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SOCIAL SECURITY
IS
WAR AIM
Labour Minister Speaks Out
"I AM sometimes asked What are your war aims?' My war ains are summed up in the phrase: The motive
of our life should be social security."
This declaration was made by Mr Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, at a Rotary Club luncheon in London.
"I think the time has come when we should not be led into
To Benefit All
"That does not mean that all profits the mistakes wo made in the
or surpluses would be wiped out, but last war of merely indulging it does mean that the whole of your in high flown platitudes about economy, finance, organisation, homes for heroes and things of science and everything, would be that kind simply to stimulate directed together to social security, the people." he said.
WAS
not for u'small middle class or for those who may be more possessors of property, but for the community as whole,"
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The greatest social Implication
"Now is the time when thoughtful people ought to be considering the real social implications of the war.
"After the lost war there was a arising out of this war was the effurt fallure to recognise that it
io get rid of that horrible queue outside the labour exchanges, Mir largely, as indeed this one is, great civil war, which must deter Bevin sald. mine whether we are to be ruled from the top or must have govern ment responsible to the people.
"You have to stop that or stop the Belter whole educational system.
leave the masses untaught than elve them a double appetite, both of stomach and head, then not satisfy either..
"The last 20 years has demon strated that security cannot be at tained by arms. It can only be at
"I am afraid that at the end of tained by the enthronement of power this war, unless the community is with the people.
seized with the importance of this, "Immediately power is taken from you may well slip into the most re- the people and given to a ruler at volutionary action-though I don't the top or a military oligarchy then mind revolutions if they are well Eccurity vanishes,
Back To Disorder "Unemployment has been the devil that has driven masses in large areas of the world to turn to dictators,
You cannot have social security on the basis of the present economie order.
"We have been taught that the only motive for energy, production and enterprise is profit.
directed.
Answer To Hitler
"What I am horrified at is a blind revolution of starving men that is undirected and that ends in disaster for the whole community.
a new
"You have got to offer feeling of hope, and example is better than precept.
"If this old country would begin to shape and direct it now and bo- gin to weave it into its own economle life while the present struggle is going on, that would be the best
"If profit can be the only motive the natural corollary is economie disorder. and that will bring you answer to Hitler. back to the same position as you are In now, ever recurring.
"I feel in my very bones that somehow things can never be as they
"I want to give you the new motive were. for industry and for ille,
"A new age has to be built, and
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can
FREE MEN
Always Beat SLAVES
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HAT sort of war 18 this? After
more than a year's fighting we might still have no answer to this question when wo look at the ruins of a battered East London street and think that a glittering metal machine, marvel of all modern science, had to fly hundreds of miles to de- atroy a London workman's littlo brick house.
And, however carefully our own men alm at military targets, there must be something of this sort o11 the other side, too.
So is this a war of faiths, or of men in machines dealing out death haphazardly to enemies they never Bee?
FREE MEN
Tom Wintringham, that refresh- ing and unorthodox writer on mill- tary subjects whom many knew as Commander of the British Battalion which helped to throw back Franco's Moors in 1936 in the *Miracle of Madrid," has written a book which would surely help the ordinary reader over his doubts.
From a wide sweep of military history he draws the encouraging conclusion that though tyrants at the head of vast armies of drilled elave-soldiers may set
up their short-lived power, they are anally always overthrown by men trained to think for themselves as Indivi- duals and inspired by love of free- dom to the "laughing, energy-in- toxicated, careless feats of courago that in time of defeat win battles." (Think of Dunkirki)
PROOF
Fussy bureaucrats and military
became the citizen army of the French Revolution; to the inspired defence of Madrid in our own days.
BACK IN 1918
tant chapter is that which deals But Wintringhain's most impor- with the men of the British Tank Corps, who, tra Wintringham's opinion, really won the war of 1918. The Nazis claim that the German armies were never beaten in 1918. And one thing is true: the blows auffored by the Allies in spring and early summer, 1018, were probably. no less than those answering Allied" attacks before which the Kaiser's drilled army broke and collapsed.
OUR HOPE
But what happened on the British side? The tanks. new weapons, manned by men, as Win- tringlam says, from "among the highest-grade personnel of the engineering and allled trades," by "the cream of the British working- class.
These men,
"laughing about battles while they attended to the clling of a gun-swivel or saw to a sprocket," went into action and, out of the worst defeat, smashed the way to victory.
And from these men, not barrack- drilled, but trained to think, wo shodli draw our hope.
When Wintringham finished his book, the free volunteers of Britain's Home Guard were digging pits against the coming of Germann tanks, and it seemed like a war of men against machines,
WHAT OF TO-DAY? To-day, in the great air-bombing battles, it may at times seem like a war of machines" against machines But machines do not decide; both sides can produce machines. ·
The decision must be won by the or-
I suggest that at the end of this what greater contribution can we pay diehards-may-deny this. But Win-dinary people of London and Britain war, and indeed during the war, we to those who are suffering at the accept social security as the main moment than to say that this timeringham shows us how a handful motive of all our national life.
it is really not in valn?"
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Ho shows how the Roman slave Spartacus almost overthrew the power of Rome with n force of slaves practically unarmed yot Aghting for freedom.
