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MR. WELLS'S FEAR OF FASCISM.

WARNING THAT BRITAIN

MAY HAVE IT. #

GENERAL STRIKE NOVEL

Mr. H. G. Wella has again sur- veyed the world, and found it far from good. In 1 new novel, "Meanwhile," published a few weeks ago, he discourres on an endless variety of subjects.

For one thing, he cuts himself off from future holidays in Italy by a violent attack on Mussolini and the Fascists, and ensures for himself the enmity of, supporters of Mr. Baldwin and his Adminis- tration by holding them up to ridicule and execration over the general strike and the coal strike. "Charlatan," "actor," "destroy er," "cannibal," these are some of the words that Mr. Wella puta in the mouth of one SignOT Vin- cinguerra, an anti-Fascist Italian, with regard to Signor Mussolini. "Castor-oil ends, with their loaded canes," is a phrase applied to the Fascists. Italy is described ng a "prison with punishments and tor- tures."

SATURDAY, AUGUST

LADY ASTOR AS TORY CRITIC

"FALSE ECONOMY” IN EDUCATION.

SOME HOME TRUTHS.

Speaking on July 26 on the sub- ject of education, Lady Astor gave the Conservative Party the most sovere castigation it has received for a long time at the hands of a Ministerialist. Laying the party with tears in her eyes) for a full across the knee, she spanked it twenty minutes, telling it home truths to the accompaniment of s resounding slipper, says a London

paper.

The Opposition were delighted, and with reason, for the attack was by no means a mere ebullition it was informed by sound sense, of tempor; from beginning to end courage and true sympathy,

"Sometimes," said Lady Astor at the very beginning, "I wonder If I am in the right Party; but I hope that all right-minded people feel that in all parties." It was a brief to her, she admitted. to have to perform this task. but duty was duty, and the Party Ile warns us, in a tone of alarm,might benefit by having a little that we may suffer some tyranny

rezent history recalled to its akin to Fascism, and that dis-

memory. tingulshud men of letters may be beaten almost to death for pro- testing against it, and claiming the right of free speech.

||

Here are same of Mr. Wells' phrases-put in the mouth of Philip Rylands-for members of the Government':--

Let members take their minds back to the Coalition Government. of 1918 and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher's Education Bill. with all its high hopes. Let them remember the other great plans of those days, and then let them remember how all had been wrecked by the Anti- Waste Party, which fought the "Some atavism like Winston;"

then Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd "An owl like Jix."

George), "not because of his war record, but because of his ad- "Baldwin a hit of a cazlowner vanced social programme." himself."

How well she herself recalled "Jix inciting the police to be those days of the triumph of the violent at the least provocation." anti-Wasters! To ask a question "As might be expected. Wins-about education or any other 30- ton has gone 'clean off his head. cial service was to be made to fel He hasn't been, as happy since he not so much like John the Baptist crawled on his belly and helped crying, in the wilderness as like to snipe in Sidney Street."

Ruth among the alien corn, with no Naomi to comfort and no Boaz to advise.

The General, Strike.

Much of the novel is concerned with the general strike of last Your, and his characters say things like these:-

"Cook goes on all the time like a musical-box that can't leave off: Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day. Twenty speeches a day and still at it in his sleep."

may

"Most have gone," cried her ladyship. "but their spirit goes

marching

of those anti-Wasters

on.'

For Reason, Not Reaction. "I want to warn the President or the Board of Education against the spirit which is working in our party-the spirit that wrecked it in 1918. It is getting too much

Minister to listen to reason the upper hand. I want the

and

"Whatever anyone c'ae think, Winston believes he is fight- ing a tremendous revolution and holding it down, fist and jaw.not to reaction. Frankly, what i want to know is: What is the He careers about staring, in-. active, gaping, crowded London, policy of the Board of Educa looking for barricades.

tion ?" I wish I could throw one up for him."

"Several of the Labour leaders, chaps of the Court suit and even- ing dresa tyfic, were running about London weeks and wees ago, pull- ing long faces and saying "The extremists are forcing our hands. We don't want the general strike. We're perfectly peaceful snobs on the make. We are, indeed. It's an attempt at revolution we ad- mit it. Do something, even if it only looks like something. These were practically their words.".

