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MUST WE REWRITE
OUR
HISTORY
DID CHARLES
CHARLES 1., exccutad January 30, 300 years ago.
I. DIE
FOR DEMOCRACY?
by Esmo Wingfield-Stratford, D.Sc.
LEGEND has been allow- ed to grow up about King Charles the First that has to struck such deep roots as have become part of our com- mon stuck of tradition.
Everyone takes for gospel the story of the good fight of the patriots and Parliamentary heroes against the false despot whose head his people, or parliament, or both, length found themselves under the regrettable necessity of removing.
ht
The more closely the original sources are examined-so far as my (WI)
me-the tenches experience inure clearly will it be revealed that what we have been brought up to on ncept as the verdict of history King's Charles rests upon no his- torical foundations-whatever.
It is a tendentious travesty, that has grown up in, the course of with generations, being passed on,
pen additions, from
and ta pen mouth to mouth.
Thus, one of the most moving tragedies of all time has been vul- garised into the melodrama of the tyrant verzus the patriots.
For version.
The service besido King Charles's statue in Trafal- conducted gar Squaro by the Rev. W. V. Tunks..
-
How has this come about? such was nut the original
That myth is the most gigantic So long as the Stuarts reigned, the bluff that has ever been palmed nit White King was almost universally in the game of history.
martyr to arned. regarded as tyranny, with Oliver Cromwell
the villain.
05
of this The substantial truth estimate hardly the most envenom- ef of King Charles's detractors has dured ceny. with regard to his
private life.
Stalin chances a boomerang
"N Moscow, they are chuckling over a new Jewish story. Two Jewish bureaucrats from the Kremlin, according to this story, had called on the Chief Rabbi to ask his advice.
They were full of fears that Stalin's now. anti-Zlonist-line was going to develop into an old-fashioned Russian pogrom, masquerading as a Soviet purge.
"Don't worry too much," said the rabbi. "Just be- have as you do in a tram." And with that he sent them away. But neither of the bureaucrats could understand the oracle. So very apologetically, they returned to the rabbi and asked him to explain.
ត
and
"Now." Fakl the rabbl, "how you behave in a trom? You don't the stund in front and talk to
lriver. And you don't sland at where 1's back the
cold draughty. You don't put your head out of the window. You keep to the middle well down the gangway, Where it's cosy and where there's n crowl,"
SEFTON DELMER'S
NEWSMAP examines the Kremlin's new anti-Zionist attitudo
make it strong and powerful at the expense of the anti-Communist Moslem world, and to help Its ex- pansion over the largest possible ren, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
Their second objective la long- It is to see that the State term. of Israel comes under Communist control in order that it may form a inflitary and political base for the prosecution of the political war against the expitalist West
In furtherance of the, first objec- supply- tive, they make the Czechs arms, aircraft, and men.
NEW CRISIS
In furtherance of the second ob- ATC now trying to SHOULD wonder if there cetive, they
not
the Jews of Isract was not some truth in this story. blackmail
Communist Elde.. For the rabbi's advice to his people into joining the
Council the At the recent Security to keep out of the limelight is traditionat advice which Jewish meetings Mr Vyshaky had a num lenders have given in similar crises ber of private talk with the Israeli
delegater, throughout the ages.
And, believe me, there is a crisis for the Jews in Soviet Itussin today, ond, for that matter, throughout the Communist world. Stalin
himself
The Zionists asked that the ban
emigration be lifted and that, all Jews who want to
or
emigrate from Soviet-controlled Europe
which so.
to
has ordered the anti-Zionist line. Palestine should be allowed to He has ordered it in terms will
difficult make it very differentiate between Zionists and any ordinary Jew wishing to prac- Use the nationalist religion of his fathers.
to
do
Vyshinsky said that in the view
its. of the Kremlin Israel under present regime was a reactionary bourgeois State.
Soon after Vyshinsky got back to Ploscow, the anti-Zionist campaign. belts in earnest.
I have the text of a recent resa- lution adopted by the politburo of
Humanon
Moscow now.. hopes that Israel's Workers' Party, the
dependence on human limports from obediently following the Stalin line.
