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arrangement,
Goebbels Bogles
ROBERT LYND In This Article ASKS—
HAVE WORDS LOST
THEIR
MEANING?
MR. A. P. HERBERT Thus, if you could imagine-- people have to agree that a I noticed an example of the
Y
recently broadcast a a big stretch of the imagination word means whatever he wants same thing recently in a German
Communist England en it to mean.
broadcast in English in which talk on "Bad Language." gaged in war against an Ireland
Thus when Herr, Hitler uses the speaker declared that the By this he meant the woolly which contained only three jargon and long words that Communists, those three Com- the word "freedom," the Ger- present war was organised by have alway been dear to the munists would be recognised as man, though compelled to ap- English capitalists (nided, of the "Irish people" or "prole- plaud, knows that he has to be courae, by Jewish financiers), official mind.
He knows that the word whose sole object was to destroy tariat," and the English Con- ware. There is another kind of munist Government would deny is a signal for riveting more the Socialist German State. language, however, which to an that it was making war on Ire- securely the chains that are the What, I wonder, would WII- " increasing degree in modern land or the Irish people and de- badge of his servitude. Or, liam Morris or Keir Hardie have times has become a public clare that it was really rescuing perhaps, he doesn't know. The said if anyone, und described: danger. This is the topsy turvy them from their oppressors, topsy-turvy language may have Nazism to them and called it. language which is spoken by
I do not think that is an on-
dictators and their followers-- fair picture of what the
worked.
Socialism? There is an element: Until the end of last summer of Socialism in it, no doubt,. a language in which words may Russians say they are doing in many people thought that Hitler but there are other elements mean anything, even if it is the
Finland.
meant what he said on at least in it that are more akin to Rome opposite to what they are said
Nor is it only the Communists one subject-Bolshevism. "The under Nero. Certainly if Socia- to mean in the dictionary. who use the words "peace" and sters of Russia to-day," he lism meant Nazism, none of the Thus "peace" has ceased to "war" in a sense that would not said "are bloodstained criminals great English Socialista would mean merely pence: it can also have been understood 50 years The international., Jew, he de- Nazism is based, as Herr Hitler the dregs of humanity." ever have advocated it. For mean war with tanks, incen- ago. The Nazis have a gift for
diary bombs and all the rest of the same kind of language which clared, is to-day "the absolute has made clear, on contempt for it. Japan is apparently at peace sometimes makes modern poli- master of Russia." The forces the working classes. with China; Russia is apparently ties as difficult to understand as of Bolshevism, he maintained,
modern poetry.
were "sub-human," and Ger-
at peace with Finland: at least
many could never make an al- I trust that the use of mean- war has not been declared in either case. Yet how like war
liance with them except at the ingless language-or, rather, of the whole thing seems!
chameleon Innguage that may I confess I found Herr Hitler cost of her certain ruin.
This all seemed as clear as the change its meaning to almost Russia, it is true, would pro- almost unintelligible last April
never become:
errar lly or in part without previous bably admit that she is carrying when after the march into prose of Dean Swift. And yet, anything-will
on a sort of war against somie- Prague, he said: "We have as events have proved, what popular in England.
Herr Hitler really meant was The only safeguard against it thing called the Finnish White given Central Europe a great
that Bolshevismn wasn't the is to examine carefully the- Guard. But she does not ad- fortune, namely, peace." If he mit that she is at war with Fin- had killed all the Czechs you slightest danger in the world meaning of words and to make land or the Finnish people.
and that there was might have understood him as
a natural, sure that, when anyone uses such 18 "brothers," meaning that he had given the and traditional friendship be- words Czechs the peace of the grave.
Russia and Germany. "people," "proletariat," "capi- "Imperialist," "war-
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These statements may prove
tween
word But the Czechs were still alive When he said "blood-stained talist," "People" is.. another
" was only the monger," "Jew," "Socialiat," that in recent times has come and their country had merely criminals," it to mean almost anything. It become a prison and a place of modern way of saying "jolly and so forth, he, means exactly what he says and not something may mean the majority of the torment. "Great fortune" and good pals.”
With language gone tops- quite different. inhabitants of a country, or it "peace" are not the usual words
I may be old-fashioned, but. I' may mean one or more inhabi- for this, but the Nazis have a turvy like this it is no wonder tants of a country who happen dictionary of their own, accord- that we hear the Altmark des- like words to be made to mean to agree with you. To a Com- ing to which coal may legitim- cribed as a merchant ship, and what they mean in the diction- After all, it is pleasant to munist apparently the members ately be described as white and the heroic exploit by which the ary.
British prisoners were rescued be able to understand other of the working-classes in any snow as black. country, however few they may
A Nazi has the right, if he as "bestial." Such things are people and not to be constantly-
be, who happen to agree-with-likes, to call a cigarette a pan- merely the result of the inven- wondering whether they have glass of water an tion of a national vocabulary of lost their reason or are only in- him become automatically the cake
fernal hypocrites, the clephant. And
German meaninglessness, "people" or the "proletariut."
or a
The New God: Adolf
man
Hitler
many more than all the dwellings abrond."
Replying
the highest sense, In place new "God,", Adolf Hitler. The texts: to it, the German in to be well-founded-or they may IN the whole complex of the Ger-
democratic opposition the Catholic Bishops in their "Hirten- of the crucified one." And Dr. Ley, of the Church Hymns are altered. Church movement playa ope of the brief" of May, 1933, declared:-"By even clearer: The party claims the The new version of Psalm 87 is most important roles alongside the no means do we Catholics find it hard totality of the soul of the German The Lord loveth the hills of Ger--
people. It cannot and will not suf of the working class, the people
to volue the new strong stress of ter another party or point of view middle class, and the farmers.
