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Federation: Nazi Model
The amazing drive of German mechanised forces has made a whole world wonder about its to-morrow. According to Nazi spokesmen, Europe will be a happier place when Germany can reorganise it. Concurrently Berlin has taken up the idea of federation, already so popular among the Allied peoples. Does this foreshadow that "happier place"? Possibly small nations with only fragmentary experi ence in democracy may be mis- led by Berlin's interest in their future; others will not be. No American, for example, could conceive-of-a-federal-union of the United States with one of the States acting as overlord of all the rest.
But the anomaly does not end here. It requires at least one more monstrosity to com- plete it: the notion that the leading State in such a union can be an autocracy and yet act
June 28, 1940.
DO WE KNOW THE FRENCH?
66\F course, the French are no exeliabla?”.
"OF
How often do we hear this remark! Mada; too, in tones of the greatest convičtion, so that otte never bothers to inquire en what grounds the speaker bases the observation.
French excitability is for most of us an established fact, which we never bother to verify, and which is bolstered up by the popular stago presentation of French people, ail shruan, gesticulations, and chatler. And that presentation is as untrue na the French_bellef that London in eternally shrouded in far, Scotland snow-bound for six months.of. the year, and the British diet an unyarfed cycle of boiled cabbage, roast beef, and rust pudding.
I remember Paris when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, when the French felt they were on the brink of invasion. There was none of the shrill agitation one might have expected, only quirt groups of people In the streets, talking earnestly and two or three conversing quietly round a cafe, table.
́ ́t saw-Paris during the strikes in the sunumer of 1936. Or again, There were no chattering mobs, only good-humoured crowds gathered round, the big shops watching for glimpses of strikers, much as a crowd at the zoo Watches for the appearance of same raro and retiring animal,
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It is true that when the French speak they restlculate and talk quickly, and to us fi looks as if they were exelied, because we usually gesticulate when speaking only if we are excited.
But the legend of the excllable Frenchman will die hard, as hard as the legend of the wicked Frenchman. There is a widespread con- viction that the French are a "naughty” race. Paris is the wicked city. But Paris is no more wicked than London, New York, or Berlin; and what "wickedness” there is, is there largely for the entertainment of the foreign visitor,
Besides. Parts is
more representative of France than London in of Britain, and in Fontainebleau, about 40 miles from Farls, the hotels cluse at 10 p.m., and there is not a soul to be seen in the sirvels after that hor
hot
But If we dispose of the legend of the excitable and wicked French- man, whose diet is popularly supposed to consist chiefly of, smalls and frogs (which I never saw any French person eating during an eight months stay in France, though I dlà see snails for sale) varled by an occasional dish of horse-flesh (which is sometimes given to invalids in France as a strengthening diet), can we put any truer picture in its place?
Well, in some respects the French and the Scots have almilar char- acteristics. Both are a thrifty race, without being mean. All French- women love a bargain, and take pride in making every centime pull Ra weight. They are a hard-working race, French people begin the day much earlier than we do (they think the British are a lazy race, though those who know enough to do so would probably make a disincilon in this respect between English and Scots, in favour of the former), and
Lots of people have had their incomes reduced by the war.
ERIC
,
seven o'clock is a normal hour for breakfast. The schools begin at. eight in the morning.
The French are fond of simple amusemenis. On Sundays they ro in familles to the parks and woods, and spend the day strolling in the sunt, reading and steeping in the shade, or paddling round the lake in about (all French parks have a pond or lake.) On public holidays they may go farther afield and spend the day fishing In worne pond or stream that is to say, papa falies, while mama cooks over a picnic fire,.. and the children tumble around.
On week-lays you will find the parks full of mothers and children, the mothers knitting and sewing (never idle-handed), the children mak- ing and-ples with the sand of the paths. Sometimes a father appears and plays with them in an unselfconscious abandon'which I have yet to neo displayed by a father in our parks.
MASCHWITZ
famous author of "Balalaika," found his income reduced-
From
£4 a
--and this
is how he
took it-
:
The French are above all a nation of families. In France the family tie is immensely strong. You can see this, for one thing, In their funeral notices. A funeral notice is not issued merely in the name of, say, the widow and the children, but also in the name of the children- in-law, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunis, and cousins of the deceased, all mentioned by name and with their relationship exactly specified.
