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THE FAMOUS EX-DEAN READS MR CHURCHILL'S BOOK AND ASKS THE CONTROVERSIAL QUESTION-
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1948.
IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT
BY ERNEST THURTLE, M.P. EUROPEAN anity receives a boost by the
decision of the French Council of Ministors to support the creation of a European Assembly. Where does our Government stand on this matter? Perhaps Mr Bevin will now let us know. I think he should.
Fear, or the desire for self-prescrvation, may be behind this European getting together Idea. But what of that?
It was this selfsame motive which impelled primitive man to live in communities with his fellows.
And there is still strength in anity,
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DONALD BRUCE, the tall, lean-looking Labour
M.P. for North Portsmouth, takes his politics seriously, and it will not be his fault if he fails to become a figure at Westminster.
He has an aggressivo chin, which does not bolje his nature, Morcover, since he 's Parlin- mentary Private Secretary to Mr Ancurin Bevan,
he has an excellent hard-hitting politics.
NEED WE HAVE GONE
M
TO WAR IN 1939?
R CHURCHILL'S reputa-
tion ns
great War minister is secure. As
an historian he will rank as a worthy
of Gibbon.
Ruccessor
Carlyle and Macaulay. Clio is a Muse, as Trevelyan bas maintained.
History, til lately, has been part of our national erature, written by persons moving in the world of letters, some of whom did much to moull
of their time. the thought Now we are sometimes
trilet that history in a "selence" for specialists, "literature" in for the cotton
reader of books. Mr Churchill's books are literature, and all the bet- 1er histories for being 50.
What is not so certain is whether we were obliged to go to war in
1939.
by... Dr. W.R.INGE
Lastly.
Continental power,
pud we
were
than useful more
and beautiful At last they made to leave our doors open to foreign themselves. trade. Now. ዩ Aldous Huxley chemical discoveries which enabled says, our command of the sea has them to commit mutual suicide. been lost, and our doors are closed. We invite the world's hostility at the
"Our theologians often argue that the extinction of this noxious species
mentor for
A practising chartered accountant, now 30 years old, Bruce reckons to know a lot about figures, ant it is mainly an economic matters that he lays down the law.
NEVERTHELESS, it has not yat been firmly established that in- dustry and earnestness make success certain, otherwise I would prophens a good political future for Donald.
As it is I merely tender him my good wishes, knowing that if by chance this Bruce is defeated at the next election he will need no spider to spur him un to fresh effort.
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IR-COMMODORE
moment when we are not in a posi- is a strong proof of the providential A"
tim to defy it.
we
our
our
By repealing the corn laws ensure the ultimate ruin of agriculture. We allowed In this book, page 223, population to grow far beyond our there. Is
conversation between ability to grow food for our people. Our fate, If we are ever beaten Mr Churchill and Ribbentrop. "Bri- tain must give Germany a free hand in a great war, is a thing that does not bear thinking of. We are not in the east of Europe. She must have her living space for her in- in a position to net as the school-
Poland and
policeman of the master and INTELL creasing population.
must be ab-
Continent though we are very fond the Danzly corridor sorbed. White Russia and the of doing so. The birch and the Ukraine
All truncheon are not in our hands. indispensable. are that is asked of the British Common-
Atlantic Period wealth is not to interfere." To this Mr Churchill replied that the British Government would not agree to give ABOUT 400 years ago the dis America and the Germany a free hand
covery In easter circumnavigation of Africa began Europe. Ribbentrop replied, "In what we may call the Atlantic
period of history.
that case war is inevitable."
The first volume of Mr Church's great book, which ho cally "The Gathering Storm," deals with this question, and his defence of his
will not convhee everybody. The case seems quite clear. We Personally, as an ignorant onlooker, went to war because the Germans I have always thought that we mi
might have kept out of it, and if I am wished to recover lost territories and right, our intervention was a ter rible blunder, for though we won the war we are, as a Great Power, down and out, bankrupt
And
crippled
We have made our worst enemy supreme in two continents, and they are threatening us with a "cold war in every country from Malaya 10 Greece. Some fear that the war may not always be cold.
