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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938.

NAZIISM AND RELIGION However one may disapprove Nazi policy at home and abroad, it is impossible to withhold wonder, if not admiration, for the seemingly tireless energy with which it pursues its enda. The eradication of the Jew and all his works from Germany

would seem to be a sufficiently onerous and complicated task to absorb the whole of the imme- diate attention of those who are seeking to fulfil their dream of an Aryan people, united by blood and goil in a totalitarian

system of loyalty to a common purpose personified, almost dei- fied, in Herr Hitler.

But there are other influences

besides that of Hebraism that endanger the future of the totalitarian self-sufficient State. Chief among these is the Chris- |tian Faith, partly because of its

HISTORY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE

D

EMOCRACY on the Continent, was growing among ment was almost wholly leader- barricaded; civil servants armed.

the British industrial workers, less, broken and disorgnised. defensive, as we see

The Chartists had arranged to and in many districts men were O'Connor directed the remn- assemble on the Common and to it to-day, seems a far reported to be arming and ants of the movement from march thence to Westminster. cry from the time when men drilling. The Government be- gnol and he was able to gain The Government proposed to claiming equal rights in gan to organise forces to resist complete control on his release, stop them by holding the citizenship were attacking insurrection.

bridges.

But the demonstration proved UNDER O'Connor's a flasco, not more than 50,000 Chartiam turned up, no attempt was made:

leadership

Was.

the strongholds of privilege. Moderates ruled the Conven- Yet one hundred years ago tion until the rejection by Parli- there was launched in Britain ament of the Charter petition. 14 movement which in a few Then the "physical force" men reached the crest of its strength, to force the bridges, and the years gripped the nation, struck gained control. Orders for 2 and in 1842 three and a half great national petition terror in the heart of reaction, general strike were issued amid million signatures the popula- gunminiously delivered by cabl and laid the foundations of great excitement and then were tion was then 18,000,000 were it was found to bear only two. British democracy.

cancelled when it was realised obained to a now petition. But million names. that no proper preparations had this suffered the same fato as O'Connor lost his hold and his On that day William Lovett, been made.

the first. A now wave of strikes mind. (He became insane in: founder of the London Working

The Convention went on talk- swept the country in answer to 1852 and died three years later.) Men's Association, published ing of means of coercing the wage cuts during a period of Desperate efforts were made to. the "People's Charter," which Government, including a run on trade depression, but O'Connor keep Chartiam alive, but it was. became the basis of Chartiam, the banks, until the militants, failed to develop it into a gen- dond by 1858. the revolutionary democratic despairing of any real action eral strike, and so the second Why did it fall? It repre ngitation which swept all and still toying with the idea of phase of Chartism ended in de- sented the challenge of a work- almost as suddenly as it arose. Newport (Mon.) rising. Britain before it faded away insurrection, decided upon

the feat.

ing-class, politically immature, Chartism flared up once more uneducated and ill-equipped, to- the the release of Henry Vincent, O'Connor as M.P. for Notting- strongly entrenched and well The capture of the town and in 1847 with the election of a dominant. economic power, leading Chartist orator, who ham. Again the movement cen- on its way to unparalleled Im- was in Monmouth Castle, was to tred on a petition, and this time perial expansion. be the signal for general insur O'Connor claimed to have six rection.

Six demands comprised

Charter:

Equal electoral areas; Universal suffrage; Payment of M.P.s; Vote by ballot; Abolition of property quali.

fications; and

Annual Parliaments.

million signatures.

The

A mighty demonstration was

IT was, too, one of the planned on Kennington Common

carliest manifesta- THE attack was to have for April 10, 1848, and it was tions of class struggle which, All but the last are now ac-

been made by three intended that half a million men contrary to what some politi- cepted facts, but in those times columns on November 4, 1839, should march to Parliament to cians would have us believe, was of extreme misery and degra- but owing to mismanagement present the petition.

a native British product. dation of the workers, particu- these failed to unite and the The Government, by this time Its lessons live on. larly among the factory opera- assault was carried out by only thoroughly alarmed for the Chartists, hampered themselves tives, colliers and handloom 3,000 men armed with rifles tide of revolution was running by the lack of political theory, workers of the Midlands and the and colliers' picks. Warned of high on the Continent-placed produced the seeds which the. North, these few demands cap- their approach a small party of the Duke of Wellington in genius of Marx and Engels was tured the imagination of the soldiers were lying in wait and charge of military measures to to develop into the theoretical people.

casily dispersed them with rifle prevent insurrection. Two hun- basis of modern revolutionary fire and within a few minutes dred thousand special constables Socialism. the insurrectionists were flying were enrolled. to the hills,

Troops and artillery were CHARTISM arose after

Savage prosections followed, placed at strategic points nl! the defeat of the

scores were transported, and by over central London; Govern- carly Trade Union movement the middle of 1840 the move- ment offices and banks were in the 1830's, when a small group of London men formed the Working Men's Association, which set to building unity of all the forces in that revolt upon the programme of the Charter.

age

of

Lawrence H.