"Zionism of any colour," it says Communist Europe will force the the most nr- Jaraeli Government to capitulate. thus leaving open
For without fresh supplies of man- power-and the ghetto reservoir of Eastern Europe is the only source
up. they will not be able to keep
of their polley of colonial expansion. Zlonlsun DAY bourgeois reactionary They believe the denunciation will help the pro-Communists in the elections.
But we are asked to believe that the moment he stepped out of his bitrary Interpretation of what in private apartments Into the Cabinet,fact constitutes Zionism is a poll nationalist and reactionary Chamber of Throne Itoom, this tical same man pesumed the personally mavement of the Jewish bourgeoisie, of a perfidious lyrant, a shuler and which tries to isolate the Jewish n twicer who, if his death sentence working people in their struggle no against capitalism in the ranks of was a little irregular, had left
the unth-capitalist camp." other way of dealing with him.
Such accusations are launched in the teeth of all the evidence, which shows King Charles to have been a
of sensitive honour and almost excessive scrupulousness, one who could, and did, go willingly to and Rumania have
than swerve a Jewish emigration to Palestine. his deaths, rather
in Soviet Russin, Jewish offlein's hair's breadth from the troth he
his are afraid that if they avow thein- is friends, to had plighted
selves as practising Jews they will Church, and his people,
jobs-with
man
You could not ask for a more un ambiguous declaration of war than that, Morcover, it is being Imple- animented.
Hungary,
down
Soviet Russia, Poland.
shut
1 was easy, for our grandsires of be removed from their
to all the implications which the word the spacious Victorian days romanticise the issue into one be-"removal" has lu Russin,
tween n naughty monarch and -band-of-patriol-idealists..
2
The bitter experience of a crum- bling civilisation has at lenst enabled
of
TOW
BEVIN'S CUE
us to appreciate the real nature up Now this new anti-Zionist polley
the forces King Charles was ogninsi.
To grab State
was against these
There is no need to counter myth with myth, and deplet Charles an a flawless super- It was only after the prestige of canonised saint or
to man. He was a very human being, monarchy had slumped almost
It Georges with a full share of human frailty." zero under the first four that the need was felt for an his-
Indeed, he was more grievously handicappel than ordinary men, by toric
an impediment of speech that pre- vented him frcm articulating
Ave, word he was petuated itself not as a
background to the reigning cult of Parliamentary liberties,
For this a wholly different story had to be thought up, with the Par- liamentary chiefs playing the heroke parts, and the king degraded to that of principal tyrant.
Unfortunately, the most obvious
candidate for Parliamentary honours, the great John Pym, proved ton In- tractably inhuman to write up Into a sympathetic horo.
Gigantic bluff
over
and per-
In
that
own their
the
DEADLY FOES
TN my view this ant!-Zionist drive may boomerang on Stalin. The Jews in Eastern Europe have been his most loyal supportera there. disillusioned, they may prove dangerous and as obstinale foes Tito.
f
ДЕ
And just as the attempt to bully- Tilo is gradually driving Yugoslavia westwards, so may Stalin's anti- Zionist palley not only lose him the Israell elections but wreck his chances of gaining a pro-Communist
Red Sea.
Iraell and a submarine base on the
WIVES WARNED: "GIVE UP' AS SUICIDES FAIL DESPAIR and dejection at the con..
Soviet refusal to let
This news has reached the Foreign Omce from Moscow,
The two women-Mrs Lola Burke Antri
Henderson-were Mrs Rosa both employed at the Embassy with a number of the other wives. They shared a room in an annexe.
