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A Different Day
ON SUNDAY we woke to a
different kind of day- Christmas Day,
Boxing Day, yesterday, was a holiday, but it seemed too much like every other day again. There probably is something in this Christmas business, now most agreeably over.
Hongkong spent it in devious ways, In England, our home- folks had a real Christmas, with snow and skating to go with the turkey and plum pudding, and most of the people there spent Sunday like their King and Queen, in front of big roaring fires. Everybody missed what
has come to be accepted as an annual B.B.C. arrangement-- broadcast from the King to his people,
The British Empire was able to forget its worries and its troubles even in torn Jerusalem there was a truce.
But Father Christmas was not! happy elsewhere in the world.
In Spain, Franco chose the most inopportune time of the year to launch his greatest offensive against the Loyalists, and Christmas Day saw not peace and goodwill in a country already torn by over two years of bloody strife, but mangled bodies and wrecked homes.
China flared
again 33 Chinese and Japanese bombers, took to the air. Japanese bombs fell on Wulanao, Chekweisiang, Vuchen, Kweilin, Wuchow, Changsha, Slan, Siaoshan and Tungiu, Chinese
bombs (021 Wuhu.
Give Thanks
PEOPLES of the British Em-
pire should count their Llessings. This great Common- wealth does not wake each day to the roll of gunfire and roar of the bombers, slaying the good and the brave in thousands. Flood and fire, typhoons and the other tragedies of nature we know. But we do not suffer the vast misery of a million homes
T
Look to
your
Liberties
BY FRANCIS
WENTY years ago the war which,
so we were told, was fought to RAVC elvilisation, ended. And civilisation was not saved, It is still imperilled. For civilisation is not simply the material trappings of progress.
Its spirit is in those qualities 0: tolerance, of liberality, of reasonableness, of readiness to accept in our lives the Rovernance of law rather than to accept only the naked arbitrament of force, which is to-day most threatened in the world.
Perhaps if the war that was fought to savo civilisation had been followed by a civilised pence the face of the world to-day would have been different. But it was not.
And because it was not, one by one the fres of liberty that burned In Europe are put out.
Already for more than six out ol every ten of the men and women of Europe the darkness hus fallen. For them the crisp daylight of freedom is ended; they are called upon to suppress utterly those qualities of mind and spirit, those precious attributes of Individuality which have always seemed most desirable to civilised men.
For them now there is but the one creed of conformity.
We who still hold to the traditions of free- dom but who see these traditions almost daily ussalled, need to think of them particularly upon this day in, the two minutes when even the armament factort ar silent.
I
T is not popalar in some quarters just how to talk of the essential qualities
of civilisation nor why democracy is the only true basis of a modern civilisation. For it is held that to praise democracy is to criticise dictatorships, and that an unfriendly nct.
Yet it seems to me that particularly on this day we should look to our liberties, that on this day perhaps above all others, we should ask ourselves by what judg ments we are to abide. by wint standards we are to Hve.
I do not feel called upon to pre- tend any love for dictatorships. I am not ready to accept the accus- tion of war-mongering If I say that the dark creed of Fascism seems to me to eliallenge all that is most noble in the human spirit.
I do not believe that men can be freed from Fascism by the threat or exercise of external force. It Fascism is to go down in the cuuntries where now it rules It will go down not before the bombers of an external enemy. but because of the uprising of those who are now its captives, some of them- for let us not deceive ourselver- most willing captives.
I will fall is other tyrannies have fallen before It, because men grow weary of tyranny, because the desire for liberty, for the right to be their individual selves, is deep planted in the hearts of men, b cause in the long run Ideas are
nore powerful than swords.
B
BITTERLY, England, musi
thou grieve Though none of these poor men who died
But did within his soul belinvo That death for theo was
glorified.
-DE LA MARE.
no harm in adopting means that are bad.
Britain must be strong to meet the menace of Fascist aggression, The Fascist countries are strong because they are organised for obedience under determined Governments. Therefore we too must organise in the same way, learn from their methods, be ready to sacrifice some of our liberties In order that we shall, if the occasion
WILLIAMS
find it possible to take once again the initiative in world affairs.
How can that be done? It can- not be done by copying the Faselat powers. It can be done only if we turn back to the fumlumentals of our democratic ereed and on their foundation build with all our energy a more just and equitable society.
