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British Character
DR. Ley, leader of the Labour Front, who is one of the bitterest DB-3011 Prelude in C. Sharp (Rachmaninoff). Arthur Rubinstein. | haters of the British people, has
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Their leaders have been educated into a degenerate, conceited, and foolhardy lordly caste.
The British, in short, are a hopeless racial mixture, decadent and ripe for defcat.
That is probably not Dr. Ley's real opinion. Presumably he is an educated man, cognisant of
Facts.
"This so-called estimate of the British character may be nothing more than a piece of crude propa- gamla which is served up hourly as pabulum for the German people. The British people have become case-hardened to such abuse, and will not be unduly. depressed.
They will turn with relief to another foreign estimate of British character. Professor Amorin Ferreira, a scientist of Lisbon University, has published in a prominent Portuguese news- paper his estimate of the British character.
He regrets that even the educated Portuguese have little appreciation of the British character and the British contri- bution to every aspect of Western civilisation.
The Professor speaks of the British integrity of character, and of the basis of British eduen- tion, "which has so profoundly affected the world's material and spiritual development. The British people keep faith with the tradition of placing spiritual and human valuca before material interests."
The Professor says other ap- procintive things of the British, but that is enough to be going on with.
If they can live up to anything near to this estimate of their character, they should be thank- ful to their forefathers,
Like the sagas of old
BY
CARL OLSSON
ERIE and silent, the Northern Lights leap across the Arctic night. weaving their endless, gigantic dance above that land where the Finns are now living a saga...
A proper background for that eple struggle.
For I remember once, as a small' boy, my father telling me that the Northern Lights were really the re- flection from the lit windows of the great banqueting hall in Valhalla, where those who had fallen "bravely' In battle for a worthy cause
sat feasting.
A poetic fancy, perhaps, culled from remembered scraps of the old sagus, but a much better explana- tion to a child than a lot of non- scrise about magnetic storms and electrical charges.
The sagas survive as an inspira- tion to the Northern peoples. And they were the first songs of demos- racy, the first spoken and written form in which was inid down its standards and spirit.
T
HEY were not all tales of blood and battle and the doings of fantastic Norsc gods. Really, a saga is the life of a hero told from his birth to his death and composed for oral recitation.
But interwoven in this narrative of his life and adventures were almost always codes and precepts through which the rule of law and the knowledge of it was imposed on the minds of all men.
Both the poet and the saga- man or professional storyteller (often one and the same) were held in highest renown among the early Norse communities.
But his reputation was governed not only by the manner of his story and the beauty of its ex- pression, but by the way in which he could put over" lessons for the living.
UT of the beginnings of democracy were born the
Odemperagas
One thousand and ten years agu the Althing held its frat meeting in a great volcanic cleft in south-west Iceland. Twelve, men were chosen from each of the four quarters of the land to meet and draft some common law and prin- clpies by which all would be bound.
Our jury panel, incidentally, is based on those twelve men.
They met for a reason which bears heavily on us to-day. They met because the custom of de- ciding law by force of arms was ruining their country.
At the close of each yearly: 1- ston of the Althing the Lawman. or chief of the assembly, an nounced the business dono." These matters were then embodied in the sagas, and with great art
- mingled with legend and myth or
the life of some hero,
These segas would be told and retold at the festivals, so that a knowledge of custom and law was preserved in the minds and hearts of all.
one
William Morris,
of the founders of British Socialism, spent the greater part of his literary lite in translating the sagas. He did so, not merely because they happen to be supremely beautiful examples of prose and verse, but because they were the first language of democracy.
H
'KYLER, we are told, is in- terested in another aspect of the sagas➡ the "blood and thunder" myths with which some of the older writers covered their main and nobler themes.
He is. It is said, very fond of the Nibelungenlled and has christened his famous West Wall after Bleg- fried, the hero of that tale.
