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After the Canadians, the Anzacs. Britain welcomes them all, cordially
and proudly.
More praise is due, too, lo the
"I
fate of Homo Sapiens*
HAVE been asked to set down as simply *and clearly as I can, in one compact book, the reality
of the human altuation.
"That is to say, I have been asked to state the world as I see it and what is happening to it. This is the result.'
Navy for convoying them around Wells launches a book which In these words Mr. H. G.
the globe without mishap.
timid, cunning and inordinately vain.
Most of the acts of Mr. Chamber- lain since September, 1938, have been as irresponsible as those' of any Dictator, equally unscrupulous and far more shameful. He has in- deed made himself Dictator by tact and betrayal instead of by violent seizure.
HITLER
Insane; he shows all the sym- toms of a recognised form of sex mania, the jealous fear and hate of the great raping black man-who la his case becomes the Jew,
Citizens of the British Common-whole world scene and depicts
in 330 pages ranges over the IT is plain that the Fuehrer is wealth in both hemisplieres rejoice in neat pen portraits all the at the free, prompt and unanimous big men of the day and the decision of the British Dominions problems they are trying to
solve. to join in the struggle against Hitler. Nothing has surprised for solution-to-their-problems-the-
It sets down Wells' own private
eign countries more sharply, and nothing has angered Hitler more deeply.
The British Commonwealth has its merits and its faults. In war time, we see it at its best-n free association of democratie peoples who spontaneously unite fugether to resist the threat of barbarism.
education of mankind till it is ft for a democracy in which there is real equality, economic justice. universal education, and full know- ledge for all those who desire to know.
He calls his book, "The Fate of Homo Sapiens," and it is published by Secker and Warburg at 78. Od. Here are some of the things he has to say:
Democratic sentiment, despite Mr. | MR. CHAMBERLAIN
is in the worst possible taste. Yet I cannot explain the twists and turns of Mr. Neville Chamberlain unless I use the terms I do,
H. G. Wells article in the adjoints and gained writing. The ing columns, is the soul of the Bri- tish Commonwealth. A beloved King in ita font. And, thanks to the Navy, it has teeth as well
or
How can I adorn him with splen- did prose? I cannot see him as anything but essentially ignorant, narrow-minded, subconsciously
-To-day's Thought..
THE future is purchased by
the present.
---SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Since in his case the obsession endangers the lives of people about him, he should be certified
“and ̈put”under restraint.
But insanity has its advantages as well as its bandicaps. It involves an abnormal concentration of pur- pose and nervous energy.
MUSSOLINI "OMPARED with Hitler he is sane. Intelligent and human. He is vain, rhetorical and im- mensely energetic, with the energy not of morbid concentration but physical abundance.
He is what many men would like to be.
Where Hitler is an unqualified horror. Mussolini often is, 48 schoolboys say, a bit of an ass- which is much more endearing..
Until we remember the castor oil campaign, and the poison bombs in Abyssinia and the Lipari Islands, he is a lark. But then the lark stops singing.
S
STALIN
STALIN I liked when I talked to him. I did not think he had
an overwhelming intelligence, but
THEY HAVE
97,412
I thought he was honest strong and human,
and
I have been disillusioned about him mainly by those foolish Alms of personal propaganda he has allowed to be made, "Lenin on October," for example.
JEWS
WHY should any country want
these
inassimilable allens bent on preserving their distinct- nics9?
Until they arc prepared to assimilate and abandon the Chosen People Idea altogether, their troubles are bound to intensify.
ROYALTY
.
THE monarch professes to act
L-only on the advice of his or her -- Ministers, but as a matter of fact the Court is a centre of social and administrative influerice of an en- tirely undemocratic sort
A crown is a symbol of graded privilego.
In the place of Hell Hitler or the Fascist salute, these royalist peoples, at the sound of their par- ticular National Anthem, stand stimy to attention with an air of ineffable reverence.
It is a quito parallel act of wor- ship, and as complete a repudia- tion of the persozial responsibility of democracy.
RUSSIA
HEN everything that can be
Wald has been said against it.
Russia still seems to be ahead of the rest of the world' in its pro- gress towards the practical realis- ation of the complete democratic idea,
Whether it will go on and keep that lead is quite another matter.
The Bolsheviks, planies them-- selves, had to take over a land
RIVAL WHO IS
A
A YEARS
AHEAD
shattered, impoverished, chaotic. invaded from every direction, and make a working system of it, some sort of new order, however rough and clumsy, or perish.
And they have made a new order, rough and clumay still per- haps in many aspects, but holding together, and not nearly so rough and clumsy as it might have been. JAPAN
THE rulers of Japan to-day are Nazis without a Hitler, Fascista. without a Mussolini.
In Japan are the same factors that existed in Russia in 1918, the factors of a crude and violent social revolt. There is no greater threat to Government than the return of a defeated army.
