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August 22, 1939.
"Democracies Will Win,
Says Dr. Benes Let Germany Share
Dictators Condemned Condemned
DR. EDUARD BENES, former President of Czecho-Slovakia, addressed the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge recently. The meeting, held In the Arts) and fores-such leaders must reflect Theatre, had been thrown open to such characteristics. the public,
They must be men who accepted | the principle that human life was a constant battle and that the relaton of men, nations, and states, was a relation of force.
People who could not gain admis- sion queued up in the rain outside the building While Dr. Benes was speaking.
Our
DMINISTRATION of colonies
international paper sto
was urged by Mr. Ramsay Muir, re- cently, at the Liberal Summer School.
at Cambridge,
Jie sugested that the possessurs of colonies should resign their ab- over those sovereignty solute colonies tn scine international nu- therity.
CHANGE FOR GERMANY One condition should be an ab-| solutely open trade necess for the traders of nil nations to all catantes under such administration.
"That would give Germany a very great deal more than she would get in trade if she got back her four
Dr. Benes prefaced his address by
They were generally people who aying that there might be saying
Rome mude decisions at once without tak dappointment that he did not speaking into consideration the advice of of recent events, but, as a guest in others and without taking late code pre-war colonies," Britain
he did not wish to discuss sideration the historical facts, and questions which at this moment might different realities. be thought controversial.
on the practice. procedure,
He went on to say that very severe) SYSTEM THAT IS A TRAVESTY criticism could, and should, be passed "As a democrat," said Dr. Benes, means "I do not admit that the authoritarian and methods of the European de-system of government la justifled, mocracies-the great okl democracies because it is a travesty of govern as well as the smaller newer drment and nothing else.
"Because it is a travesty It cannot endure. 可
nocracies.
"COURAGE TO BACK THEORIES
The lack of belief and faith in authoritarian Governments can never believe also that the leaders of their own principles, their lack of be the real leaders of a human, civic courage.
their
unacceptable universal and Christian morality, of utilitarion opportunism as to princi-a real human education and crudi- ple, their lack of real knowledge that
Rtion.
it was necessary not merely to op- The judgment of history has pose the principles of authoritarian already condemned the dictatorial Is to prench democracy unf to
system of government, and it has also speak in highly Inudatory tornis contemned their leaders. about the freedom of nan Tel nations.
"One must have also a right con- ception of democracy as theory and one must have the corrate to put these theories to practice rightly, Justly, and courageously," saiti Dr. Ilenes.
THE NEW VICTORY OF FREEDOM
"The events of the next years in
Europe, and in the world, will show to the present generation it this judgment of story was right. My scientifle conviction is that this judg- BACKGROUND OF A DICTATOR ment was right.
There never existed a society Dictators, adventurers, occasionalEN politicians, and many of those who where the light for freedom and the considered themselves pofitical development of the free human per-
genhuses belonged frequently to category of people who were intui- !
sonality ceased.
"In the darkest period of history this fight continued, continues to-
five, imaginative, romantic, no day, and will be continued until the tional, perronally ambitious, und Very often they finished by being new victory of freedom #ill come brutal, cynical, and 03 completely
amoral as animals.
Dispassionately, and "always avoid-i ing personalities," Dr. Benes analysed the background of a Dure and
Fuehrer."
ORIGINAL IN REVOLUTION
agulo."
"LIBERTY OF MY COUNTRY"
RIGHTS OF NATIVES
The second condition would be that there must be full and adequate
safeguards for the right of the native population, with obligation to train the gradually to take a larger and larger shore in the management of their own affairs and train them for ultimate self-government.
"Next we want to make sure that the native population are safeguard- ed against being exploited for the) purpose of power politics. We must not allow them to be used for the raising of armies for the conquest of other countries and other terrl- fortes.
A FRESH START "We have the opportunity of muk- ing a clean, fresh start of the civilis- ed world for the treatment of the backward peoples. We have all the power in our own bands at present, bad on the gincerity of our declara- tian would depend the effecüveness of such a scheme."
For such a system the point was that it would not be so much a ques tion of agreement between Germany and Britain, but between the demo- cractes.
Robbed Of £800
MRS. MARY
#
HODKINSON, Blackpool housewife, of Breck-
In conclusion, Dr. Benes said: road, went to the market to buy n "Democracy will be victorious be- 2d, cabbage for her Sunday dinner. cause It is in the line of social it cost her £800. evolution and of the philosophy of jhaters.
