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August 9, 1941.
by Dorothy Thompson
The ABBEY..
The MUSEUM..
The COMMONS
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, the British
Museum, and the House of Commons. No three structures in the world more completely embody the dignity of Man.
The Christian Church and tomb of heroes, sages, statesmen, poets;
The world's greatest library; receptacle of the wisdom of ages; record of the timeless thought of Man; fountain to which the thinkers of all countries, in all languages, have repaired, open to all, at the service of all:
The Commons, symbol of the longest, most uninterrupted, and most dignified and enligh- tened experience of popular government that the world has ever known.
When the Nazis burned the Reichstag the world should have 'leapt to arms. For in all the wildness there is always a certain pattern, ominous, symbolical, portentous."
When they set fire to synagogues they made a little trial arson on the abodes of the human soul. Soon, and inevitably, it would be the Abbey. When they burnt the books in the public square-just a few years ago--soon, soon the world should have known, it would be the Museum.
THE Abbey, the Commons, the Museum, are
not just buildings. They are history-the history of the human soul and the human mind, struggling upward, ever upward, toward light, toward freedom, toward knowledge, toward grandeur.
THEY ARE BEYOND THE PRESENT AND BEYOND BRITAIN. THEY BELONG TO MANKIND-TO THE PAST-TO THE FUTURE.
They are the link between what Man, for thousands of years, has considered good and worthy to be praised, and the better and truer to-morrow which he must build:
These are what are falling, falling, falling in the moonlit night, or falling in the blazing light of the fires of hell.
Falling is the temple of Man's Soul, fall- ing are the monuments to the great dead that remind us constantly of the sacrament of Life, falling is the careful structure of beauty and of wisdom, falling are the parliaments of Man.
Our
ten
of the most remarkable of
David Low's cartoons appeared.
It showed the outstretched
Falling is Western civilisation. A world is passing away, in wantonness o'erthrown. Wanton. Senseless. Insano. Idiotic. Evil. Even trivial.
Yes, even trivial. Trivial. this childish, barbarian, crazy assault upon the human race. A few boys with some machines and explosives press buttons, and where are you, Shakespeare, and where are you, Blake, and where are you, oh, long deep memorable history of Man?
THIS war is to stop the destroyers of civilisa- tion in their tracks. To defend the Abbey, the Museum and the Common.
To see to it that though they lie in rubble, and the very dead are exploded out of their tombs into the light of arson brighter than day, and the records of a thousand searching brains are mingled with the ashes of a surprised child's hair, and the representatives of the people must meet under the sky of a roofless hall-to see to it that nevertheless-
THE ABBEY STANDS; THE MUSEUM LIVES; THE COMMONS MEET, BECAUSE THE HUMAN WILL CANNOT BE BROKEN.
It is better to say nothing at all, perhaps. To stand still in deepest awe. To look to gaze hard, not to avert the eyes-not for n moment--to stare, to think, to realise.
To realise, a world without the Abbey, the Museum, the Commons.
A world without aspiration, love, rever- ence, wisdom, freedom.
THERE is a touch-and-go chance that we may save enough civilisation to build another
world on, but no chance at all unless we risk our skins.
And our lives, fortunes, and sacred honour.
And our savings, wages, and standard of living.
And if Hitler. wins?
What are savings? Are they in the bank? Or in the Abbey, the Museum, and the Commons?
Second
By VERA BRITAIN
hand of God, holding upon its palm the contentious political sighted men and women because puppets of that day. The cap- our ideas of the conduct to be tion beneath the picture (which demanded of them have ad- I quote from memory) ran: vanced since 19187 "Little men, little men, must I teach you another lesson?"
What evidence exists, after
Lesson
ALL DOWN — Demolished by a dynamite charge, the north tower of London's famed Crystal Palace.comes tumbling down.. About 800 tons of cast iron are sal-
vaged for munitions,
RUSSIA HAS 200 SUBS
RUSSIA finds her greatest naval strength in sub- marines-200 of them and 50 more building—and in minelaying.
One of these submarinės is the old British L55, built in 1918. She was lost in a collision in the Baltic in 1919 and salved.
The main plank of Russian naval strategy is defence, though in recent years her admirals havo talked of a big offensivo. navy. Three 35,000-ton battle. ships are believed to be building.. Yet all the time--not in spite But shipbuilding in Russia is but because of the blows that slow, and Russia enters the war our pride has received-we are, with her surface navy still I believe, developing a humbler
spirit and a greater sense of mainly a defensive weapon, realism.
relying on her- submarines, her THE GREAT CHANGE 75 destroyers, and her mine. Our British capacity for self-layera. deception is being undermined -let us hope for ever.