"We hold," said the draughts- men of the American Declaration of Independence, "these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en- dowed by their Creator with cer- tainunallenable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights. Governments are Instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." come. be efficiently organised to which inspire everywhere the con- These are the great principles
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safeguard our larger liberty." 50 ception of democracy. runs the argument,
There lies ΠΟ salvation for democracy and èivilisation in such a course,
UT let us not deceive
Of course we must nrm for our ourselves either us to defence. Of course WC must the
potency of bad organise to meet aggression it a deas in the short run. Truth is comes. But we must do so na free tough, and in the end it cannot en who, if the need should come be kept down, but in the short run take arms to defend not the there seems sometimes to be in empty shell of liberty but a con- ideas, as in currency, a Gresham's ception of society which we know Law by which the bad currency
to be good because it is ours to drives out the good.
enjoy.
The currency of Fascisin is be- coming current even among some of those who call themselves de- mocrats. It is a currency danger- ously adapted to the purposes of Governments which fear criticism. Moreover, it has a specious appeal to those who, confident that the ends they pursue are righteous, ace
Zoo To Buy
Mate For
John Hippo
HE greatest need at this
moment if we are to hold
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OW, when democracy 18 threatened as never be- if we would save it to give effect to fore, we are called upon them, and in so doing by our ex- ample, inspire those who to-day live under tyranny with a new hope.
We shall not achieve that unless we are ready not merely to hold fast to the democratie institutions which we possess but to go forward to a more complete democracy.
There can be no live democracy so long as we acquiesce in a social
as we already have and make pos- with the injustices of immense sible a higher civilisation is that disparities of wealth,
with the somehow the democracies shall private control of economic power
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which should be organised for the common good. with the govern ance of vested interests in matters. which concern deeply the happi- ness and well-being of ordinary men and women,
Man is much more than an economic being; but there can be no true equality of social oppor- tunity, no true freedom, no com- plete rule of justice unless we so reorganise our economic life that. the skill of men in material things is used for the good of all. Without this democracy is a nobic edifice built upon sand.
There are at our command such: resources, of mind and spirit and material as can if we so determine enable us to show to the world how fire д civilisation
A free democracy can build.
But only if we have confidence in democracy, confidence in the right of meni to criticiso and discuss, to decide for themselves the course that shall be taken and abide by the view of the majority. confidence in that insistent why?- which is at the heart of progress.
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| ONFIDENCE, too, we must have, to fight for the freedom of others even when their views are such as we do not approve, confidence casential goodness of ordinary people and a determina-. tion that no man or woman shall: suffer injustice and we remain: silent.
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And, above all, a determination to sweep away poverty and social. inequity and to build a cocini. system of which we can be truly proud.
If we do that then this time wes may in truth save civilisation,
'Mothers Bribed To Go To Centres
Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson, Medical
RIVALRY between Army sergeants prevented a broad-
cast recently. Company Sergeant Major A. Ed-omcer for Cardiff, told a meeting of swept away by the demon of A LARGE male hippopotamus is wards, of Grantham, was to have broadcast at 7.20 in the the National Baby Week Council, at war, of countless millions auffer-collection of rarer animals.
zuan to be added to the Zoo's Northern programme as "Champion Recruiter of the the Ministry
of Health recently. ing as they do to-day in war-in pigmy specimens from Liberio, It
At present, while the Zoo is rich British Army."
"The soaring Sgures for attendance torn China and Spain. Many of has no male hippo of the larger Cen-
at maternity and child Instructions from the War Office, however, caused the B.B.C. | centres-figures in which
welfare our people could eat more andtral African type.
to postpone the talk.
wo take Joan, the solitary specimen, has
to much pride are false and based better food. Yet so far none, been a lonely widow since her male,
In its place was given a talk on Christmas puddings.
un bribery." not even our vast multitudes in the famous Bob, tamest and friend-
"Certain facts in the script sub- India, have suffered the famine est et hippos, died a year or
Behind tils atatement is a story
Instead of being places two mitted by C. S. M. Edwards for ap-of rivalry between recruiting officers, teaching of mothercraft, many such as China cannot escape. Joon is a creature of strong likes proval by the War Offer have had to C. S. M. Edwards claims to have these centres, he said, wero little.
We have our misfits and our misories. But we have some else - Becurity.
Tel. 26615.
1 thing
thanks.
ago.
for the
of
and dislikes. She ruled Bob and is be verified. Such verifention has secured more recruits for the Regular better than milk shops at which un- quite equal to ruling any newcomer. taken longer than was at first anti-Army than any other permanent stair employment assistance board officials
Dr. Vevers, superttendent of the elpated, and in consequence it has instructor.
Give Zoo, has had offers of three mate
Other recruiting sergeants, how were on the look-out for medical hippos and he proposes to inspect all been found necessary to postpone the ever, claim that they have been able reasons for supplementing family-
broadcast," the War Office said. to enilst just as many new men.
incomes.
three.
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