continue] tion of Roman Catholic teaching the assault, and (b) that even and influence from the school Д people so disciplined and system throughout Austrin. idealistic as the Germans do not revolt,
The struggle will be long and bitter, for Roman Catholicism is The campaign opened at the in its sphere as determinedly very beginning of the Nazi totalitarian as Naziism itself., regime, and in Germany proper, and under the recent Dollfuss- the pre-Anschluss Germany, has Schuschnigg regime it wiolded a developed very specially perhaps | fairly considerable political against the Protestant and power in Austria. The issue Evangelical Churches. Now it seems to 'depend on the extent has been extended to Austria, to which the Roman Catholic There the enemy is Roman population (nominally at least a Catholicism, and its stronghold vast majority) are prepared to
the School. First steps have fight, or compromise, or ac already been taken. The nuns quiesce. Three possibilities aro have been banished from the mentioned. Some doubtless will Kindergartens in Vienna, in- support the Pope and Cardinal cidentally also from the Hos- Innitzer through thick and thin pitals and their places as and, judging from recent utter- supervisors or nurses have ancea, both are likely to assert been taken by Nazi lay ap- the authority of the Vatican. pointees. This is, however, only Some scom anxious to find a via preliminary. Plans have been media. Many-how many it is published which contemplate in impossible to Bayaro Nazl their gradual but complete' first, and Catholic only secondly,
was the worst of times.
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and the minds of men are far from
Se made sub..
We have stantial progress.
The old slums pre
fast disappearing and gardien cities are being built all around us. We Ac- are becoming physically Atter. cording to the latest reports of the Ife Insurance companies the average Ilfe in Britain to-day is 58, compared with 40 half a century 120,
Sir Oliver Lodge is of opinion that: If the present progress is maintained people a century hence "will live to a hundred and be useful all the time." This does not suggest de- generation. Nor
we morally
dre
corrupt Vice is prevalent. It al ways was. But the amount of sheer goodness among us amazing. Sir Berkeley
dressen sald in an ad-
bellevo in the essential goodness of human nature. I have to deal with people in the great crises of their
eir lives the great testing times of their charac terr, and I and that when the aver- age character goes into the crucible į it is pure gold that comes out. There ‘ is pure gold in the heart of the worst of us."
Land Of Our Dreams
Yet in spite of all, I am not a cheery optimist. I have a sort of meaking regard for the pessimist. All is not quiet on the western front, One misiske wo ́have' made is 10 pat ourselves on the back, and- we imagine we are such a wonderful age. Our children are beginning to wonder how in all the earth their grandfathers ever managed to exist, (Continued on Page 4.)