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"Too many of our young men are ready to
swoon at sight of a gun!
I AM NOT A
WHAT
our
is happening to young men? Seeping through youth to-day is a strain of almost effeminate weakness, of weak-kneed vagueness of thought and purpose.
That is a hard and sweeping thing. to say-
"Yet you can see it clearly among the young men who ought logically to inherit the leadership of this land
भातव्य
NOT A FUNK!
CYRIL JAMES
SAYS
Britain's youth must stop lis tening to the twitterings of our human canaries who scream hy- sterically at the thought of de fending their country
These people have an outlook that makes a man feel sick”
You can discern it in their con versations their gushing chatter cares about is to keep out of war. about topics which once only inter That is constantly being asserted ested the boarding school girl at by Ministers and others. I feel that
it is a most dangerous thing to do.
afternoon tea.
-shocked by Lord Cecil's "early
torian bellicosity.”
Well, my Lord Ponsonby, if that is early Victorian bellicosity, I'll tell you where to find a few more early Victorians. 謹
I am one of them.
And, despite the ditherings of the young men who are currently said. to be "speaking for youth," I think you will find behind me most of the men who must do all the dirty work.
when war comes.
Oh, I know all about the horrors: In their writings, their puling In the first place it is a direct of poison gas, high explosive, germ- poems, their interests and hobbies, encouragement to disorderly Powers sprayed trenches and the other bogy even their clothes, you can see that to become more and more aggressive men which have scared our peace the garden of England is producing and to treat our remonstrances with at-almost-any-price brigade. at the moment a record crop of hu-
very scant respect.
I was too young to fight in the last man weeds.
But Lord Ponsonby said he was war.
It is a phase through which many nations have passed
Germany knew this degeneracy just after the World War. It need
ed the advent of a strong man to eradicate the evil.
And Adolf Hitler yes, I call him a strong man though I am neither Fascist nor Communist welded the youth of Germany into one indivi- sible group, imbued with one par-
posed
Mussolini has done the same thing in Italy.
THE
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
But I was old enough to over the death of someone very dear -to me.
was Someone who, though he never cut out to be a soldier, fought stubbornly for me and died hideous, agonising death--
I don't want to die like that.
But I'm not going to wave
a determined white flag every time Continental, deceived by the maun dering pronouncements of our states- men, bellows threats across the Channel.
The dictators are strong
But we are strong, too. Strong enough to say, change!
listen for
Mr. Lloyd George is one of the few elder statesmen who would not hestitate to put the bullies in their Froper place.
These dictators are on top," he said last week. They have not got any resources comparable with those of France, Russia and our- Iselves, but all the same they call
the tune.
"You say that if we stand up to
ALKING of entertaining (we asked me if I believed that there these dictators there will be war. weren't, but it doesn't mat- had really been found "evidence" to I tell you this if we don't stand ter), I suspect that I shine more as prove that Elizabeth had a baby up to them there will certan
I told him that I believed Elizabeth war. 12 guest than a host. As a guest"
was the sort of woman to have I flatter myself that I am nearly had several babies Which leads What has happened in Britain?
perfect. I talk when the others to the age-old question of bow re You may think it is easy for me We have seen the emergence of a hang fire, I pretend to listen when liable are our history books – Take
to write like this from a comfort- able armchair: group of bright boys who, while others talk. I am very careful to Nero, for instance. Popular his- tory, mentioning that he fiddled exerting an unguessed influence over
put all my spoons back. If the while. Rome burned, suggests to us But am not thinking only of that the thoughts and actions of men of their own age, have themselves host says "Will you have a liqueur?" that he was a cruel, callous man armchair of all the comforts which
in his my country allows me now. a mental spiritual and moral out-II always declare my abhorrence of But let us put ourselves look that makes a real man sick. liqueurs If he says "What liqueur place Here is a city in flames. What can we do? Nothing but weep or swear. We are not a trained fire
And in no direction is their moral will you have?" (the proper for-
ought to be uppermost in the mind
I am thinking of myself trench, gripping rifle, waiting decay more vividly revealed than in mula, which I use on those rare brigade. We are an emperor.tensely as dawn draws near for the their attitude to a problem whichcasions when I am host), say gives us a pain in the neck to watch whistle-call that will send me over of every man of fighting age to-day. cognac. If I see a name like ge the destruction of our beautiful city. the top to face 2 withering fire.
We sympathise with the agony of Afraid? Of course, I'm afraid, The problem of war.
and Co on the bottle, which
the crowd below our window. We Only a fool is not frightened by What is our country's great need? in several Hong Kong homes. I would console them. We have one that thought. A tearing away of sentimental blink-make a display of turning the poi-divine gift. We fiddle divinely. We
ers and realisatiethe truth that son on my palate, and, when
do
the will soothe them. They misunder But that doesn't mean that I'm
we are a Great
that our pos-host says How is it?" I always stand They go away and spread the going to sit still, talking about sessions are envied by other Powers, mack my lips and say "Ah. That report that we fiddled while Rome inevitability of h and that sooner or later we may be 's telling no he, and it pleases him burned We did, but it is not true and the innate kindness called upon to defend them!
He feels that he is a connoisseur that we did not care. There was no while my country is entertaining a connoisseur, and the fire insurance. We too lost propered and scorned. I've met quite a few of the young stuff does not seem to leave any ty. The obvious conclusion is that All around me are young men who scream hysterically when stain on the carpet. But I often history as taught us at school is a tuals who lisp that the British such a blunt proposition is put to wish I could do more hosting, just lost of boloney. So throw away pire has gone into retirement
those history books, children:
them
They are the creatures who reel at the sight of a rifle, who swoon before a bayonet, who wave, a lily instead of a Union Jack.
Where have they picked up this effeiminate rot?
to show them how.
History
Chap asked me if I knew any- thing about history. If I said yes,
I hate to differ from Arg but I think the correct pronouncia- tion is Knatchbull Hugessen.
There are 164,675 more readers Largely from study of the and failed to give him exact details of the Daily Express than there are
made by the statemen who he would probably ask for. I would eches
Fascist supposed to lead us.
Did you read the wise
Viscount Cecil of Chel the House of Lords
nembers
Mussolini's
repo
seem a fraud. If I said no, I would Party. Il Duce seem an ignoramus, and be untruth-having sleepless nig ful besides, because, although never remember the names the ces and dynasties, and
think I know a great deal of pf history, the
very rinch
said
thing this
Com
eading a book
Well, I'm not thinking abort tirement
At twenty-eight I'm just starting.
And to the old people who „bore. the heaviest crosses in the last war I say just this
There is one kind of
he peace
Anybody can have
n't want
And when
tain's youth
itterings
Scientists think the first man liv ed in Cali
The office blonde he lived in the garden Elizabeth He the British Foreign Secretary.
to the canaries to bring ing, honourable
Britain
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