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volutionary that ever lived. Thay Phone 27778/9 man was Lenin.
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FRANCIS MCCULLAGH
Capt. McCullagh
CAPT. Francis McCullagh, Irish
Journalist, is one of the most famous Bying war correspond- entr
Always on the spot when up- heavals break out, he was special correspondent for the New York Herald
the during
Russo- Japanese War:
New York Erening Past correspondent dur- ing the Portuguese Revolution 1810, when King Manoel abdicated, at Anadir; at Tripoli; in the Bilkan War (a which ho was captured).
After serving in the World War, he went to Russia. Was captured by the Bolsheviks while retreating with Kolchak's army. "After release, went Moscow
ngain in 1922 but was CX- pelled for his reports of the triuk of Mer. Ciepłuk.
Spain Next!
Lenin's Prophecy
Trained Bolshevik agitators have Inlo pouring
Poxin siner Fabrimary tart, nul one of them stated Cart spring that, on a certain date in the minoth of July, Heft would be fer lete in Spain. He even gave the
net date. General Fennen was right in drearing war on Hell, before It declared war on him.
Kari Radek, use of the leading Bof- jele viles, told me onen at dommer in the British Fantasy in Morcow that Spain would be the first country in
Burone to no Elid I laughed at bis
Justification
For Rising
Let me pause here to remark that the idea of the Popular Front, which Admittedly came from Moscow, proves that there lives to-day in the Kremlin a revolutionary chief who is far abler, subiler and more dangerous than his predecessor, the real revolu- tlonnry chief who lies embalmed in the Red Square.
It is an filca of genius, for iL en- abies
small united ATOUD of Bolsheviks to dominate a large, dis- united body of. Socialist, Radleats, Tiberals, Nationalists. Separatists,
ה
and Trade Unionists, and finally to freal them with utter contempt. Capital Seized
Megally
To relum to the illegal seizure of the Capital bý armed Reds. The The circumstances in which they flabby as the army of Kerensky. 1 Union Mar Espanola was not so struck have not been made clear by had decided beforehand on what to do the military leaders, in the first place
because none of them has shown the in case the Reds seized power. It had Journalistle aptitude of the Reds; and concocted a very good plot.
Now, of Conservative plots in the in the second place because all the Iberian Peninsula I happen to know accounts we have had so
for of the
num-
origins of the war, have come from something for about a quarter of a Madrid,
brar ent.
of century art I was acquainted with traces Madrilenian mendacity. Even honest some of the, Portuguese monarchists and importal correspondents have Manoel to his throne. I went
who were trying to restore King been unconselously influenced by the ber of times to Spain and. Portugal atmosphere of Madrid.
in order to chronicle their counter- Everything hinged on the fact that revolution and to share in their ex- the Spanish Reds never honestly pected triumph. accepted the Republic. They wanted I spent weeks in Tuy on the Portu- to make it a stepping-stone to a Soviet puese frontier, waiting for their Aictatorship; and now they have gol column to march. I spent weeks in their dictatorship, based on the Vigo waiting for their arms to land. bayonets of the Red militia, which is spent # long, dreary time Bolshevist
ΣΕ man.
President Mondariz: 1 was In Monterey; in Asana may sign decrees and perform Lisbon; in Oporto, in Belgium, where other fetal anties, but power rests they had bought arts and a chip. with the Reds.
but failed to get the arms into the
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Even in the middle of July the Reds Chip owing to the talkativeness of a eontrolled the Cabinet of Senor Plotter, whose indiscretions were too Catares Quiroga, out this fast led to much even for the friendly Belgian the disturbances that broke out all authorities; in Parls, that home of all over the country about that time, By tollers, where loose-tongued Portu July 16, those disturbances had be- quese Royalists also managed to mesi Pons so serious that Senor Casares Things Quicoya redrned,
But this Spanish plot was alto- whereupon the President summoned the Speaker of gether different. To obtain almost the Cortes, Sonur Martinez Barrio, to
aellos Poulianemus
Inang forin
-Cabinet of
different points was indeed a feat. moderate
Once again take off my hat to the Idelos.