The struggle of the German Church authority in the German State, and to dominate in Germany. We be lieve that German people can win
And furthermore Rosenberg gave.
is a very
hard one, and it is im- we willingly submit to it."
immortality only, through National- the clue for all the terror against. Similar statements were made by Secialiam, and therefore we need the Christians. The refusal portant that this fact should come
the knowledge of the people the Protestants. These declarations the last German, neither Protestant Germanistic ideals in Germany is a throughout the world. This strug are proofs of their willingness to be
not. Doubtless they are circu- lated in good faith. The supreme triumph of Nazi propa- ganda would be to obtain the un- witting services of neutrals for its dissemination. But the re- ports are part of too long a succession of canards to have much face value.
to
gle goes very far over the frame of loyal to the Hiller regime. On July
nor Catholic."
of
pure betrayal of the people. Later the time will come which will place this crime on the same level as high--
It would be very agreeable to the enemy if large numbers of submarine chasers were diverted from the waters around the British islands to the Western Atlantic. Even if U-boats do become a nuisance in those regions, the Navy will be able to deal with them there as is being ment, it comprises the religious in- Broken Promises
¤ political group. Moreover, it B, 1933, after the Concordat with the World-Wide Ambitions unites different opposition groups, Vatican had been concluded, the The Protestant and the Catholle treason."
the Fuhrer declared that "compulsory Church did not concede to Nazism Churchpeople of the Left and 20 is becoming one of strongest factors in the fight against measures ngainst clergy and Church what was expected or demanded. Nazism and war.
This "later tima" has become real: no longer be Most of the ministers, priests, and
Church people hold that God is above with all its horrors. Pope Pius XI Her, and believe in the ideals of in his Christmas message 1037 ph--
instead love and brotherhood
of nounced:-"There is 'n persecution in
done elsewhere. But when a belligerent intends to launch some surprise blow, he does not proclaim it beforehand to all the world. It would then be only an Irishman's surprise.
Similarly with the biggest Bertha. In the last war, these Krupp monstrosities were scarce- ly worth the candle. In this war they are something of an anachronism. If Germany has myriads of bombers with which to attack British towns, why trouble with super-artillery, which would be less effective and soon wear out? That is, unless the Germans tacitly admit they cannot hope to make much im-
Speaking of the Church move-
organisations will tolerated."
stitutions as a whole, especially the .
But as in all other cases, Hitler hatred against, other nations and Germany. For a long time it has.. Protestants, which numbered 41
the did not keep his promises; he could races. Their principles are: "Thou been denied, declared to be not true.. million souls In 1933, and
not keep them. In the attempts to shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" On the contrary, we know that only Catholle Church with about 21
a few times in the world's history. "totalarise" every sphere of activity and "Thou shalt not kill." million members. Both creeds are
has such a grave and terrible per- in Germany, many efforts were made
But these views are contrary to secution been experienced. We are oppressed and persecuted alike.
People abroad cannot understand to turn the Church into a slave of the ideology and deeds of Nazism impelled to say that this persecution
why Nazism should attack religious freedom and the independence of the
from 117
in
National - Sociolian. Already "Mein Kampf," Hitler wrote:-"A
this idea of love had gained the is not lacking in either brutality or
Church. What advantage can camo politician, however, must estimate upper hand, Europe to-day would be force, nor is it free from the burn- the value of a religion, not so much nothing but a mass of many hundred Ing scars of falsification and of Hes." millions stripped bare of any charac- from the point of view of the faults ter," is the opinion of Rosenberg.
Often I was asked how is it possi-. inherent in it, but in relation to the
ble that the Church movement is also The political aims of Nazism have defended by supporters of the left. advantage of a substituie which may states:We demand freedom for all substitute appears, only fools
Article 24 of the Nazi programme be manifestly better. But until some always been to rule over the whole parties; these people are in tholr-
and world, and that can result only in point of view usually against the religious confessions in the State as criminals will destroy what is there war. For theso alms Hitlerian Christian religion. Bhut
Ogers of Loyalty
for อร they do not endanger its existence or give offence against the
on the spot."
the answer could not use peace-loving people, to
this question is a very simple. but must have war-inspired people. one. The German people have been
moral feeling of the German race," This "substitute" was found when It did not need a pacifistle peace- afraid for years of a terrible war to
Church And after his access to power in his Dr. Kerr), Minister for
Fression with their bombers in speech to the Reichstag on March 23, Affairs, made known to the world:ing religion but a "herole Fire- which Hitler's policy might lead; for
Spirit." the face of the British anti- 1833, Hitler ogala promised: "The The question of the divinity of
years they have been fighting for aircraft defences.
For that reason Rosenberg con- their liberty and peace. The Church National Government sees in the two Christ is ridiculous and unnecessary,
its existence, There are also hints of other Christian creeds most important face a new authority has arisen, as to structed the "Myth of the Superiority has also to defend "secret
weapons" than the tors for the preservation of our na- what Christ and Christianity really of the German Race," which is the attacked by Nazlem, and' preaches magnetic mine, and reports of tional values. It will respect the are-Adolf Hitler" In addition to basis of the now Nazi religious insti- peace. This was'strongly felt by the Impending German offensives treaties made between them and the this, in his "Myth of the Twentieth tution, the so-called "German Reichs Left people too, and the result was. all part of the too familiar State. The rights of the Churches Century," Rosenberg asys:"A der Church." The Christian cross is ro- their supporting the Church in the technique of the Nazis' war of will not be curtalled, their position man Church will gradually come to placed by the Swastika, the image common struggle.
In the State not altered."
represent the Fire-Spirit, the Hero of the Crucifixion by pictures of the
Camillo Holzel
norves.
,