It will go ill in such an event with nobles and dignitaries and priests, and it is quite among the possibilities of the next few years that the last divine heir of the Sun Goddess may share a parallel Inte co that of the last Little Father of Russia.
Then, starting from nn even lower level than Russia in 1918, Japan will have to reconstruct its social and economic ilfe.
That may be one possibility, but history never repeats itself exactly, and revolutionary methods have changed very greatly in the last twenty years.
CHINA
THE chief forecs operating to produce the China of to- utorrow are Chinese Communism, or, to define it more clearly, para- Communism, and Chlang Kai- shek's New Life movement, which is plainly
para-Fasciam.
They may combine against the
common enemy, but they have no real convergence. The end of the war with Japan will release, rather than conciliate, their oppositions.
China liberated will become more and more
ore a ba
battleground of world Ideologies. Sho will waver between Soviet Russia and Fascism, be-- tween Christianity of the J. D. Rockefeller type, on the one hand, and a tentative Bociallam after the fashion of the New Deal, rather to the left of the Now Deal, on the ether.
BRITAIN
from exercising any.
world Great Britain is much. affairs, more likely to withdraw into itself..
Sfurther, ndership
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THE FUTURE
"HERE is no creed, no way of Rving loft in the world at all, that really meets the needs of the time.
In spite of all my disposition to
Few people realise the extent by which the free Dominions can ald the Motherland in this fight against Hitlerism. In this war they are mobillaed to a much fuller extent than in the last and, what is more, they have attained power in many ways in increased populations, In increased productivity, In increased wealth. In all of Europe there are only eight countries who can boast more people than either Canada or Australia. There are larger popu- lations in both Dominions than in JAPAN celebrated the 2,000th died because none of them was infter the War of Independence, Switzerland, Sweden, Austrin, Bul-
anniversary of its foundation fgreat enough to govern it. One it is 164 years old.
of them received a large part of: garin, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, as an Empire this week.
POLAND, CZECHO-SLOVA- Norway, Portugal, Scotland It makes you think how com- what eventually became France KIA and several other States a brave-looking optimism, I per-
as his share.
were only twenty-two years old. celve now that the universo in Slovakia. Even plucky little Fin-paratively young most of the GERMANY is only sixty-nine They were founded after the bored with man, is turning a hard land, which fights the entire might grent nations of the world are years old. It was proclaimed in war in 1918.
face to him, and. I see him being of Red Rusafa, has but half the ENGLAND is 1,111 years old. the Gallery of Mirrors at Ver-
carried along the stream of fate * SPAIN is 470 years old. A to degradation, suffering. ána. population of either Canada or Aus-It became a kingdom in 828 sailles in 1871 after the end of marriage made it into a king- death.
dom, Ferdinand II. of Arágon That, compactly, is the human. In the last war, Australia mobilis- under King Egbert. Before then the Franco-Prussian war.
Before that Germany had married "Isabella of Castile in outlook, the only possible alterna- ed 412,953 men, sent 357,781 over it had been seven kingdoms
been a mosaic of small States. 1469.
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to the wilful and strenuous sons. The ALF. lost 58,132 dead under seven warring Kings.
adaptation by re-education of our In the time of Napoleon there) and had a total casualty list of England and Scotland were were more than three hundred membered, is only 100 years urging in this book.
BELGIUM, It is seldom re- species now-forthwith-that I am 214,300, higher. In proportion than united when James I. succeeded of them. the casualty lists of either Britain, in 1603.
old. In 1830 it belonged to
Adapt or perish, that is and France or Germany..
ITALY is only seventy-nine Holland, but in that year there always has been the implacable And, what is more, the Dominions and Ireland, which meant the 1861 out of the separate States gium became a separate king- just possible. That is as much as..
The Kingdom of Great Britain years old. It was founded injwas a national rising and Bel-law of life for all its children.
salvaging of the species is still equipped and maintained their own end of the Scottish Parliament, of foreign provinces of Pied-dom under Leopold of Saxe- the most hopeful mind can say. forces in 1914-18. The million did not come until 1707, and is mont, Sardinia, Lombardy. Tus-Coburg, Queen. Victoria's uncle. men they sent to Europe aided therefore 233 years old,
cany, Modena, Parma, No But ensily the oldest of them materially in the Allied victory, FRANCE is 1,097 years old. Romanga and Sicily:
all, at least according to her own Hitler faces more than England It was not born until the year THE UNITED STATES, it is claime, is China. According to and France. He faces *** Empire 843. Three sons of Charlemagne odd to recall, is older than many legend the "Celestial Empire" la apon which the sun navor sets, cut up his vast empire when he European States. Born in 1776 100,000 years old.
iralik.
Fine old Latin phrase, meaning “you and me. and the rest of us.