n
Republienat
Hurt this Cabinet renaised," the
But the reader must not think that Army would have ben satisfied, be- this was exclusively an army malter, e it included om man whom they on the rebels there are
Mure
last, Senor Sanchez Roman, civilians than saldiers. Peetleally who had cbjected to the action all Spain, save Catalonia, is on the of the thres Quiroga Cabinet with gide of revolt, the Communist and had refused to
Iberals, Sorkallets even.
intelligentia, prophecy, or rather, at Lenin's plign the Frente Papular part before in cry proves the the the
The Red Terror was anfooned, but wore than that Terror in the even of
the farela bervers who, hated Holbevism and wanted moderation to provali was the charm-llite navalyity
which
11:0 with
White Huskurs allowed themselves to be butchered.
A very large proportion of ther
thems were militang men in the prime of Virus mind, magnificent speel mame play siendly, yet, a - if hypoalized, they let all arts of werdy Balchevil wastrels cut their thrants without any effort at residenen. Even the Lettis and Tartar executioners expressed contempt for them. One sympathetic
Amrita diplomatist could not re- frain from recording in print his utter and unmitigated disgust. The Spaniardia
Hit Back
phecy, for Rudek was only repeating a fajno sestener uttered by Lenin, Spain was is safe from Bolsheviant for believed, that un-Catholic n ultra-Calfolie Ireland.
But he was right. He had seen the secret reports that came from Spain in the Kremlin, and he had seen the
remis-vovaceties of revolution whe had actually been in Spain.
Latur on became anes of the intense and silent activity of the Russion Bolsheviks in the beina Peninsula, red nose that I feŋl back: that inferunt activity in the sight of present happenings, I shutter, or
em to im is the out, in.... d fatigable activty ed death bristles eating away the timbers supporting The roof of an ancient building.
J also see ele ly nw the cala
ordinary influenc
that thos Ruviten prokomory of resoludian bod their Spainsh pupils, Their extre and flendish cruelty Rem. The burning of churches and mot deeps
Russian, Russian also i habl
their the bodies of dead of exhuming nuns from солен cemeteries, a habit which is incomprehensible to Western Christians, for the Catholic Church does not claim, as the Orthodox Itussians do, that the badjes of all saints are incorruptible,
Contrented by the same Red Fer ror. fr
same class of Spaniards exhibited no symptoms of hypnotism Si trick out their hands for the hand- or paralysis or fear. They did not
Exhaus-cuffs or their throats for the knife, They made no appeal to foreign tive investigations are known to nations: If was their encmiles
who have been instituted by the health led to France for bombers and polon gas. They depended on God (authorities, but the problem is one
in Heaven and, su
far as this cartlų was cancerned, themselves stone Which, for a variety of reasons, They asked nobody for money. Jeannot be solved quickly. Cer-They drew to their plans, and very Bond plans- they were. They kept tain preliminary conclusions have her own counsel.
And when they Jalready been reached, and the saw that the Reds, were on the point
deductions therefrom are being truck hard, struck quickly, and ever.
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of establishing a Red Soviet, they
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More power to them! Hats off เ the Dons!
hypnotised by the magic of that word Republie, and misled by the cloquent basurances of novelists and professors -- who were used by the Reds to deceive the people and who are ent cast aside (such of them is survive) He empty Bladders,
moment indeed they had been
A Republic came into existence.
irations may be expected. SHud They Waited far as making dysentery a notifi-
To prevent the ruin of all the children, and to prevent the establish ment in Spain of a Soviet Republic, the Spanish Christians struck.
Were they wrong in striking?. Should they have waited for, say, Mr. George Lansbury, to have given the word? Then they would have waited for
the last elections.