The reason why parents in Franco exercise a greater control over the marriages of their children is because they regard a marriage not simply as union between two Individuais, bai as a union of familles,
They are, too, a very practical, logical people. Sometimes they sacrifice
comfort to practicality as in their underground railway (the Metro,) No one, they argue, would ever ride in the Metro for pleasure,. but only to go from place to place quickly. So the Metro traums are speedy, admirably organised, and und
uncomfortable.
French people like good food, smart clothes, beautiful buildings caslly run homes. They enjoy le. They believe, in letting everyone alone to enjoy life in his new way, and they expect to be left alone themselves. That's why they do not at first make so good an impression on the stranger as other races. They don't fling open their doors to you til they are sure you will be congenial company; then they will treat you with Infinite kindness and courtesy.
What more can be added? I have dwelt on the more everyday qualities of the French, but it must be remembered that, they are prob- ably the most artistle race in Europe, and that the love and apprecia- tion of art in all its forms, but more especially of painting, is widely diffused throughout the population. On Sundays the Louvre is crowded with_family parties who are enjoying the pictures,
The French are, too, an intensely patriotic people. We in Britain have nothing corresponding to the 14th of July, the day which com memorates the fall of the Basilile, and which, besides being a veritable festival of patriotism, expresses the French consclousness of that trad!- tion of Ülberty of speech and of iffe which is their greatest contribution to European culture.
£200 to week
The grand thing is—I like it. 1 like queueing anxiously for the 'bathroom at 7.30, wolfing my break- fast and galloping for the tram that rutiles me along to work. It is us- tonishing to find, at thirty-eight, that you can still have the fun you had nt twenty-three, I am not allowed to smoke at work. That saves me thirly cigarettes a day-or 10s. Od. a week.
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It is, oddly enough, no hardship do without second drink at
as protector of democracy. For SEVENTEEN Years ago to
alght in order to be able to save up
I was a waiter in a for a week-end ticket to town in a
A
J. H. Caird
AGATE
out
JAMES picked this
Weep no more, wofub Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watry floar. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anos repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,
Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the
waves,
Where other groves, and other streams- along, With Nectar pure his oozy Locks he laver, And hears the unexpressive nuptiall Song, In the blest Kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above,
their
In solemn troops and sweet Societies
and singing in
That sing
glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes,. Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no moro: Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous food.
JOHN MILTON. Elegy on a friend drowned in the Irish:
Channel, 1637.
Woman
Rules Stalin's Timber City
U on the roof of ed a near back door on to the Atlantic.
federation, as Americans, the ART CLUB
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the Nazis might mean the giv-hopeless no-good (nil), a very isis, actors and clerks. All but about in Moscow, plans to sell timber to Britain.
fitty of them get the same £40
(£6 week, live in the same tram....
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Britain.
ing of limited rights of local junior B.B.C. official
The two most useful ports on this work he and his men freed their Arctic Sea, pioneered by early ex- ship from the ice in June, but her self-government to communities wealth), editor of the Radio And they like it too. Three men plorers in an effort to find a North- keel was badly damaged. which did not oppose the Nazi Times (£20), variety director have cars and live at the local Grand East Passage to the Indies," were, drifting down the river they ran interpretation of Europe's needs. (£35), producer of "Balalaika" Hotel. They are looked down on as appropriately enough, dlacovered by ashore near an Eskimo village. Un-
(875), Hollywood screen writer parlahs.
able to refloat their battered ship,. To realise what this interpreta- of "Good-bye Mr. Chips" (£200) You see we think we are doing The landing of 150 British marines most of the crew spent the following tion is, one need only consider
... and to-day a minor Govern a job that matters. And we are in April 1918 at Murmansk, in the winter in the village,
It had been named after Yegor, a Hitler's "and policy" as out-ment official (£4).
finding in the comradeship of the north-west corner of Russlo, the first amce, the canteen lined in "Mein Kampf." The
and the billets units of the force sent to draw Ger- Samoyed flaherman-Yegorka. The cardinal rule of this policy aims
Half-way between the bad actor something precious that most of us many back to the Eastern Frost, drew Englishmen called it Igarka. and the budding novelist about had almost lost in the world of attention to the potentialities of the at a more or less constant ratio the 1924 stage that's where 1 am money, snobbery and pretence. country's all-the-year-round
ice.. between the German population [fo-day I won't pretend thai its
free port.