The Soviet Navy is disposed
Not only have we learned that in four fleets-Baltic, Black Sea, twenty months of conflict, that human nature can change. It Aretic, and the Pacific-and all To-day we are enduring that we are more ready for a spiri- has changed, it is changing, havo been on exercises during second lesson-we who for tual revival (and our choice of week by week and day by day. the war. twenty years elected as our our rulers will be determined by The second contrast lies in rulers a series of inept politi- nothing less) than we were the fact that Britain, exempt SECRET BUILDING cians who proved capable of pre- after twenty months of another for centuries from the lenyy paring neither for peace nor for war, in 1916?
war.
AND ANSWER
Admiral Kuznetsov, the cost of war to civilians in the Soviet's 39-year-old Naval Com fighting areas, has now become Whether we are being pun-
the major battlefield,
missar, knows Russian shilors. ished by God or are paying tho The answer, I think, lies Today the failure of men and have courage. But courage is price of our own inertia is a partly in the immense contrast women to work for the lasting not enough. Kuznetsov has question that each reader will between the characters of the peace that they might have striven to teach his men how to answer according to his or her. two great wars..
achieved has brought whole na- run a ship. theology.
tions into the struggle. Mainly, as I see it, this differ- Not only the workmen in the question the new war may Have they learned? It is a We should not unduly dis- ence is twofold.
factories, but the mothers in parage our incompetent states-
It is important to us. First, since
their homes run risks compara- Let us examine possibilities: the opening men-not even the disastrous months of "Sitzkrieg" ended ble to those of the fighting Baldwin Macdonald Baldwin with, the invasion of Sean- soldier in the war of 1914. sequence pilloried in "Guilty dinavia, this war has been one This shared experience, es- Men."
of perpetual motion which has pecially among those of us who'
To do so is merely to indulge dumbfounded us with our in- have known for many months in one more of those forms of ability to follow the rush of the hazards of target cities, is not merely making us kinder to- self-righteousness with which events.
wards each other.
We
n nation at war is apt to con- Nothing could differ more sole itself, By blaming the vividly from the opening months
SETTLING TIME lenders whom
Despite the roar for reprisals, ourselves, of 1916, when every combatant which comes mainly from com- selected, Wo merely
avoid country was depressed by the fortably remote arcus, we are acknowledging the measure of costly stalemate of prolonged more tolerant than we were to our own responsibility.
Answer.
Black Sea: Here Germany has been able to defy our blockado; now Russia can send ships, 48 big as destroyers, from the Baltic to the Black Sea by her canal system. Baltic: Russian submarines operating from the Gulf of Finland may Interrupt Ger many's supply lines to Scan- dinavia.
Arctle: Russia can see to it that no Gorman ship can find a hiding place in northern.
wards those other suffering men and women whom, for the time being, we must call our foes.
Because we civilians have suf-wators. fered widely and severely, we are learning that the wages of sin-whether ours or Germany's lic in the logic of history, and there alone.
trench warfare. QUESTION
To-day, with events constantly There is only one permanent on the move, our ideas also take question, now, to which the wings. Even since 1989 we anawer really matters. Put in have altered profoundly in our several different ways, It is estimate of what we can face,
accept and endure, this:
Have
Without the consolations of we learned anything from our accond experience of antional success. or personal The consequences of spiritual glory, we know that we can find falluro 7
enough courage to accomplish our daily tasks. What are the signs that when Whether our work is directed avenging we recover the right to renew, towards war to-day or peace to promising to hang Hitler and our leaders, we shall choose bet morrow, our energy and ideal bankrupt Germany, but coura ter than before?
Pacific: The movements of Axis ralders may have attention. To support her submarines, It may even be that when the Russia has three 30-year-old ninelayors and destroyera, time for a settlement comes, our battleships with 12-inch guns; Second Lesson will have taught ive 8,000-ton cruisera with 7.1- us to send to Westminster, not in. guns; and two 7,000-ton
demagogues glibly cruisers with 6.1-in. guns.
So much is known, but there
ism, though less articulate than geous men and women capable has been much secret building. Is there any indication that the last war's emotions, remain of leading exhausted mankind we shall elect finer, moro tar- undiminished...
Into the way of peaco
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