Fas a
Ret Resciution
But the Marxista smashed Cabinet immediately.
this whereupon
youse "nobody knows how far Communist rot has gure in Spain. If only Catalonin and Die Asturias and a few of the large cities are affected. all will be welt. Spain will save Burope from Belshevism as he saved Eurobe frma Irkun. The Den will be the matador destined to an off the
Senor Azsan rec:Heil the Casares mad bull of Muscovy. Quiroga Cabinet, thus acline icon Refused to Career** stitutionally, for the Communists had no right to everride his prerogative. Before Force
The composition of the new
Cabinet sleased the Bolsheviks so much titat Louis Bertrand, a French Acadern:- determined to support it by cian and a great authority on Spanish. armed force, and at midnight on history, my very truly in one of his Hurday, July 18, armed patrols of books that in history there is no such al heel book change of the streets thing as an irresistible movement. and of the whole city. They searched that a strong, determined nan cas evrey posee-by, and the police alma
lock the road to revolution, ümit etie
I never conquered till he believes that he is conquered,
ely appeared. 'This was nothing less than a Xed Union aitar Espanola were quite no example is more comforting than Recution, and the members of the Speaking of Philip II, he adds that
Justified in firing from the roof-taps his, or more efficacious against the those armed intruders who had, depressing suggestions of pessimism without any authority, made them- and of historic
elves masters of the city.
determinian, and argint that political mystician which
It was the Reds, therefore,
began the Revolution, and
who
down like a coward before not lie
the are
accomplished fact or the simple appearanes of Whites.
fover," Which brings me back to the posi But, thanks to the expert advice tion from which I started, that the they received from their Moscow Spaniards did not follow the mystic- friends, the specialists in revolution, isme politique of the Slay, did not the Spanish Reds ceted with more kneel like cowards before the arcem. cumming than even their master, plished fact or the simple appearance. Lenin, Vladimir flych went full tilt of force, but struck back at once. presinst the Government; his Spanish The Spanish Christians will save disciples use the Government as a not only themselves. They will cove shield. rourequently they are. Europe again. They will save Chris- Loyalists, cad their opponents are tendom. Hats off to the Durs! More
power to them!
Rebels.
AMATEUR ACTING
Second Article
portant point is
Words in Season
The only sure guide to good pro- nunciation is that it should be free from all locallums and affections. Nellier the "West End" nor the "Oxford" accent is good English, any more than Cockney or Lancashire accents are. It has been said that the best King's English is spoken by the King himself, and most people who have heard the King speaking over the radio will be inclined to agree.
biggest handicaps which inves- tigators face in enquiries of this kind is that by the time the tests from suspected sources are com- plete, the milk, water or food which may have become con- taminated has already passed into circulation. It is quite possible, of course, that the disease may One weak President succeedled on- AFTER breathing, the most im- enunciation, other weak President. The only have been transmitted by a car-
to the Beginner thing that remained strong was the which brings all the vocal organs into rior who is himself unaffected. underground sapping whereby the play. If you open your mouth wide without moving the Red mean!
By GERARD FAY to overthrow the Connd say "ah" The authorities have gathered destitution. Finally.there came a Prestongue or lips, you get an Indeter
minate sound which in no way can! ....... dent who resembled Kerensky, more, be made to suggest a tailed data în regard to every case
a word. Only 1 so far reporléd, and in the near than any of his predecessors. He was when that sound has been modified out of the throat. The shape of the Senor Azana, theoretician, idealogue by bringing the teeth, tongue, and lips mouth Is such that it acts as an fature a preliminary oficial state-rator. Behind him ston Lurg
into action can it become a word. "expansion chamber" for the sounds The most desirable acceal for stage ment on the result of the inves- Caballero, the Spanish Lenin.
produced by the vocal organs, giving This process is so natural and so rapid that it is impossible, without them the strength and resonance purposes what is rather vaguely which will curry them over the dis-known na "Standard English," and going into considerable detall. to describe exactly what happens to seat in the auditorium.