Fifty years inter Soviet industrial` Almost all of us have tried to get and the amount of land that the only money 1 am ever likely to Into the Army and been firmly but
the fine natural ́ ́. The Gulf Stream and Mr. Stalin surveyors decided Germans actually occupy,
have, because I made a whole heap kindly turned down for the moment. have continued in successful colla harbour beside the village in the es- The implications of such a soon to make a whole heap more.
(and spent it) and intend one day But this isn't such a bad substitute boration to make it one of the prin- tuary of the Yenisei would make an
Ideal base for the timber business. cipal. outlets for West Russia.. rule hardly fit a'pattern of true But because it happens to be all the time comes along.
Bulkt, between 1920 and 1934 with: But 1,500 miles farther east, in federation. The Third Reich's the ready
that's cash
We talk a great deal out of once the mouth of the Yenisel River, Hes the colour and casualness of an leaders have shown that they and because I believe that this is hours, after supper or aver the, add 1garka, the real outlet for Siberin's by a curious mixture of sullen, exiled
American frontier town and peopled: a time at which to work hard for bear. We don't talk about our work,{ intend its population to increase the country and not to throw money but about the times we live in and timber and the amour city of the kulaks and fanatically patriotic shop sia's amazing development in the workers, Igarka spends its short sum- steadily. This means that the around on cary living. I firmly in the Umes that lie ahead.
Arctic,
mer loading the timber freighters amount of land that Germany tend to live on my £4
convoyed through the Ice floes of the Kara Sou by fcebreakers.
coming in,
thinks in his heart of
needs must also increase steadily
NOT one of us, I believe, I came here (10 if Hitler's land policy is to be W Liverpool), they Pat me hearts that however the war may go Igarka, too, owes its origin to the In the long, dark winter die worke kept intact. Where, then,
the old world will come back again. English
of sawing and stacking loge goes on would States' rights fit in, a
in billets-gave me "digs."
I am writing this to-night in Many of us quite frankly don't want Captain Joseph Wiggins in 1870 under are lamps, while the tempera- multi-racial federation under digs. So like the lodgings of my it to. And somehow that £4 pay talked cautious London bankers into ture drops to fantastic figures which. Third Reich tutelage?
touring actor days that I have to envelope on Saturdays seems to be the Bnancing a ship to weather the Are look like an English Host-wave In
gold, reverse. Obviously talk of federation think twice to convince myself that best preparation for the new world tie and bring back a cargo under Nazi leadership is, mean- am not back in the merry old days that we've got to make for ourselves furs and timber from Biberia, then
of 1024. A rickety table, one chair, and our brothers after war,.
to the Western world a much darker Ingless in the language of a pretty comfortable bed with sheets
place than the Africa of Stanley and The Stalin of this timber city is I should add this postscript though Livingstone. peoples now enjoying federation. that feel us thin
woman-forty-five-year-old. Va- tissue paper an that cosis те four- -£4 e week or no £4 a week, I get Captain Wiggins reached the Yeal- lentina Petrovno Ostro-umova, enca As Thomas Mann has written coal of the Third Reich, "Force with- pence a night, a bath that requires back to that little table and that sei in his ship, the Thames, as winter sceretury to Lenin. Her official Lite
In the undiscoverable slot, fourpenny fire by halfpast seven and was setting in. He left his vessel in is Secretary of the Igarka City Com-j penny In and peace without-this is an a shilling shoeshine out with which all until midnight scribbling at a snug tributary of the main river mittee of the Communist Party, but impossible conjunction." It must to brighten my £5-a-pair shoes. the new play, that I hope one day and hurried back to Europe by dog she has ten times more power than
or will be as much fun to produce as sledge with stories of the fabulous the mayor of any English borough, ulso be said of federation as dis- In the wardrobe
wenith of Siberia. '
„Mme. Ostró-umova (she · left ‹æ- cussed in Berlin: Autocracy chocse, a packet of bleculis, a quar- some of the others. within and democracy without servant with supper.
ter of buller provide a dovernment PS. As we used to say in the last He repeated his great journey husband and son in Moscow to go
that's the war-Dear mother, I am sending across the snow in the opposite dirtelo the Arctic) has made her mush this is an impossible supposition: life, boys.
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