He shows how the free, quick- thinking English yeomen routed the armoured Frencli knights with their "doctrinaire" feudal military rules. And so to modern struggles, to Washington's "straggling gang in bad boots" who yet won a free America from professional German soldiers: to another rabble which
on whose power to resist the severest bombing victory depends-and by hun. dreds and thousands of ordinary British brains and endurance depends our skilled and unskilled workmen on whore ability to out-arm the Nazi Empire. **
FAITH WILL WIN
only come if the ordinary people are in; And such power and endurance can spired by faith in freedom. Wintring ham shows this: the reason of France underlines it; it la for the British.Gav ernment to lose sight of it during this long winter ahead.
T. R. FYVEL
*"Armies of Freedom" (Labour Book Servios), 21. 6d.
January 30, 1941
By Walt Disney
*Messages From
Sir Oliver Lodge
DER conditions of complete
UNDER
secrecy, the greatest investiga- tion into after-life is going on, at the London headquarters of the Society for Psychleni Research.
Locked up in their sate is the sealed envelope. containing the "test" message left with them by Sir Oliver Lodge, famous scientist and spiritualist, before his death.
They are now receiving frequent messages from mediums who claim that they have been in touch with the dead scientist.
Their evidence is being filed un- opened with the "test" message. On a date yet to be fixed the en- velopes will be opened and the, messages compared.
An official of the soclety admitted have that messages, claimed to been from Sir Oliver, had been received, but refused to comment on them.
"A special procedure alming at giving the greatest possible value to the test is being followed out," she said. "Evidence is being as- sembled but it will not be made known until the 'test' message is opened.
The date has not yet been fixed, but it will not be for a con- siderable time yet."
Commenting on the fact that spiritualists were claiming to have made contact with Sir Oliver Lodge, on amelal of the Maryle- bone Spiritualist Association-one of the largest in the country—suid that a flood of messages purport- ing to be from Sir Oliver was to be expected.
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"Mediums are only human be- ings," he said, "and frequently very ordinary Human beings.
"Messages which they receive they are inclined to link with things that are uppermost in their minds or with public figures like Sir Oliver.
"The same thing happened after the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
Sir Oliver himself claimed many times to have communicated with his dead wife and son Raymond- killed in the last war-and his book on this theme caused one of the greatest sensations in selenti- le circles.
In this book he published the "messages" he had received from
wife and son.
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Of his own "test" he said before he died: “I shall try to give a message. But it might take long as a year. I shall not get anything in a hurry.".
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LEAVING Shakespeare's
Moon out of a radio
'adaptation of "Pyramus and Thisbe" produced a barrel of fun and lively discussion among educators at the Fourth Annual School Broadcast Con- ference in Chicago recently.
"Wind" had been left in. "Bot- tom's" voice from the radio had proclaimed:
"We present the Wind."
And Wind had howled indus- triously. Bul "Moon"-not a word was said about him. And how, demanded indignant school leaders in a discussion from the door, could you properly tell a love story, especially this love story of Shakespeare's, without mentioning the Moon? Moonlight — why, everyone knew the world over that moonlight Je associated "love." Wasn't violence done to Shakespeare?
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"Shakespeare was kidding the stage of his day," defended Erik Barnouw of Columbia University, who wrote the script for the radio adaptation. "Pyramus and This- be' was a satire."
The howling of Wind, declared Mr. Barnouw, Atted perfectly, the buffoonery of the other players. You couldn't put Moon's lantern
MUCH ADO ABOUT
THE MOON
on the radio. How could you bring Moon In? Besides, Wind made a beautiful sound very horrific. Moon was colourless, by compart
con.
A Moon defender jumped up. *Just let Moon say his lines. That would tell listeners enough.” ·
Moon-love. Wind? Hmmpf. And so a vote was taken, But after all-school administra- tors, superintendents, teachers have a good bit of small boy and girl in them still, as you shall sec. "Wind" did make a lovely sound on the radio. He fairly made you shiver. And in the voting. "Wind" won.
The radio programme followed a stage presentation of "PyramTILLS and Thisbe," to show the changes needed to translate a play from the school stage to radio: "Pyrainus. and Thisbe" presented particular-; ly difficult problems, and for that reason Me Bamouw chose it. Ho
wanted to show what could donc.
As Shakespeare had it, you'll re- member, there was concern, about "Lion's" roaring and frightening the Duke's ladies. On the radio, it was cold, with good-natured fun in Shakespeare's own veln:
"Will not the children be afeerd of the Hon? I tell you the chil- dren will not sleep after hearing it."
"Well, we'll have an announce- ment, and the announcement will say it is not a lion."
At the end of the play, as the Duke started to leave; Bottom im- plared him to wait for the epilogue," and the Duke alrily replied;
"Never listen to the very end of the programme. It is certain to contain some commercial an- nouncements."
Faithful to the letter of the in- tent of the author, or faithful in catching the spirit of the author's intent and translating it in terms of the radio medium-those are tho "two schools of thought in adapting material for the radlo, sald”. Wynn Wright of the National Broadcast- ing company, who directed the play.
Well-Moon or Wind? Moon and Wind? It was fun anyway, Shakespeare would have liked it.
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