Curiously Honest
NAN my readers guess where the The British nation can be counted following quotation comes from?
to make further annexations in the east of Europe. Was that our bus- ness or was it not?
The attack on Poland was the last of a series of German aggressions, as soon as the Germans recovered their confidence and consciousness of strength, they wished to recover the provinces of which they had been We should have deprived in 1010. done the same..
Birch And Truncheon
T lain for his policy of "nppease- THE censures of Neville Chamber-
on to carry through to victory any meat" seem to me quite unreason- struggle that it once enters upon, no able. They come with particularly
a struggle matter how long such
bai grace from the Left Wing, for may last, or however great the sacri- if we were quite unprepared for fice that be necessary, or what-
may
war, that was partly. because the ever the means that have to be ent. Labour Party had persistently op-
and all this even though the pased every attempt to make milliary equipment at hand may be utterly hindequate which ready. compared with that of other n- tions."
US
We could not have helped the Czechs. The French did not want The words are from the Nazi bible, war; the Americans would not have "Mein Kampf," by Adolf Hitler. helped us: it is doubtful if our Do- Hitler's book should be read, if minions would have done so. Cham- possible, in the unexpurgated ed-berlain accepted the word of a man tion. Hitler was a shameless liar, who proved to be a liar. Could he
mu ព have done otherwise? but Mein Kompt seems to curiously honest book.
The rape of Bohemla was cer-
of
The nations bordering on the Atlantic became successively the leading Powers of the world.
sixteenth century belonged to Spain,
government of the universe."
HARVEY, Conservative M.P. for Maccles- feld, is, I suppose, the
possessor
in sacrifice to our tarian. gods. We no longer examine wil- nesses on the rack, or burn those who wish to go to a different church. War is clearly the next abomination to go, and may there not be even to human foolishness?
T
On the other hand we ато ге- minded that a few. time-honoured of the highest R.A.F, rank in the customs have already been abolish-Commons.
He is ed. We no longer eat our enemies
an industrious parliamen- or offer them
When he asks questions or makes speeches he seems to betray the suspicion of an air of command.
This must, I
suppose, be put down to the fact that, apart from his miswar service, he was for many years.
a regular Air Force officer.
Clarity and directness tend to Moral Debasement
stamp his contributions to debate. return to Mr Churchill's book, and it is. to his credit that most of There will always be many who these are of a vons.ructive charac-
did right to ler.
which was will think that we destroy a government perpetrating hideous atrocities. The moral debasement of one of the chief European nations was an infinitely sad spectacle.
Some have thought THE air commodore is knowledge- able about the Far East, where that we are seeing the putrefaction for some time he ran a commercint aviation company, and was adviser In the eighteenth century Europe to the Southern Chinese Air Forces. of western civilisation as a whole. was incontestably growing morc Sull only just on the wrong side humane. War especially was con- of 40, Harvey might well look for- That period has now come to an
ducted with some regard forward to office if his party got back end. Eastward, not westward as
chivalry. Now the worst exploits of to power. Bishop Berkeley said, the course of
As to this possibility, my readers' takes its way. The future Genghiz Khan and Tamerlane have belenks
guesses are as good as mine. to nations with u much been surpassed.
But the recrudescence of cruelty larger area.
It has been There are in fact only two Great has not been universal. Towers In the world, Russia and mainly confined to three nations, the United States. We
re. Germany, Spain and Russin. cognise that we are no longer in our The two last were engaged in civil A
which *War"
is always-cruel, --- atid As a people we may have a great those who have travelled in Ger- future,
and who just as Spain may have a many,
know what Jis have done for civilisation, we must reis means renouncing double dose of original sin. prent future in Latin America; but people
power-politics, cannot believe that they have a The Russians, too, are liked by power in politics.
In my opinion, we must reduce those who know them. The body cur swollen population to a much politic generates anti-toxins as well lower figure. This is not pessimismas
toxins. If we escapo a third All the great things have been done world war, Europe may yet recover. by small nations. Palestine is about as large as Wales, Attica, as
the eighteenth to France, the nineleenth to Great Britain.
