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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1952,

Benedetto Croce poses the question:

Slav Imperialism Or Communism?

OMMUNISM finda

no stimulus in the active spiritual and moral life of man; it springs rather from the futile and childish longing for liberation from the toll and pain which are in- separable from life and without which indeed life itself would fade.

A thought-provoking document by the great Italian philosopher, who died only last month at the age of 86 Russin, in these matters at least the verb was always conjugated in the future.

feeling in commoș, and with. whom there is no possibility of mutual trust.

the

But through the shadows of this pessimism returns the vision of all those who are afflicted by This latter power, which like the same. ΒΟΥΤΟΝ, and by every power tends to be im- gathering lo ourselves this perintisile, could not certainly, brotherhood of grief our resolve stablished in Russia and bear- renounce a ready and efficacious resolve tenaciously to

The kind of political regime in the strife of politics and war, a conținuously strengd the in the name of Communism does means offered to her of raising heritage received from those who not abolish the state as Marx the banner of Communiam and have created, through the work

that which re laid down, but makes it stronger Marxlam, thereby bringing con- of centuries,

the only

only civilisation, a conceived pust, stronger even than ponents and sp weakening them.

and ал perpetual fulfilment Czar when the state

THREAT

enrichment of the individual and was not "totalitarian," or at least

which has been entrusted to us

are now living earth.

But this does not mean that and more absolute than any in fusion if not disunity to its op- tion:

permanent not to the degree reached today.

the Communist ideal has any the thing to do with the desire, as unde

under the for " Letter world," Wo say, a desire

La

nature and feature of bumun which expressed itself at all times in differing terms accord

the particular circume ing to stances of human action and progress.

Economic equally here be achieved and the difference tween the workers' salaries and those of the higher grades is very great. Strikes are fotbid- den, and the peasant is, in effect, tied to the land, and the worker to his factory.

it was every-

this

IT'S

➜Y such means Communism al- Btained a strength which it who which

was far from having before the two wars, when where already on the wane. It is now one of the greatest forces in the world. But in achieving degree of strength Communism hus been utterly tronstormed and has revealed the unreality of It has become simply its ideals. It "Siavism,"

1." .e. the mask of the

and the world Im- Slav threat, which overshadowed mediately after Russia's victory

Napoleon.

This desire we understand as a desire for a world essentially different from the world as we

DEBASED

it, for a ГАСС of mon différent from the race Wo know: is the myth of the "beyond," of the "other world." New philosophy, or art, re-

or

whleh became through these manifestations will be re long and being forgotten for

the As

means of a revived and rational

conscious of

ised Communism, its nim and nature.

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of Elysium, Eden, Paradise, the pass on morality worthy of "kingdom of the elect, or other materialistic and proletarian has over similar terms.

The life of the

It is this threat which, after be created.

ondsing Marx not only followed the spirit has been debased in all passing through numerous

of methods of religious dogma but its manifestations, even

In the course a Com- vicissitudes if

Because they are Scots, some added another religious myth, munism has failed to tear

and after almost disap- out century,

Lbourne,

of the new Soclulist peers hav“ that

of a

a Paradise lost and to be the hidden seeds from which

petitioned the Lord Lyon periods of time..ha regained,

has now Prime Minister of Aus-

arms. Among them is

Lord been revived, concentrated and him

coat of of primitive Com- The myth

Kirkwood: he, hus born, as they were born in the matured by the fall of the Czars tralia, is reported as saying

The procedure for obtaining munism. This primitive Commu- age termed primitive and savage,

arms

the bow of a ship for and of the in the course

mobility, not that he cannot afford a coat nism had been lost in

And yet by its negation and

arms is deelded according

bla.crest, an Ayrshire bull on of history, and its loss marked by its threats Communism does ens but inept, Idle and of arms. He is by no means whether your racial strain

and... a the left of his shield fantasticnt,

which surround the only peer.

