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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. Docs 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
DO WE KNOW THE FRENCH?
"OF
course, the French are so excffablet"
How often do we hear this remark! Made, too, in tones of the greatest conviction, so that one never bother to inquire on what grounde the speaker bases the observation,
French excitability is for most of ur an established fact, which we never bother to verify, and which is bolstered up by the popular stage presentation of French people, all shrugs, gesticulations, and chatter. And that presentation is as untrue as the French belief that London is eternally shrouded in for. Scotland mow-bound for six months of the year, and the Britlah diet an unvaried cycle of boiled cabbage, roast beef, and met pudding.
I remember Parts when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, when the French felt they were on the brink of invasion. There was none of the ahrlll agitation one might have expected, only quiet groups of people in the streets, talking earnestly and two or three conversing quietly round a cafe table.
Or again, I saw Parli during the strikes in the summer of 1920, 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 some care and retiring animal.
It is true, that when the French speak they gesticulate and talk quickly, and to us li looks as if they were excited, because we usually resticulate when "eaking only if we are exolled.
But the legend of the excltable Frenchman will die hard, sa hand 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 Londen. New York, or Berlin; and What wickedness" there is, is there largely for the entertainment of the foreign visitor.
Besides, Faris is no more representative of France than London is.
· of Britain, and in Fontainebleau, about 40 miles from Paris, the hotels close at 10 p.m., and there is not a soul to be seen In the streets after that hour.
But if we dispose of the legend of the excitable and wicked French- man, whose diet is popularly supposed to consist chiefly of anails and frogs (which I never saw any French person eating during an eight months stay in France, though I did seo snails for sale) varied 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 lin place?
Well, in some respects the French and the Beols have similar char- acteristics. Both are a thrifty race, without being mean. All French- women love a bargain, and take pride in making every cenilme pull its 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 distinction In this respect between English and Seots, in favour of the former), and
Lots of people have had their incomes reduced by the war.
ERIC
MASCHWITZ
famous author of "Balalaika,"
found his, income reduced-.
From
£4
a
-and this
is how he
took it-
seven o'clock is a normal hour for breakfast. The schools begin at eight in the morning.
Tue French are fond of simple amusements. On Sundays they go » in families to the parks and woods, and spend the day strolling in the sun, reading and sleeping in the shade, or paddling round the lake in a boat (all French parks have a pod or lake.) On public holidays. they may go farther afield and spend the day flabing in 'some pond or stream that is to say, papa fshes, while mama cooks over a picnic fire, and the children tumble armind.
On week-days you will find the parks full of mothers and children, the mothers knitting and sewing (never idle-handed), the chlidren mak- ing sand-pies with the sand of the paths. Sometimes a father appears and plays with them in an unselfconselous abandon which I have yet to nee displayed by a father in our parks.
The French are above all a nation of families. In France the famliy tie is immensely strong. You can see this, for one thing, in their funeral notices. A funeral notice is not inued merely in the name of, say, the widow and the children, but also in the name of the children- in-law, sisters, brothers, uncles, sunts, and cousins of the deceased, all mentioned by name and with their relationship exactly specified.
The reason why parents in France exercise a greater control over the marriages of their children is because they regard
marriage'not. simply as a union between two individuals, but as union of families.
They are, too, a very proelical, logical people. Sometimes they sacrifler 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
from place to place quickly. So the Meiro trains are speedy, admirably organised, and uncomfortable,
French people like good food, smart clothes, beautiful buildings, eastly-run homes. They enjoy life. 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 nol at first make so good an impression on the stranger as other races. They don't fling open their doors to you: till they are sure you will be congeniat 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 artistio race in Europe, and that the love and apprecia tion of art in all its forens, but more especially of painting, I 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 patriotle people. We in Britain have nothing corresponding to the 14th of July, the day which con- memorates the fall of the Bastille, and which, besides being a veritable festival of patriolism, expresses the French conscioumem of that tradi- tion of liberty of speech and of life which is their greatest contribution to European culture.
£200 to
week
The grand thing is I like it. I ~like~queueing--anxiously-for-the- bathroom at 7.30, wolfing my break- fost and galloping for the tram that ruttles me along to work. It is as- tanishing to find, ak 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 thirty cigarettes a day-or 10s. 8d.) a week.
to do without
It is, oddly enough, no hardship s second drink ut night in order to be able to save up
for a week-end ticket to town in a fortnight's time.
FIVE
ace
DIVE HUNDRED men
working at the same job as I am retired colonels, baronets,
Russian princes, barristers, journal ists, nciers and clerks. All but about
fifty of them get the
same £4 o
A
J. II. Caird
AGATE
JAMES picked this out
Weep no more, woful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watry floor. So sinka the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon 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 cozy Locks he loves, And hears the unexpressive nuptiall Song In the blast Kingdoma meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops and sweet Societies
That
sing, and singing in their glory mouc,
And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes, Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
JOHN MILTON. Elegy on a friend drowned in the Irish
Channel, 1037.
Woman Rules Stalin's Timber City
on the roof of the world, right inside the Arctic Circle.
Uusia has opened a new back door on to the Atlantic.
