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BY CEDRIC BELFRAGE, WHO REVISITED ENGLAND AFTER THREE YEARS AND HERE TELLS YOU WHAT HE SAW

ECENTLY I read a book called course, I entirely disagree with

Rule Dylin read a book called course,

the

British Empire," by an Englishman, Another paper tells me, on Robert Briffault, Everyone in authority of a Viscount Forbes, that America has been reading it. This "inherited wealth has

gone with Empire is an old and glorious heri- the wind. The British revolution tage of mine. I have come over to marches on. The Chancellor has take a look.

not shot, but shot up, the big es-

I left England three years ago. I tate owner and the nobility by tax- was simple enough then, and I still ing them out of existence." (The am now, to believe that human so- Viscount regrets the passing of the ciety in the machine age does not days of great landed estates, when necessarily have to be conducted like "an employee was never fired unless an autonomous lunatic asylum.

it was absolutely necessary.")

I watch A. village commo or pump suck the three-feet- with little axe across the con the hose, wat at the sound fully a hundre est. cottage.

I inspect th Hyde Park, th ches and shelte dant gravely co dug those tre wouldn't have with water. B

away with the wouldn't believe there."

But "The me about A. emphasised ti technical ad on the mat committee h technical questions."

I hardly need

E

I went to America via the Soviet Union and China, and in of beggars and prostitutes in the J. B. S. Haldan

I push my way through the army all three countries have been re- West End streets, and enter a "bot- who have studi assured, for in each the people tle party club." It is crammed with lem under had a measure of power: they knew that what they wanted people peeling off great rolls of notes Spain are inclu

were

could be had, and they willing to join together and fight for it.

In the interim England's ruling clique has crucified the people of Spain and Czechoslovakia on a cross of broken promises to save peace in our time, and dug up a lot of Hyde

Park, and erected a steel shelter for six persons on Clapham Common. I look about me in bewilderment, and I can only reflect how little I knew of insane asylums who only pre- Munich England knew.

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FTER America, where, despite the growing heat of the fight, even the Fuehrers still have to make a show of thinking in terms of rea- son, it is like stepping through Alice's looking-glass into a land of mad hatters, snarks and jabber- wocks. Alice never heard so many lunatic arguments nor saw so-many nightmare absurdities I have heard and seen these past two weeks.

as

Three posters confront me out- side the station:—

Chamberlain Needs You. Mussolini: "We Don't Want War." Ghost Wife's Sex Plea,

act

for guinea whisky and six-shilling course not. Pr thimblesful of caviare.

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cial committee and most instit and strong Bri the hands of hear that the Oxford Group are Lords and Fueh in Canada wearing kilts and I turn to the flight from reality goes on in Lon- "How can you o urging "moral rearmament." The port, Dalton is c don's theatres, with the Priestleys their lives while upholding Serious Drama, with invited to lend Bernard Shaw laughingly explain- the next paragr ing how misunderstood Franco is, have learned to and Queen Mary patronising Ivor continued imper Novello's same old show at Drury some papers." Lane, while No. 1 royalty democra- tically shouts "Oi!" to the Lambeth Walk. ("Yes, upon my word, I never saw any couple enjoy them-

10 this is Eng selves so much. We were nicely

democracy. placed in the pit and we could easily old technique see them and hear the happy laugh- through." There ter of the Queen.")

It is Covent Garden's opening (if there is, we night and

We are being str “Lady Dalrymple - Champneys, must know best. titian-haired patroness of scripted the lives numerous charities, wore a knee- to vote. He has high pair of kid ¡boots with a tea, He has a p wide crinoline dress caught up in the front by a bunch of gar- denias to show a frou-frou of petticoats."

any war, the be

So we can all and bottle-partyin knee-high kid bo millions out of t At a village A.R.P., meeting a A.R.P. ramps-an In the first paper I buy, Sir John bristling Colonel explains how to petticoats to "He Anderson tells me deep A.R.P. shel- pick up incendiary bombs inTM a saviour of capital ters are no good because only those shovel and dunk them in sand; who get into them will be protected. someone rises to mention that this Munich already la . I see the found I find a man in a West End club was tried out and the bomb ate Sketch" headline:- reading "Reynolds," and he says: clean through the shovel; the "You know, it's odd-they've been Colonel reddens and cries: ""They absolutely right about everything must have been using the wrong Jever, since September but, of kind of bomb!"

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