They each took an overdose fleeping draught. Fortunately, they were discovered in time. The Emi- bassy
both doctor brought them round again.
of
of the Kremlin is of considerable importance. It may have given un- face-saving happy Mr Bevin the (end possibly even A portfollo- saving) pretext for his fundamental the one item in
change of policy in the Middle East. There was not totalitarian technique of mass con- Moscow's anti-Zionist line brought the defeat of the pro- ditioning, of political gangsterdam, but of conspiratorial finance, of frame Communists in Israel's elections. Mr up, purge, third degree, liquidation, Bevin can say:- terror, and panle-inongering,
"This is what I was waiting for. ทน the geulus of Pym backed by
Israel is not going Communist after them join their British husbands running of Hamudan and their all. There is no danger of Israel have caused two of the Russian capitalist bosses had not applied coming a Soviet base in the Near wives to attempt suicide. with
East. Now we can recognise un netivity far beyond scope of such comparative bodgers Istact as the new bulwark of Wes-
tern Interests in the Middle East." as the author of Mein Kampf.
wealthy
And he owes it all to Stalin. At first sight. Moscow's new conspirators, who would have lodged all Stute control
unintelligible In the light of Enabling hande, and did not scruple, by the policy seems utterly equivalent of a modern Act, to cut off Parliament itself Soviet Russia's support of Zionist
to claims in Palestine Lefere from its constituents In ortler stammer, Lui what, it his conscious attention convert it into a permanent rubber United Nations Organisation
ukases. that the Kremlin's previous Fm for their own had relaxed, would have developed King Charles took his stand, not on neat of mass emigration to
Principle of divine right, but Promised Land;
The continued despatch of air- This had the
of cutting in discharge of his plain duty as n effect
craft and armaments by from
instinctive constitutlamil sovereign. those
to the him off
That stand he maintained human contacts that are more essen-
more Czechoslovak Government to any ather death in face of the even tial to princes than
her permission to live with her a Zlonist fighting forces in Palestine Soviet omeint named Olgin.to grant. fearful subsequent threat of
under arders from the Soviet mother in, the outskirts of Moscow.. kind of men, and caused him to
wall of military dictatorshin.
During the trial the Soviet pro- surround himself with a defensive reserve.
Just before he laid his head upon Government.
The leading role which Jews recutor alleged that the British "had" the block he mold:
13 Tike A Fer, okosl, Her refused Britis
The Embassy reply is that they visas to Britain only grant entry after the Russians have granted exit And vizos from the Soviet Union: this the Russians had not done.
Sir Maurice Peterson, the British. Ambassador, is now advising all the to divorce their Russian wives a British husbands.
into one.
The difculty had to be got by the practient Invention of the
It was only those brought Into "Stainless Patriot," John Hampden
virtuous imputed Intimate touch with him who pene- whose ineffably
hard-bitten thre personality had only the name to trated that barrier.
They. sinister and Connect it with the
ปร secretive millionaire politician who Roundhead officers who, were
Jailers, seldomi fatled to worship him bore it in reni fe.
to the point of idolatry,
And so, with the aid of the tem- pestuous special pleading of Burke, Macaulay, and John Richard Green, a legend was gradually constructed Charles that effectively stamped Stuart na "a tyrant, traitor, mur- derer, and public enemy to the good people of this nation."
NANCY
THERE'S BASHFUL BENNY
even
Clarendon has recorded his de- liberate judgment that Charles was the worthlest gentleman, the best friend, the best master, the best
the husband, the best father, and best Christian that the age in which ha lived produced."
We'll Take Ills Word for It
HELLO, BENNY--- HOW ABOUT HAVING LUNCH 'AT MY HOUSE
TODAY
any
the
encourage- the
the
the
Another Russion wife, Alexandra- Greenhall, has been sentenced two years loss of liberty," She was. found guilty of having bribed
to.
a
"It was for this that I am now man, and inany others play in the come here. If I would have gluen politburos and Communist Govern-
arbitrary way, for toments of Iron Curtain Europe. have had all laws chanped by the
Teap to al
power of the sword, I need not
here. And there to have come
fore I tell you, and I pray God it.
ISRAEL PLAN
be not laid to your charge, that THE Russians are pursuing in
Palestine a short-term and
"It In useless," be hid told them. am the martyr of the people." And it is an Martyr of the People long-term policy.
Their immediate objective is to through the British consul, "to ex- that we do him hontur on this, the tercentenary of his martyrdom. Reestablish the Zionist Slate of Israel, beet any change in the Soviet policy.
to concerning you." which they have recognized, memberi
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