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SOCIAL SECURITY IS WAR AIM
Labour Minister Speaks Out
"I AM sometimes asked 'What are your war aims?' My war aims are summed up in the phrase: The motive
of our life should be social security."
This declaration was made by Mr Ernest Bavin, Minister of Labour, at a Rotary Club luncheon in London.
To Benefit All
"That does not mean that all profits
"I think the time has come when we should not be led into the mistakes we made in the
or surpluses would be wiped out, but last war of merely indulging it does mean thut the whole of your in high flown platitudes about economy, finance, organisation, homes for heroes and things of selence and everything, would be that kind simply to stimulate not for a smull. middle class or for directed together to social, security, the people," he said.
those who may be more possessora "Now is the time when thoughtful of properly, but for the community people ought to be considering the 8 a whole."
The greatest social Implication real social implications of the war.
"After the last war there was a arising out of this war was the effort recognise that it was to get rid of that horrible queue fatture to
the labour exchanges, Mr outside largely, as indeed this one is, u Brent civil war, which must deter Bevin said.
mine whether we
"You have to stop that or stop the nre to be ruled whole educational system.
Better from the top or must have govern leave the masses untaught than give ment responsible to the people.
them Π 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. I can only be at- falned by the enthronement of power with the people.
"Į am afraid that at the end of this war, unless the community is seized with the importance of this, "Immediately power is taken from you may well slip into the most res 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 security winishes.
directed.
Answer To Hitler
Back To Disorder
"What I am horrified at is a blind "Unemployment has been the devil revolution of starving men that is that has driven mosses in large areas undirected and that ends in disaster of the world to turn to dictators. for the whole community,
"You cannot have social security "You have got to offer a new on the baals of the present economie, feeling of hope, and example is order.
better than precept. "We have been laught that the this old country would begin only motive for energy, production to shape and direct is now and be- and enterprise la profit.
gin to weave it into its own economie "If proût can be the only motive lite while the present struggle. Ja the natural corollary is economic going on, that would be the best disorder, and that will bring you answer to Hitler. back to the same position as you pro "I feel in my very bones that in now, ever recurring.
somehow things enn never be as they
"I want to give you the new motive were. for industry and for life.
"A new age has to be built, and "I suggest that at the end of this what greater contribution can we pay war, and indeed-during-the-war,-wa-to-those-who-ura-sufering at the accept social security as the main moment than to say that this time motive of all our national life. it is really not in valn?"
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FREE MEN can Always Beat SLAVES
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became the citizen army of the French Revolution; to the inspired defence of Madrid in our own days. BACK IN 1918
HÁT sort of war is
this? After
more than a year's fighting wo might still have no answer to this question when wo
But Wintringham's most impor- look at the ruins of a batteredtant chapter is that which deals East London street and think with the men of the British Tank that a glittering metal machine, Corps, who, in Wintringlium"R marvel of all modern science, had opinion, really won the war of 1918. to fly hundreds of miles to de- stroy a London workman's little brick house.
And, however carefully our own men aim at military targets, there must be something of this sort on the other alde, too.
So is this a war of faiths, or of men in machines dealing out death haphazardly to enemies they never sce?
FREE MEN
to
Tom Wintringham, that refresh- ing and unorthodox writer on mill- tary subjects whom many knew as Commander of the British Battalion which helped
throw back Franco's Moors in 1930 in tho "Miracle of Madrid," has written a book which would surely help the ordinary reader over his doubts.
From a wide sweep of military history ho draws the encouraging conclusion that though tymnts at the head of vast armies of drilled slave-soldiers may set up their short-lived power, they are finally 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 courage that in time of defcat win battles.** (Think of Dunkirk!)
. PROOF
The Nazis claim that the German armies were never beaten in 1018. And one thing is true: the blows suffered by the Allles là spring and early summer, 1918, were probably no less than those answering Allled 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- tringham says, from "among the highest-grade personnel of the engineering and allied trades." by "the cream of the British working- class.
These men,
"laughing about battles while they attended to the oiling 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, we should draw our hope.
When Wintringham finished his book, the free volunteers of Britain's Home Guard were digging pits against the coming of German tanks, and it seemed like a war of then against machines.
WHAT OF TO-DAY? To-day, in the great nir-bombing battles, it may at times seem like a war of machines against machines. Bur machines do not decide; both sides can produce machines.