tance from the stage to the furthest od exponents of this type of speech, who will serve as models to amateurs, able disease is concerned, it is Fuelve Months
sounds when they are being convert-
are such actors as Charles Loughton, understood that there are some
Resonance in speech must be de- Flora Robson, Cedric Hardwicke, and Had the While Spaniards walted ed into speech. The best way to difficulties which would have to be is mths more, their army would study the mechanics of diction is veloped if the voice is to be effective, Robert Donat, to mention only a few, have been demoralised, their officers to get hold of a good book on elocu- and here again the clocution book will overcome, but there seems no rea~ | retired, disarmed, isolated,
Apart from super-sophistication be useful in giving exercises. It and other annoying poses, the Engilsh themtion in which detalled description be
of the construction of the mouth and curious bellef” amongst son why compulsory pasteurisa- relves helple tion of all the Colony's milk, sup the fleers and every
Had they walked twelve month, vocal organs will be found. It is amateurs that the time spent in re-spoken by some of the B.B.C. an- Christian not advisable to take too much notice dearsals and the actuat publie per-nouncers may be accepted as a good plies should not be enforced. Teater in Spain and every enemy of of clocutionary books on the subject formance of the play is sufficient to standard. The meat important thing These two points will, with Bolsitevism from Bilbao to Algeciras of dramatic Interpretation, for their give practice in the technique of net-to remember in nequiring good stage accent is that the pronunciation must be orbed until it becomca would have been slaughtered as the technique is more applicable to the ing. This is quite absurd. others, no doubt receive the early White Russians were slaughtered. concert platform than the stage.
All good actors practise movement involuntary, for mere Initation, of attention of the Government. But a for worse thing would have Be careful of over-cnunciation, and dietion apart entirely from re good models cannot produce
happened. The demoralisation of the which may be caused by a too falth-hearsal, although the legitimate prensant form of diction. Steps will also, we have reason to youth of Spain would inve gone too full following of the old tag "take sluge has, in the Just few decades. The combination of soft lights," believe, be taken to pursue fur-far for cure. How far it has actually care of the consonants and the vowels fallen for behind the music-hall and comfortable seals, and a high tern- ther enquiries on the possibility one can be learned from Barcelona, will take care of themselves." If the variety theatre in this respect. perature produces in an audience a where the most frightful butcheries words of a sentence are chopped up When you think of the hours of distressing tendency to lapse into un- of Infection by carriers, as well as were perpetrated by boys and girls and the syllables over-emphasised practice devoted to the perfection of consciousness, and keeping the
the speech becomes stilted and vaudeville acts, or the learning of a spectators demoralisation of children is
of an actor. If the voice complex problem. The public feature of the Red atrocities through-to be slurred in order to gain in to study by acties become significant. comes in a steady drone, the anesthe- may therefore rest assured that out Spain.
naturalness--for instance, the word Since amateurs generally make only the effect will be heightened instead the whole matter is being explar- Some time back Comrade Largo "certain" in correctly pronounced spasmodic appearutices, practice is of lessened, and it is therefore neces-
Caballero established in Spain a "cert'n" and not Ted, with a view both to checking League of Communist Youth, exactly { of proportion & A sense, even more essential to them than to | zary for the player to achieve a con-
In enuncia- professionals. Half an hour a day stant variety in his speech, on the style of the Russian Komsomol; tion in order to achieve the medium of practice in speech and movement AVOIDING MONOTONY and it is this League which has de-course between carelessness and should be the minimum for the con- moralised the young. For the last pedantry. alx months the Communists have
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GOOD PRONUNCIATION
n'
Infection is the principal means
of avoiding monotony. You must not allow your volce to stay for too long on the same note.
tial, however, that, for the time
as they always do (the energy of a being at any rate, dus safeguards' pestiferous microbe) on the "educa- A. very important factor in clear) Pronunciation has to do with, the should be taken by the communitytion" of the young; and in this as in stage speech, which may not be so values to be given to different sounds
other matters they have had abundant noticeable In ordinary conversation, in
a pleasant, liko n. song. order to produce along the lince already indicated. I help from Moscow.
is the necessity of keeping the voice musical, and cultured nécent.
A well-inflected speech is rather There is П definite (Continued on Page 4)
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