"Cormer position.
renounce
must
English county. Elizabethan England was not yet even Great Britain.
knowing
In the
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NATURAL phenomenon ands
its-parallel-in-politics.
I refer to the similarity between one-time flourishing seaports left high and dry by tidal changes, and Liberal politicians, who once en- joyed great prospects, now cut off from hope of power by changed political currents.
Striking example of a victim of Clement Davies, such change is
highly gified,
respected, and popular leader of the Parliamentary Liberals,
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Great Patriot WE need never be ashamed of Far more capable than many The Italian cities of the Renais- going to war in a good, cause, Ministers, office has never yet been
that we had nothing toils, nor is it now likely to be. sance resembled the little Greek
The Germany of Kant, gain and everything to lose. States. Goethe and Schiller was cut up like event we have lost nearly every- ag-saw puzzle. The cult of thing our wealth, aur empire, and But whether we think Mr large numbers is vulgar and stupid. perhaps our freedom.
The Future
Churchill's policy right or wrong. our country has never known The great Duke truer patriot. Marlborough would be proud of his descendant. His defence of his polley will be studied all over the
one of the larger apes
He prided himself on being a dis- tainly inexcusable; but that country THE future is perhaps merelfully hidden from us. It may be that ciple of Machiavelli, but he lays had a pact with France, and after An historian on Venus may one day his cards on the table. Germany is the absorption of German Austria, write: "On a pinnet between UA to expand not on the west, but on
was much to be and Mars the east. The little Baltic States, for which there
country projected established, for several thousand then part of Russia, Russlatt Folari, said, the Czech
like a dangerous salient into the years, a completo ascendancy over and the Ukraine, are to be annexed. Kussin is to be pushed out of penta- heart of Germany. As for Poland, then a camp
the immediate cause of war, that "They used their power to deface sular Europe. not in "Mein country must always be at the mercy the surface of a picturesque
At Umes, though Kampf," litter indulged in still of either Germany or Russia or of ander wider imbitions at the expense of
together. A Russin. One war and one only was
unfor- inevitable, a war lo decide the old more
tunate chole quarrel between the Teuton and the for an Siny.
matum could not have been made.
:
Now Or Never
DAUSCHNING'S "Makers of Des
Both
acting
ulli-
In the lost;
Pal-
very
echtury truction" (1924) shows that merston made some farsighted Germans realised himself that it was now or never for Ger- popular
home by many.
"Russia is already the greatest cheerfully in-
in
In Europe.
sulting military power another 10 er 20 years there will no foreign coun- longer be any possibility left of re- try affer an- sisting a vast Asiatic wave of con- other. quest.
Bolshevism would
one
I n
those days we become the could get cover for a new aggassive natioi- away with it, alismı.
though Pal-
from
"The dangers threatening Russia in every fleld are mortal.
inerston's knight - errantry was
Germany, we may remember, ins generally con- no natural frontier in the east."
his Gunther, in
John
well-
ined to
Informed book, "Inside Europo" bluster,
(1036), says: "Friendship
Dut
England is essential to Hitler; no Our uncou
com-
with no!,
now we can~:
without tested aclive policy is possible
HIS English friendship or neutrality,
mend of the enmity to Soviet Rusala is inefface- seca was ac- able."
quiesced A In Captain Liddell Hort, In his con- on two un- versations with Gormán generals, written learns that Hitler actually allowed altions. We our expeditionary force to escape were to keep from Dunkirk because ho did not
t wish to defroy our country. This TVmay or may not be true.
con-
our army 100 mali to threaten any
exterminate other
Klebe.
spectos
worlil.
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TIME was at the formation of the Churchill Coalition, when it was expected that he would be offered a post, for he played quite a part of in
to bring down the Cham- helping berlain Government, But the call never come.
Right or wrong, it was a generous policy, worthy of a nation which has always believed that the moral law upplies to governments as well as to individuals.
Smaller men would have become embittered by such disappointment. Clem Davies has not.
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