Fussy bureaucrats and military The decision must be won by the or diehards may deny this. But Win- dinary people of London and Britain, tringham shows us how-a-handful-on-whose power-to-resist-the-severest of Greeks, reared in freedpin, over- bombing victory depends-and by hun. dreds and thousands of ordinary Britis} came a Persian king's millions,
siellled and unskilled workmen on whose brains and endurance depends our ability to out-arm the Nazi Empire.
He shows how the Roman slave Spartacus almost overthrew the power of Rome with a force, of slaves practically unarmed yet Aghting for freedom.
Ho shows how the free, quick- thinking English yeomen routed the armoured French knights with their "doctrinaire" feudal military rules. And so to modern struggles, to Washington's "straggling gang in bad boota" who set won a free America from professional German soldiers: to another rabble which
FAITH WILL WIN
And such power and endurance can only come if the ordinary people are in- spired by faith in freedom. Winiring- ham shows this: the lesson of France underlines it; it is for the British Gov- crament not. to lose sight of it during this long winter ahend,
T. R. FYVEL
*** Armies of Freedom" (Labour Book Service). 2s. 6d. •
January 30, 1941.
By Walt Disney
'Messages'
From
Sir
Oliver
Lodge
UNDER conditions of complete
secrecy, the greatest Investiga- tion luto after-life is goldg on at the London hendquarters of the Society for Psychical Research,
Locked up in their safe is the scaled envelope containing the "test" mesange 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 dend scientist,
Their evidence is being fled un- apened with the "test" message. On a date yet to be fixed the en- the velopes will be opened and messages compared.
An official of the nociety admitted that messages, claimed to have been from Sir Oilver, had been received, but refused to comment on them.
"A
special procedure aiming at glving 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 Axed, but it will not be for a con- siderable time yet."
Commenting on the fact that spiritualists were claiming to have minde contact with Sir Oliver Lodge, an ometal of the Maryle- bone Spiritualist Association-one of the largest in the country-sald that a flood of messages purport- Ing to be from Sir Oliver was to be expected.
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"Medlums 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 Str Oilver,
"The same thing happened after the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,"
Sir Oliver himself claimed many times to have communlented with his dead wife and son Raymond... led In the last war and his book on this theme caused one of the greatest sensations in scienti- fe circles.
In this book he published the "messages" he had received from his wife and son.
Of his own "test" he said before he died:
"shnil try to give a message, But It might take as long as a year. I shall not get anything in a hurry."
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LEAVING Shakespeare's
Moon out of a radioMUCH ADO
adaptation of "Pyramus and Thisbe" produced a barrel of
fun
and lively discussion
among educators at the Fourth
ABOUT
Annual School Broadcast Con- THE MOON
forence in Chicago recently.
"Wind" had been lett in. "Bot- tom's" voice from the radio had- proclaimed:
"We present the Wind."
And Wind had howled indus- triously. But "Moon"-not a word was said about him. And how, demanded indignant school, lenders In a discussion from the floor, love could you properly tell o story, especially this love story of Shakespeare's, without mentioning the Moon? Moonlight why. everyone knew the world over that moonlight 18 nasocinici with violence being "love" Wasn't done to Shakespeare?
"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 bo' was a nire,"
The howling of Wind, declared Mr Bornouw, Atted perfectly the buffoonery of the other player.. You couldn't put Moon's lantern
on the radio. How could you bring Moon in? Besides, Wind made a beautiful sound very horrifle. Moon was colourless, by compari-
son.
A Moon defender jumped up. "Just let Moon say his lines. That would fell listeners enough.”
Moon-love. Wind? Hmmpf. And so a vote was taken. But after all-school administra- tors,
teachers superintendents, have a good bit of small boy and girl in them still, as you shall see. "Wind" did make a lovely sound on the radio, He fairly made you shiver. And in the voting "Wind" won.
The radio programme followed n stage presentation of "Pyromaus and Thisbe," to show the changes needed to translate a play from the school stage to radio. Tyramus and Thisbo" presented particular- ^, ly dimeult problems and for that renson Mr Barnouw chose it. He
wanted to show what could dene.
As Shakerpoara had it, you'll re- member, there was concern about "Lion's" roaring and frightening the Duke's Indies. On the radio, it was said, with good-natured fun in Shakespeare's own vein:
"Will not the children be afeerd of the Hon? I tell you the chil- dren will not sleep after hearing
"
"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, Bollom Im- plored him to wait for the epilogue, and the Duke airly replied:
"Never listen to the very end of the programme. It is certain to contain tome commercial an- nouncements."
Faithful to the letter of the in- tent of the author, or faithful in calching the spirit of the author's intent and translating, it in fermis of the radio medium-those are the two schools of thought in adopting material for the radio, 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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