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FRIDAY

MARCH 98

WHAT IS A SNOB?

Sir A Quiller-Couch on Thackeray.

ANIMAL MEMORIAL.

Sarcastic Criticism Of Scheme.

As the 13th Conference of the Sir Arthur Quillar-Couch, lec- Many people says a Home Communist Party, recently held turing at Cambridge recently on paper, are regarding with con- in Moscow, Zinovief. Chairman Thackeray, said the denial of siderable astonishment the in of the Third International, made any authoritative biography aftention of the R. 5. P. C. A. to a long speech, which occupied Thackeray-a clean-living Eng-spend £2,000 on the erection of a two pages of the Pravda. This is lish gentleman who might memorial for cenotaph, as it has the first time that a speech on the have walked up to the Recording been called) to the birds, beasts foreign polley of the Communist Angel and claimed his dossier and fishes that died in the ser- Party and of the Executive of the without a blush-had let in a rice of the Empire during the Third International has appeared flood of spurious reminiscences, war.

jin detail in the Soviet Press. anecdotes, sayings he most likely The point of view of the critics never uttered, or at least never that the whole thing savours The speech was divided into uttered with intent to give pain. of sentimentalism and that so two parts, the first dealing with questions of Soviet foreign policy If they wished to envisageļlarge a sum as £2,000 could be and the second with the affairs of Thackeray in the days of assured employed much more profitably the Communist International. triumph, they must understand in other directions. Zinoviaff devoted a considerable him as a desolated man, It

A responsible authority has

twen-

partion of the first part of the would seem that the vary anguish made the following comments speech to relations with Great of the hearth drove that soul, so Britain.

domestic by fastinct, into the **This decision to erect aD waste of clubland. To under-animals cenotaph at Hyde Park "What will MacDonald's Castand his work they must under-corner is an admirable example binet represent from the point of stand just what kind of a man of the lengths to which some view of the development of the he was in his up-bringing and people are prepared to go. If a International Labour movement the way of bis early frendships few pounds were asked for on be and the international revolutat Cambridge. Whas it was half of research into animal dis-i PRICE-LIST.Hion?" Zinovie asked. "With added that his gift for nursery eases the money might not be regard to the top strata" and folly was expended on a widowed forthcoming, although the bene petty Parliamentary politicians and desolate home-on a home fits of research work are incal "Ia said, it is of no great import-from which his heart drove him calable. When it is suggested, ance. But with regard to the to fee, no matter how ambitious-however, that money is needed mass Labour movement it will be ly be rebuilt and adorned it, to for a memorial of this type. an event of the utmost import scribble his novels on club paper £2,000 is quickly available. ance. You all remember how, or in hotel-they might get the Second Congress of the Com-little closer to understanding his

"In my opinion, the Erezing munist International. Lenin ad- vised the young British Com-yad heart.

generous but bitter and always Standard was justified in asking

why mosquitos which were killed) munis: Party to support the

to prevent malaria have been Menshevik British Labour No one who would understand forgotten.. It is frankly amaz- Party, to vote for its candidates/Thackery could afford to forgetting to find

the and help it to come into power st he was of Anglo-Indian stock. Inftieth-century, that there are the earliest opportunity. You re any odd angle of this capital yet people who feel it necessary to Imember, too, how frankly Lenin most insular isle the isolation of erect a memorial to the goldfishes axplained there is no need to the retired Anglo-Indian was that died under gas tests. What make a secret of the fact) that horrible and fatal. Compared must be the feelings of parents we should support the British with it the sorrows of a British who lost their only son in the war Labour Party, MacDonald's child "sent home" were tragically to reflect, on a sad anniversary, party, in the same way as the insignificant. Anglo-Indians in that a memorial has been erected rope supports the man who retirement endlessly talked poli-to animals unknown even by bangs himself. He said that the tics which had no basis save on name?: sooner they came to power the that of a service population, not better, because their failure discoverable hereabouts: they! would become evident, and the shot in anecdote legendary or un-individual with an affection for a illusions of British Labour be familiar animals, and they were pet has a perfect right to give it dispelled all the sooner, and the all quite certain that, if the Gov. private burial place but this! road cleared for the proletarian erament would suppress agitators, memorial in a public place to a revolution.

it must do something for Reggie lot of birds, beasts, and fishes is for Phil Yet withal they were so Jabsurd, and a waste of money. "That moment is now approach-noble, so simple in diguity.