"They quote the case of Ply- mouth, my own constituency, where the school age has been raised." Lady Astor went on, warming to her subject. "But what a fight we had to get it at Plymouth: Mercifully, down there we have Conservatives who, belong to my section of the part but they had to fight the diehards tooth and nail.

"If the Ministry of Health waited upon the local authorities, do you think it would be reducing. infant mortality in the way it is "The people here about me, the doing? It is only succeeding be- wealthy Tory sort of people, the cause the head takes the lend. ' chaps in the clubs, the men and. "I don't feel that we are getting women in the boxes and stalls lead from the President of the restaurants and night clubs, the Board of Education. "I have no Ascot people, and the gentle jazdoubt he would like to give it, zers are not thinking of the rights but the trouble is he doesn't fight and wrongs of the miners and the hard enough. You have to care trade union at all, and of fair enormously-and play, and what's a straight deal you can get your way." with the men.....The ren just a pawn in their game of for- eign investment.....

are

"They have something larger and vaguer in their mind, this shrinkage of their credit as a class, this arrest in growth and vigour of their Empire, the Em- pire of their class because that is all it is... They have it now in their bones if not their intelli gences, in even the stupidest of them, that new and greater things are dawning upon the world.

fight-before

ing with enthusiasm about the Presently Lady Astor was talk-

Malcolm report (of a consultative ommittee) upon raising the school leaving age from 14 to 15, and ultimately to 16, and vas approv ing the view of the committee that. such a reform would have a highly beneficial effect, upon un- employment fact recently denied by Lord Eustace Percy".

The Higher Economy.

"How can we afford it?" was, "They

become puzzled and she admitted, the question upon frightened and quarrelsome at the which the reactionaries always bare thought of these new condi- successfully retreated. Her reply tions which threaten them-with was: How can we afford not to. extinction--or worse-with educa- afford it? How can we afford to tion. On no ternis will they allow 120,000 juvenile unemploy- learn. That is too herrible. So d to run' the streets of our cities? they go frantic. They bristle upare the only way of giving the "Such schools," she pleaded, to fight."

children of the very poor what we This is where Mr. Wells thinks the very rich can give to oura.” Fascism may come upon US. "Something rises in me when I "These people are tuclined for think of these things," she cried.

(27, 1927.

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"a tremendous scrap of some sort don't go far as to say that all maintaining the herol: plane for tion. Yet we spent £17,000,000 on starting the debate with a capable now, while they are still fairly people are born equal, but I do long there appeared to be a gonthe preliminary bombardment of analysis of the whole position. strong," because they dream that think it appealling not to try to eral agreement in the House in the Messines Ridge, and £22,000,- Reply was at the first left in the "somehow at the end of it the give them all a chance.

cluding the Ministerial benches 000 on the preliminary bombard-intelligent, but not very forceful, creeping rot, the loss f go, in all "Why can't the Conservative--that the heart-throb in the ment in the third. Battle of Ypres. hands of the Duchess of Atboll, they value and all that makes them Party urge the Government to speech made it memorable. Her "But what has that got to do who did her best to persuade Lady swagger people would be abolish keep the pledges the Prime Minis-ladyship was warmly praised for with education?" inquired Cap Astor that the Government are ed and made an end of. It would ter gave? After all, the Prime it immediately afterwards by Sir tain Arthur Evans, one of Lady really better than some of their be lost in the uproar, and at the Minister got in on a forward John Simon.

Astor's-hard-faces.

actions might lead to suppose. end they would find themselves

policy. But no one who has Sir John's speech was also

"Education," came the reply like Coming In later, Lord Eustace back on the top of things, strong studied and watched can say that one example in a very different a flash, "is the preliminary bomb- Percy assured the House that the and hearty again, without any the Board of Education has a for- style. We say, he observed, that ardment in the Battle of Life.”. Government are moving as fast, doubts, without a single doubt, ward policy now."

we cannot afford adequate educa-The day has been a good one as is safe or as the parents of the just as they used to be. All the In spite of the fact that Lady tion for the children of the na- for the Liberals, Mr. Percy Harris children deşire, world at the salute again."

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