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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1938.

The China Mail

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even Dickens is being used in classrooms to besmirch capital- ist Britain Dotheboys Hallis given to children to raise a lump in the throat at the thought of the sufferings of

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ever wretched, because in great Great Britain "men must work and women must weep, for there's little to earn and many to keep.” As well might “Yes, we have no bananas" have been taken as proof positive of a per- the petual food shortage; or soldiers cheerful wail, “I don't wânt to die; I want to go home,” as an example of the British. Army's cowardice in war. Child- ren whose minds are thus steeped in falsehood can make little in telligent....contribution to their country in the future, let alone

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1938. to fraternal international un-

PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOL

derstanding. Side by side with Dickens should be the life of Lord Shaftesbury, who, even though capitalist, produced reforms which were a shining example to the whole world. Perhaps Lenin's One of the healthier principles reputation would suffer, but misguided idolatry never work- adopted by statesmen gathered ed to any individual's permanent in international conclave since good. the war has been that nations

The misuse of Dickens is all should not speak ill of each other the more mystifying since "Rus- in books and publications. Con-gians appear to outdo his com- ventions have been signed giv-patriots in worship at his shrine, ing undertakings to lessen dis- as do Germans at Shakespeare's. Only recently an excellent edition tortion of foreigners, and these of the novels was produced in have applied· particularly to Russia in the English language, complete with Phiz's drawings, school-books for the young. Time and prefaced with a well-known was when schoolchildren were Russian critic's foreword which, semi-consciously trained to be to some, is one of the most ex- lieve that people of nation Aquisite and understanding tri- butes that could possibly be ren- people and of Bdered to Dickens. Poets, compos- a go bad. The virtue or vice of the ers and novelists have not in, frequently acted as interpreters, foreigner depended solely upon

and therefore reconcilers, be his political alliance with, or op-

tween peoples. The Russian position to, the home country, writers of primers for schools big bad are apparently intent upon a re- Thus Russians were

versal of that process. English wolves to the British child until lovers of Dickens may be pardon- Anglo-French-Russian en-ed for seeing little but the hum- tente became a political fact and our of the Soviet twists,—— and changed the wolves overnight lovers of the fair name of Eng- land may feel little sense of in- into simple, God-fearing, musical justice, but, to those who hoped and altogether lovable peasants that post-war days would bring

-to.

were

the

abay nothing of their admir-other manners, the distortions of

steam-roller" ca

"capabilities propaganda-mongers in schools will come as a bitter disappoint- in war, Things seem to have ment. The clock is being set changed only slightly for the back. Schoolchildren · put better to-day, and indeed with blinkers, or given the wrong end become the present rush into noxious of the telescope, soon

schoolchildren in gas-masks. several

Charles Dickens wrote to save interna- the poorer children of a hundred tional falsehood has at some years ago from some of their miseries. The Soviet education- points grown more virulent. An

ists, like those of some other illustration comes out of Russia nations, seem bent upon adding itself with the revelation that to the children's misfortunes.

national propaganda important countries