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NE of the young Germans sent identical with the German
ONE
and
How false over to the Public Schools Italian dictatorships.
State," which means themselves (as Athletic-meeting in London made an Louis XIV had the honesty to admit the instructive 'remark to a Pressman. when he said jauntily "I am
State”), Stalin' urges Russians- to do their best for themselves.
Apparently the Pressman had men- tioned a political topic. The young man replied smugly: "It is not good. that politics should be spoken of by young boys of 17."
He does not tell them, as Goering did the hungry Germans: "Guns before butter!" He does not bid them, as Mussolini bids his cower- I call that remark instructive be- ing Italians: "Be ascetics, recon- cause in it we have, put crudely, the cile yourselves to a lower standard idea on which dictatorship is built. of living."
First, it is driven into the heads
He promises that the whole fruit of children, which makes nearly all of their labour shall be their own. of them prisoners to it for life. That He rejoices in the increase of their idea is "You must think as you are comforts and conveniences, told to think." A boy of 17 who says humbly that he must not talk about
By HAMILTON
FYFE
public affairs will almost certainly grow into a man prepared to take his opinions ready-made.
He will become a hero-worship- per. He will believe implicitly in the wisdom and power of the dictator from whom he takes his opinions. Nothing his idol does
until-- can be wrong...
He says:
"This is your country. It does not belong to a small class
Oh, yes, there is a limit to such idolatry. All the famous dictators in history have lost the confidence of their worshippers. Both the great Napoleon and his nephew called “the little" (who ruled France despotical- ly for 11 years in the middle of last century) were each hated and abused who take the cream off the milk and it is hard to se by the very people who had grovelled before them.
THE KING'S EMPIRE DAY BROADCAST.-H speaking to the Empire from Government House, W Empire link-up broadcast on Empire Day. (By Air
leave you the skim. "It can be made Destiny. that is can be shown at once by com- He is a Tor Diaz of Mexico had to fly for his trasting the speeches of Stalin with given more cre life and hide in miserable exile.
those of Hitler and Mussolini. While for his work at Sir Samuel Ho After the system of ancient Rome they demand allegiance to "the
forgotten by m he, in Hoare's ceased to be Republican and became whatever you like to make it and the
telegram to A a tyranny, very few of the dictator- value will be all yours.”
British Minist emperors died natural deaths.
influence" to i
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THERE is going on just now
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Despotism is, therefore, an un- healthy system for despots. It has bad effects, too, on all who submit to it, especially those who do so will- whether Anthony Eden is ingly.
THERE is on just now to
fall in with th
Since he was not in berlain becaus present circumstances the Necessary like the colour Prime Minister, or whether Cham- speeches have berlain is too valuable to be spared. titude that of The News-Chronicle" says Eden, for office.
Even if he h T is still sometimes asserted by "The Times" backs up Chamberlain.
very ignorant or dishonest peo- Except that anybody, would be better it would be ab ple that the system in Russia is than the Old Man with the Umbrella, he is the One S
IT
EAT
AT
Jimmy's Kitchen
INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING
Bringing Up Father
BY GOLLY-IT SEEMS TO ME
I HAD A DATE TODAY-COULD IT HAVE BEEN SOMEBODY
·ELSE? AND IF IT IS -- WHY SHOULD IT WORRY ME?AND COME TO THINK OF IT-- I WONDER IF I'M WORRYING?
WHERE IS SIR VON PLATTER? HE WAS TO BE HERE AT NINE THIS MORNING- HAS HE BEEN
IN TODAY?
NO-IT'S BEEN
PLEASANT AROUND HERE
ALL DAY-
I'LL GO TO HIS HOUSE-
IT'S A WASTE OF AIR
TO LET THAT GUY BREATHE-HEY-TAXI-
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