An assistant at a stall picked the best cabbage he had so large that Mrs. Hodkinson needed both hands to hold it. She put down her bag.
A moment later she screamed and half collapsed over the stail.
Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia photo- graphed recently with his wife.
Paris-On-15s. Graduate Drinks His Winnings
OXFORD.
He set down
A YOUNG man stood in the bar of the Chequers Inn here
recently and drank a pint of old and mild. his glass with a deep sigh,
"Ripe," he declared; "ripe and nutty. Nothing like that Across the Channel."
Mr. Leonard Cheshire, 22-year-old graduate of Merton College, Oxford, had been to Paris and back to earn that pint.
A week before in the Chequers he said to Mr. Joseph Allen, an Oxford lorry driver, "I wish I was in Paris." In his pocket he had 158.
Stowaway Rang For Steward-
"My Bath Is Cold!"
The victory of democracy and
Two of the freedom in Europe means the liberty
of my country-Czecho-Slovakia."
He said "they have a mystical con- ception of the people and nation,
"They delfy the nation, they delfy Replying to questions about the the State, they identify the Stats and propaganda of totalitarian
she cried.
"My
bly bag!" and de-
It had vanished. Inside were two £100 notes, 23 of £10, one £5 note, and 365 of £1.
the ralion, and a Duce or Fuehrermocratic States, Dr. Benes said, expres-Truth prevails: finally truth always are the natural leaders us sions of the nation and of the all-prevails." mighty state as opposed to parties, “ classes, and individuals.
"The only origin of these bruders! Is through revolution. As to succes- stan in leadership they have not yet furmulated their policy."
Why Hitler Hates
Dr. Benes
wo hours after the liner Aquitania lund sailed from Southampton for New York, a bell rang in the stewards' quarters.
"Bet you a pint you can't make it," said Mr. Allen.
So the wager was made and luter Mr. Cheshire claimed his reward. He had travelled to Paris and buck on his 159, and what he had been able to earn.
"I thought that was the safest pint I'd ever wagered." sald the loser. "I was a foot. Why didn't go as well?"
Mr. Cheshire had one adventure. "I was stopped 15 miles outside: Dieppe by a very tough customer, who wanted money," he said.
"I told him I had none. He didn't believe me.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
The call came from a third-class
"It was a very dark and lonely road bathroom, and when ค bedroom with thick woods on both sides. The £100 notes were the life sav-steward answered it he found a man What's that man doing beside you?' standing undressed beside the bath, 1 said. The man turned his head. I ings of her mother, Mrs. J. Dicken- complaining bitterly that there was hit him as hard as 1 could on the jaw
sen, boarding-house keeper.
no hot water.
"that Dr. Benes saved my country.
The bedroom steward apologised, There could be no greater contrast fetched the bathroom sleward, who Speaking after Dr. Benes, Sir than Herr Hitler and
Dr.
Benes. listened to the same complaint. Walter Layton said that there had Why does Herr Hitler hate Dr.
But the bathroom steward noticed been people menti enough to say that Benes? Because Dr. Benes is right.” Leaders in authoritarian states-the Czechs should have fought.
What Dr. Benes had said he had a hat and coat hanging on a hook be-
"THEY TAKE LIFE AS CONSTANT
BATTLE"
and ran,
"The next few miles were quite the worst of the journey. I kept turning round to see if he was following."
because they were based on the iden Dr. Benes was faced with e de suid very gently, but his word spelled suspicio door, and that made him Baronet, 70, Weds
Sir
that life was a battle, that the rala-mund from England and France that the doom for the totalitarian regime, tions between nations and states he should save the world from world!
"This man," added
Walter, were a battle, because they accepted war,
"stood in the streets of Prague a year | in duly pollties methods of violence "I am thankful," sald Sir Walter, agn without a guard."
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"What is the number of your cabin, sir?" he asked the indignant man.
"Ninety-eight," was the reply. That confirmed the steward's picions there was no cabin of that number in the third class,
This story was told at Southampton Police Court recently when Edward Azevith, 30-year-old Russian, des- cribed as an engineer of Whitefeld- street, London, W., was charged with endeavouring to obtain a passage in
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She has acted as his secretary for several years.
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relief work in Russia and the Bul- kans, died last year.
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