English or Scottish or Irish. Clydesdale stallion on the other. by a gradual sequence.

positively to some extent them; of punish ments, by the three ages of

As it 17

is not able to rely on new in the form of by the advent of

English and Welsh people com Similarly Lord Douglas slave, the serf and the wage-

the Barloch, one-time Mayor which new generous enthusiasms,

For the College of Arms under the jurisdiction of earner. It was to be regained by cume rarely and are of little social revolution maintained by

er Herald. B peer College of Arms,

Battersea and Governor of Mal- hierarchies, inspired

fred only with in London charges a effect, it obligea backward me the desire for power and armed £160 for the grant of full

College In Queen Victoria ta, has obtained a coat of arms Street, London, and classes to yield to the

from Lord Lyon. So too hos with modern technology, necessity of the times.

armorial bearings-£55 for

The head of this establish- Lord Macpherson of Drumoch- As in Russia, so in the minds developments, of Com Other social

Communists who form large supporters and the remain- resulting from Communism are

Duke of Norfolk, He has 13 NONE, however, among the less valuable and less productive parties in other countries, nothing ing £105 for shield, crest ment-is the Earl Marshal, the

of the carlior remaltis

Com-and mantling. Nowadays heralds or great Powers has ever had a of good. Among these develop

officers-of-arms to Communist-ordered revolution;

peers borrow their assist him. nor in our time do the cases of ments are "class batred," which muntem, which was rational and when

20 is not spontaneously felt, but humanitarian; all that, is def

Before the war, the charg are enthralled many of them dispense with for a grant was £70 10s. (£15 territories Occupier states and rather injected into or arcused is the spell of Stav imperialism robes from clothing firms,

by her

classes by by which they.

156. extra if you had the grant armies as a result of war offer the proletarian

means of an easy alifence be- and which they communicate to coats of arms.

widened lo take irt your exceptions; for it is only in ap tween: the unhealthy feelings of others as the iniminert fate of

The late Viscount. Morley brothers or cousins). Now it Europe and the world,

MYTHOLOGY: (John Morley) was tho

first has gone up to £105. The col- shown lege is not a government de- LTHOUGH they continue to peer whose chleid was Commun→

it produced by propaganda, evident that the more insistently standeth in contempt thereof," public funds. iam and the doctrines of which allows ignorance to this creed is recited, the less it remarked one of the old heralda Marx, which Russian politicians continue and, what is more. invoke, servo her polley

the luck of is believed and the less it makes as he entered the pedigres of talna grant of arms automaticfety lamp in front of

Itself felt in science and culture, CAvenome it; instruments of propaganda. respect shown in the treat.

which in fact advance without it, such a case in his books.

wearied althought,

by the

pearance that Russia is Com-greed and envy; the OTC

munist, as everyone know of the importance everyone anyway, who had eyes these know also

replace-

ter.

Several

Socialist English peers have obtained grants from the College of Arms in London.

Lord Crook of Carshalton has a shepherd's crook in his shield and two in

Lord hts creat Quibell, a builder auf contrac- tor, has a masoned arch in his aims and a pair of dividers with, a trowel for creat;

Lord

formerly Calverles, A peer or a baronet can ob- George Muff, MP, has a miner'

two miner's picks for crest (his cally.

father was a miner) and a fleece in his shield (ho once a textile worker).

to see and cars to hear-and Elven to culture and the state ot. A recito the Marxist creed, it is blank. "He hath no arms and partment and is unassisted by

that

ment of culture by the

A German author who visited ment of those same proletarion the country

of its stentorian voice, years of the Bolshevik regime are useri by demagogues 15 was surprised not to see Com- human projectiles, as weapons now

mode being

Into munism put into

in the of their fanaticisin' and ambition. historiography-with effect

a different administration; on being told in

against evil, reply to every question

that

GREAT WARS of

Compof

Russia, humani- what hadn't been done then. THESE demagogues neither tarian and peace-loving, against would be. done later on," heknow nor love the people of the the capitalist world, a world of smilingly

remarked

masses as they were understood Inhuman usury, pitilessly longing and loved by artists; not Party for fresh war end

and bloodshed. member artists, because they are hesitate to attribute any deprived of this gift or lose it real belief in this new mythology when they assume that office, of light and darkness to

People nor students from the special of a critical nature, accustomed schools for proletarian art opened to analysing their own processes in Russia, which benefit art as of thought, but certain it is that

during the early classes which, as "the musses,st historiography is

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The new fortunes of Com- it. munism were determined not by This inspires painful thoughts its ideology and social strength, in anyone who does not much but by the great wars of the 20th lice living in an age n which which led to the des- spiritual grosaness and confusion century truction, or rather to the suicide between truth and falschood of a powerful, hard-working and abound; in which people speak

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Fees for a Scottish grant are much lower than in London; they total about £50.

But there is a catch in this. A Scottish grant is valid only for the person obtaining it und for his eldest son. An English grant carries over to all the male descendants of the persons obtaining it.

Thus a Scottish grant of arms has to be renewed in each generation at a cost of about

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ensures that heraldry is taken seriously in Scotland. It must be, for it 13 part of the law of the land and the Lord Lyon can prosecuto offenders who disregard his

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