Now the Nibelungenlled is taken from the old Norse Volsungasaga. In that story the hero Sigurd (or Siegfried) makes himself invulner- able by bathing in a pool of dragon's blood.
But if Hitler will re-read that saga
iga he may find a disquieting moral and an omen perhaps for the futuro of his 'Impregnable" Slegfried Line.
For that blood-bath did not make Siegfried quite invulnerable, nor did it stave off retribution. While he was taking that famous bath, a leaf fell on his back and left a spot unprotected by the dragon's blood.
And it was there that "grim " Hagen's spear got him in the end.
Anyhow, it's a
SAFETY VALVE
B
by Stuart Fletcher
It is an extraordinary scene, a remarkable medley of sounds. An astrologist with a nose that flames like Mars in the ascendant
RITISH freedom is a
their gilded palaces? You need strange and peculiar Abraham! Can you leave Abraham thing. I recently spent out of your life?" the best part of a day in Hyde Park, where a large num- ber of men and women stood on portable wooden platforms and uttered for hours on end statements that in many coun- tries of the present-day world would have been an immediate passport to prison.
If these passionately earnest people had been offering amuse- ment in the form of betting slips. acceptable warmth in the form of alcoholle beverages, flattery by soliciting alms, or even selling penny postage stamps, they would have been promptly arrested.
As they were merely under- mining the British Constitution, distorting the nation's established religion of Churchianity, and uttering high treason, no one Interfered with them.
Every kind of heresy poured from the rostrums among the crowd
sume hundreds
of
of listeners.
The safety valve was wide open, for British freedom consists of the knowledge by the authorities that a boller, even when it is boiling with rage, is unlikely to burst if it can let off steam.
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"I am an Irishman. Why should I Oght for the Jews? Why should I loso
my life and go to heaven to play on Jew's harp?" -
"No statesman has ever intended that there should be peace. States- men's jobs depend on war."
"My sympathies are with Hitler." "What use are the bishops in
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
2-1A
"I just know I'm going to be an old maid-285,000
passenger air miles and not a single proposal!"
tells a gathering of twenty that nine years ago the stars foretold Russia's move into Finland.
Four grey-headed Balvationists Interrupt ther preacher with a sudden outburst of ecstatic hymn-
singing. Lifting their peaked caps from their grizzled heads they cry:
Bless me,
me Baviour, bless now!'"
A middle-aged woman with an American accent presser a pam- phlet about the Great Pyramid into my hand. "It is free," she twangs. “All the best things are free, but yhave to have a scientific mind to understand it.”
You can half close your eyes and imago yourself at a gathering of some primitive people as the voices rise and fall, shrick and wall, in the twilight, as the tribal super- stitions
are
with expounded snatches of song and brandishing of arins.
Some of the speakers are cranks, some are politiciana-passibly the All have enormous same thing, conviction, and each one is up to the
moment in the application of his doctrines.
The End-of-the-Worldera, the Astrologist, the Catholic, the Com- munist, the Anti-Jew, the Down with Imperialism man, the Pyra midist, the man in the crowd who haz an
for attractive scheme human hibernation, all of them revolve their theories and their panaceas round Hitler and. Churchill, Stalin and Mussolini, the British Navy and the Balkans.
"You have no freedom, you miserable slaves!" yells a volco over the heads of the crowd to- wards the Marble Arch.
" 'Then how is it that you're up the there saying so?." retorts heckler.
“Arh!" yells back the speaker, and pausca melodramatically. "They let me stay up here so as you'll think you're free, you poor
The crowd laughs delightedly. It in getting dark. The British- Israelite's voice boomin prophetic- ally through the gloom. "The British Navy,” he says impressively, "is undoubtedly the *ships of Tarshish mentioned in Isalat, the sixtieth chapter and the ninth verac."
He cliniches his argument." That is why our sailors are known as Jack Taral"
Itter to only the eruption of the social conditions caused by the greed of British Imperialismi "- rings out a louder challenge:
Treason's in season in Hyde Park-
·after dark.