1940-04-30 — Page 10

‘Couldn't keep my eye

on the ball to-day!”

Never mind, you can tell this whisky blindfold”

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1940.

Too Many

Scots?

To judge by our rulers, the Eng-

Napoleon

mispronounced some

lish are the most down-trodden na- French words to the end of his life. French- our- He said at St. Helena that tion in Europe. We may call selves the predominant partner in meri and 'Italians could never under- He no doubt these islands, but it is only by a rare stand one another. chance that we find an Englishman in counted himself French, and once ́ex- control of our affairs. The Scots will posed himself to one of the neatest He said hardly allow us a name; we are to be snubs recorded in history. "Britons." I protest that I am not a rudely to an Italian lady. "The Italian:: Briton. I do not paint myself blue, are all rascals;" to which she replied, and I never offered a human sacrifice "Non tutti, ma buona parte""not all,

but-." in my life.

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The Russian dynasty of Rurik, centuries, which reigned for several

This statement is easily proved. To take our Kings and Queens. The later Plantagenets may, I suppose, count as English, not Normans; but after them was Swedish. Among the Bolshevik came the Tudors (Welsh); the Stuarts leaders. Lenin and Chicherin were al- Russians. Trotsky, (Scotch); William III. (Dutch), and most the only

(Han-Zinoviev, Radek, Bela Kun, and .our present beloved dynasty

Kamenev were Jews: Djerzinsky was overian.).

Or take our Prime Ministers-this a Pole, Stalin a Georgian. Stalin has

is a more surprising list. Since 1850 we have had eight Scotsmen-Aber-

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-By-

THE VERY REV.

lishmen, Derby, John Russell, Asquith, W. R. INGE, D. D.

and Neville Chamberlain.

There is no keeping a Scotsman out, even in the Church of England. Three of our best archbishops-Tait, David-

have

from son, and Lang North of the Tweed, where there were no bishoprics for them.

come

"What did you think of the English,

Sandy?" said his friends after he

had returned from London. "I didna see much of them," said Sandy; "my business was all with the heads of de- partments."

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never concealed his contempt for the Russians.

Among prominent Germans, Nietzs- che, who is partly responsible for the cult of the "great blonde beast," was a Pole. He had a great contempt for the Germans, whom he ranked only just above

a

"cows, sheep, English- men and other democrats." Kant, the If Hitler wished to get rid of his great philosopher, was half Scottish. to Hitler is an Austrian, who has no af- Jews, he would have been wise import a sufficient number of Scots- fection or respect for the North Ger-

descent is unim-mans. "The last pacifist will be men: their Aryan ·

remarked once - an German," he peachable.

opinion which sounds odd to us.

Another remarkable instance is Is this predilection for non-natives' -I must not say aliens-peculiar to Barnadotte, one of Napoleon's mar- England? Far from it; it is almost the shals, who founded the present royal

Roman em-house of Sweden. rule everywhere. The perors after the first century were of all nationalities Spaniards. Illyrians, a Carthaginian-speaking North Afri- can, Septimius Severus; even an Arab, Philip; and a Syrian, Elagabalus.

I do not know where the family of came from; Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I but he was certainly not a Turk. have never seen a more typically

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Of the leaders of thought in philo-Nordic skull than is shown in his sophy, and religion, Zeno, the founder photographs. of Stoicism, was probably a Semite, St. Paul a Jew Plotinus an Egyptian, Augustine a North African,

There is no doubt that foreigners who settle in a strange country often It is curious how the great rell-distinguish themselves. The challenge gions have taken root most firmly out- is enough to call out all their abilities,

must origin, and we

add that emigrants side the country of their Christianity is the most prominent usually have some force of character example, for though it arose in Pales- to start with. The brilliant record of tine, it has ever since been the least the French Huguenots in England and Asiatic of the great religions. But other countries is a well-known ex- Buddhism is another instance. The ample; the Jews are an even more Brahmins were too strong for it in striking proof that persistent ham- India, but it made conquest of China, mering, if it stops short of extermina- Burma and Tibet.

tion. is a great stimulus to its vic-

The French might name Charlema-tims. gne, Napoleon and Victor Hugo as The Jews have been very successful their greatest men. But Charlemagne not only in commerce but in almost was a Boche, Victor Hugo, I think, every branch of science, literature was a Spaniard and Napoleon was an and art, except painting and sculpture, Italian. The Bonapartes, though they which the Semites have always mis- a trusted. Every nation gets the Jews lived in Corsica, were originally

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Bringing Up Father

IS THAT WRITE

ONG. THE BOATS ON

ITS WAY TO THE GRAND CITY OF MEMPHIS

BY GOLLY- {F THOSE GUYS ARE GOIN' TO TH' PLACES THEY'RE SINGIN' ABOUT THEY ARE ON QUITE A LONG CRUISE --

THE MISSISSIPPI MAKES ME SO POETI

CALIFORNIA

HERE I COME-

(GEE-ID LIKE TO BE: IN CAROLINA IN THE

MORNIN

I WANNA GO BACK TO TEXAS-

MÝ OLD KENTUCKY HOME

FAR AWAY

WISH I WAS IN

By George McManus

YONDER IN

JEW ORLEANS

· IN MY RINDIANA

HOME

TO GEORGIA -

TWO TICKETS

IOWA - IOWA-

WHERE THE TALL

SOUTH OF THE BOX

CORN

BROWS

HOME IN WYOMING

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