I know veterinary surgeons who ing. British Labour, as a whole.

are sickened daily by requests to interprets MacDonald's access) Far astray from any path of attend to pet dogs, whose owners to power, not as a mere Parlia-progress as they might think him, hope they will not safer way mentary change of Government, insane as they might deem bis pain, and offer to pay for night but as the advent to power of the demand to rule; grandiloquent his and day nomes and all sorts of working class, of the toilers. The quotions from Kipling, or domes-fother attentions. This goldûsh average British worker looks tie his interest in his nephews, memoriat is quite in keeping with upon this as the historical re-the Anglo-Indian had that key of such curious conduct." reage of Labour: he believes that, salvation-loyalty. He was for

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"It seems to me that a private

with the advent of Laboür, un- England; and for that simple R. $. P. C. A. ATTITUDE, employment will cease, and pre-cause he (the lecturer) supposed When Captain E. C. Fairholme ssure will be bruught to bear on no men or women that had never chief secretary to the R.S.P.CA. the rich. Such a point of view is loved and suffered on earth bad was asked about the protests that dictated by class instinct. This suffered more than those who lie have been made he replied:-- comrades is a fact of the greatest now under the baddied gravel. significance."

stones of Calcutta.

The money that is being spent was subscribed for a specific "LABOUR ARISTOCRACY." Those who accused Thackeray purpose, and therefore it cannot

of being a snob (even under his be used for

any other. We After discussing the history of own definition) should in fairness were urged by a great many the development of the British lay their account that he came people to start such 2 Labour movement and the "Bri-of people who, comanding many fund, and the collection Was tish Labour aristocracy," Zino- servants, supported the English definitely for the memorial. A vieff went on:

tradition of rule and dominance in memorial of a similar type was

"MacDonald is a typical re- a foreign land. That he believed erected in South Africa after the presentative of the upper strata to explain Thackeray in greater Boer war, and we consider such of the Labour class, that is to measure than he bad generally mammorial here would be a say, of the Labour aristocracy,! been explained or understood. lasting missionary on behalf of Nesertheless, his advent to power Thackeray, a social delineator or animals I think that to have the in a country like England is anothing, never quite understood memorial at Hyde Park corner, event of world-wide historical the roots of English life, or of the where we propose to put it. classes he chose to depict. The would be to provide a splendid importance. This is not in Esthonia, or in Bulgaria, or even melancholy which ran through reminder of what we owe to the Germany: it is in Great Britain, all his writings-the melancholy animals. whose furgeoisie actually holds of Ecclesiastes, vanity of vanities, one-sixth of the universe under all is vanity was drawn its sway. The importance of this origin from the weary shore of event is not diminished by the the Gange and brought in the fact that, for the time being, the child's blood to them, over the Labour Government will become sea

of succes.

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by

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Captain Fairholme was asked whether the memorial was include birds animals, and fishes.

net

"It will be a general memorial" The replied," to the animal's killed in the war. As a matter of fact, farce, that MacDonald will

goldfishes were used during the certainly grove on all fours)

war for testing the water in before the opulent English) xurgeoisie. Of course, the latter ed in Germany which could not before those helmets were re realized that a moment had arriv-which gas helmets were washed is playing its own political game be regarded otherwise than as a issued." and prompting MacDonald, to assume power, in the hope that moment for a revolution which When Lady Tumb was asked the sooner he does so, the more would have a considerable chance for her opinion she replied that We, the Exla memorial was a good idea, but surely he will be gobbled Pecutive, are accused by some of she would prefer to see the Nevertheless. when so powerful

baving fired the date of the Gormoney devoted to someting more and influentail a Bourgensie hands over the power to Labour, it may this decision was left by us to the "I should like to see &

man revolution, but I assert that likely to benefit living animals. be assumed that is not done German Communist Party. merely for the pleasure of making

-model dogs home, for instance. an "experiment." That is why

The next point is the events in We have many dogs home, but the advent of Ramsay Mac-Saxony, and this will bring us to none so good as the model ones Donald to power marks a most the root of the dissensions within of America and Australia. It is important phase in the interns-the German Party, a Walways better to work for the tional Labour movement, a great advocated the entry of members living than for the dead, and we advance towards the liberation of of the (Saron) Communist Party ought to do all we can for dumb the British Labour class, and a into the Saxon. Govemment in friends.“ mighty atride forward on the road order to use it as jumping-aff towards the international revolu-ground and organise the struggle. tion."

for power. We expected that the ATTACK ON WOMEN TYPISTS.

A bitter attack"on" women The second and greater part Communist group in the Saxon of the speech was devoted

and Thuringian Governments typists was made by Judge Parfitt would insist on the immediate at Clerkenwall County Court re- to the policy. of the Communist International. Zin srming of 350,000 to 60,000 procently Complaining that the letarians, and so attack on the "really important words were ovieff dwelt ín detail on the activities of that body in con- Bavarian Fascisti Our German omitted from typed copy of a nexion with the situation in Comrades had persuaded us that letter handed to him, he added Germany. Speaking of what such a manoeuvre had a chance I have rarely had a typewritten happened in that country last of succ The mistake document in which there is not s was made by Radek. It was he blunder. “It is generally said to autumn, he said

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