It is a back door diplomatically as well as geographically. Through it Stalin, while shaking hands with Hitler's trade envoys- in Moscow, plans to sell timber to Britain.
as protector of democracy. For SEVENTEEN Years ago I was a waiter in a federation. as Americans, the British peoples, or the success-
cafe in France (308. a ful Swiss understand it. is week), then a publisher's synonymous with democracy. dogsbody ($2), an actor Federation in the language of (£8), a-budding novelist (£5), a the Nazis might mean the giv-hopeless no-good (£ nil), a very ing of limited rights of local junior B.B.C. official (£6 week, live in the same tram...
The two most useful ports on this work he and his men freed their Arctic Sea, pioneered by early ex- ship from the fee in Jime, but her self-government to communities wealth), editor of the Radio And they like it too. Three menplorers 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 ns appropriately enough, discovered by ashore near an Eskimo village. Un-
(£75), Hollywood screen writer pariahs. To realise what this interpreta of "Good-bye M:, 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- Job that matters. And we are in April 1910 at Murmansk, in the winter in the village, Hitler's "land policy" as out-ment official (4).
Anding
It had been named after Yegor, a in the comradeship of the north-west corner of Russin, the first
Asherman--Yegorkn., The lined in "Mein Kampf.
office, the canteen and the billets units of the force sent to draw Ger- Samoyed The cardinal rule of this policy aims
Half-way between the bad actor something precious that most of us many back to the Enstern Front, drew Englishmen called it gorka.
the budding ond
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 I am money, snobbery and protence.
country's all-the-year-mund Ice-- between the German population to-day, I won't pretend that its
free port.
Fitty years later Soviet industrial Almost all of us have tried to get and the amount of land that the only money I am ever likely to into the Anny and been Armly but The Gulf Stream and Mr. Stalin surveyors decided the fine natural 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 Yenisel would make an (and spent it) and intend one day But this isn't such a bad substitute boration to make. It one of the prin- tuary: The implications of such soon to maite a whole heap more.
ideni base for the timber business. elpal outlets for West Russia. rule hardly fit à pattern of truc But because it happens to be all the time comes along,
Built between 1029 and 1934 with But 1,500 miles further east, in the colour and castiness of on federation. The Third Reich's the ready cash that's coming in. We talk a great deal out of office the mouth of the Yenise! River, lies American frontier town and peopled
Britain.
able to refloat their battered ship,
leaders have shown that they and beenuse I believe that this is hours, after supper or 'over the odd} Igarka, the real, outlet for Siberia's by a curious mixture of sullen, exiled. a time at which to work hard for heer. We don't talk about our work timber and the glamour city of Ruse kulaks and fanatically patriotic shop intend its population to increase the country and not to throw money but about the times we live in and sia's amazing development In the workers, Igarku spends its short sum- steadily. This means that the around on cary living. I firmly in the times that lle ahead amount of land that Germany tend to live on my £4. needs must also increase steadily
'.
Aretic,
if Hitler's land policy is to ba
then,
I came here (to verpool). they put In billets-gave me "digs."
NOT one of us,
I bellove, thinks in his heart of Igarka, too, owes its origin to the me hearts that however the war may go
the old world will come back again. English.
mer loading the timber freighters convoyed through the ice floes of the Karn Sea by icebreakers.
In the long, dark winter the work
of sawing and stacking logs goes on
kept intact. Where, would States' rights fit in a I am writing this to-night in Many of us quite frankly, don't want Captain Joseph Wiggins in 1870 under are lumps, 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 financing a ship to weather the Arc- look like an English -heat-wave in. Obviously talk of federation think twice to convince myself that bost preparation for the new world tle and bring back n cargo of gold, reverse. under Nazi leadership is mean- of 1924. A rickety table, one chair, and our brothers after war.
I am not back in the merry old days that we've got to make for ourselves fure and timber from Siberia, then 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 fool. as thin as tissue paper
a woman forty-five-year-old. Va four 41 a week or no £4 a week, I get Captain Wiggins reached the
Yent lentina Petrovna Ostro-umova, once As Thomas Mann has written coal fee that costs, me of the Third Reich, "Force with pence a night, a bath that reculres back to that little table and that sel in his ship: the Thames, as, winter secretary to Lenin. Her official le
e penny in the undiscoverable slot,
fourpenny are by halfpast seven and was setting in. Ho left his vessel in Is Secretary of the Igarka City Com in and peace.without-this is an a shilling shoeshine outfit with which sit until midnight- scribbling at
mug tributary of the main river mitee of the Communist Party, but impossible conjunction." It must to brighten my £5-4-pair shoes.
the now play that I hope one day and hurried back to Europe by dog ale has ten times more power than will be as much fun to produce us pledge with stories of the fabulous the mayor of any-English borough. also be said of federation as dis- In the wardrobe a carton
some of the others,
wealth of Siberia. Parthian
Mmo. Ostro-umova (she left n cussed in Berlin: Autocracy or of butter provide a Government
cheese, a packet of biscuits, a within and democracy without servant with supper that's the this is an Impossible supposition. Ilfe, bays..
quar-
P.S.: As we used to any in the last war"Dear mother, I am sending you, a pound-but not this week!"!
He repeated his great. Journey husband and son in Moscow to go across the snow in the opposite diree to the Arctle) has made her mush- tion in the spring. After two months Turn to. Pago 9, Second Column