Kirwan

The Moan of the Pessimist

These workers sent out "mis- A FEW days ago I was chatting to expect Noah told his sons with a heaven, we were all going direct the

an old-timer who could see no-sigh that they were living in de- other way-in short, the period was sionaries" all over Britain, and thing good in the present. Every generate days. The Romans must so far lite present period." armed insurrection was freely thing that was beautiful belonged to have sorrowed for the age when the advocated, 80 keen

the "dear dead days." Football was mightly Caesar led his victorious A Wonderful World was tho

no longer what It used to be. What es demand for democratic

legions to the ends of the known repre- have we to-day lo compare with the world. Even in the eighteenth cen- There is every reason to belleve sentation.

good old has-beens? The modem tury Oliver Goldsmith is lamenting things were never so bad as they

4 music-hall is wash-out. Not a the sad decline of all things human. are now. Just as surely things were Rapidly becoming the most decent artist since Paul Langtry and "Il fares the land, to hastening ills never so good. It depends on the popular leader was one Feargus Little Tich were on the boards. As O'Connor, former Irish M. demagogue who rarely made speech without revolution.

about them the better. Modern life a was as stupid and insipid as post- calling for war whisky.

for modern politicians, the less said

same

༞.

prey

point of view. Europe was never so

Caesar, and partly because its / Parliament called the National living in the past. He had come It is the swan song of the choleric indly and tolerant spirit among us,

moral doctrines

encourage

Where wealth accumulates and distracted, the crisis that threatens

men decay."

our civilisation was never so sinis- Edmund Burke, at the close of this ter, and taxation was never so in- century and when Madame tolerable. But as certainly can wo I am not given much to fat con- Guillotine was being sated with the assert that we are living in a wonderful age. Possibly the most. tradiction. prefer to be a good blood of French aristocrats, was interesting this world has known. First step in the Chartist listener. Obviously to my mind the boring the House of Common The conditions of life for the mass claim on its members for a campaign was the setting up by poor fellow had grown sentimental tears with

diamal dirge. "The loyalty to another God than the disfranchised of a people's with the advance of years. He was age of chivalry is gone, and the of the population are infinitely brigh- to flower Europe is perished forever." ter, more decent, more sensible than they used to be. There is a more that stage when one can think of Convention, which sat as a rival nothing but the glory that is

and the despairing. gone:

and the minds of men are far from to the House of Commons and Those hoppy times that shimmered "We have been going to the dogs bent on helping and cleansing and. sense of the dignity of man and presented a petition, bearing haze were full of peace and quiet opening paragraph of 'A Tale of Two those who have fallen by the way- In the light of a romantic golden

den ever since the race began. In the lifting up the souls and bodies of of a universal human brother-one million signatures, de and wholesome labour, Its miseries Cities Dickens sums up the position alde.

manding of that august as- and cruelties were forgotten, and admirably. It was the best of times. hood quite incompatible with

sembly all six points of the the ills

Compare the moral standard of of present had become it was the worst of times.

the the Nazi

It was our day with that of a century ago, dogma of race Charter.

n source of grief, as though they the age of foolishness, it was the and you will find it amazingly high superiority. Quite logically

were newly arisen and freshly en- epoch of belief... it was the spring and uncommonly sound. How many therefore the Leader, to whom by delegates elected at vaat

The Convention was attended gendered.

of hope, It was the winter of de hospitals and infirmaries are caring The mood is as old as mon. I' pals

we are all going direct to for the sick? How many homes are Democracy and the League of torchlight meetings held all

making more comfortable' the aged? Nations and other kindred con-over the country, and first sat

Think of the chance modern child is receiving. Think of the constant outflow of money for charit- able purposes. The week's good cause never fails to elicit a vast

ceptions born and bred in Chris- on February 4, 1839, at the GRIN AND BEAR IT tian ideology are anathema, British Hotel, Cockapur Street, must attack them at their Charing Cross. The spirit of} fountain head. The surprises revolt, already in action on the are (a) that the Nazi rulera | ==

have

sufficient

superfluous working out, the entire elimina- vitality to launch and continuction of Roman Catholic teaching the assault, and (b) that even and influence from the school people so disciplined and system throughout Austria,. idealistic as the Germans do not

The struggle will be long and revoll."

bitter, for Roman Catholicism is The campaign opened at tho in its sphere as determinedly very beginning of the Nazi totalitarian as Nazlism itself, regime, and in Germany proper, and under the recent Dollfuss- the pre-Anschluss Germany, has Schuschnigg regime it wielded n developed very specially perhaps fairly considerable political against the Protestant and power in Austria. The Isaur Evangelical Churches. Now it seeing to depend on the extent has been extended to Austria. to which the Roman Catholic There the enemy is Roman population (nominally at least a Catholicism, and its stronghold] vast majority) are prepared to is the School. First steps have fight, or compromise, or ac- already been taken. The nuns quiesce. Three possibilities aro have been banished from the mentioned. Some doubtless 'will] Kindergartens in Vienna, in-support the Pope and Cardinal cidentally also from the Hos- Innitzer through thick and thin pitals and their places as and, judging from recent`utter- supervisors—or nurses-have! ances, both are likely to assert been taken by Nazi lay ap the authority of the Vatican. pointoes. This is, however, only Some soem anxious to and a viu preliminary Plans have been media. Many-how many it in published which contemplate in impossible to say-are. Nazi their gradual but complete first, and Catholle only secondly,

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We have undoubtedly made sub- stantial progress. The old slums are fast disappearing and garden cities. are being built all around us. We are becoming physically atter. Ac- cording to the latest reports of the He insurance companies the average le in Britaita-to-day, -ls 50; compared with 40 half a century ago.

Sir Oliver Lodge is of opinion that If the present progress is maintained people a century hence "will live to a hundred and be useful all the ime." This does not suggest de generation, Nor are we morally corrupt. Vice is prevalent. It al- ways was. But the amount of sheer goodness among us la amazing. Bir Berkeley Moynihan said in an ad- dress lately:-"I believe in the essential goodness of human nature.

I have to deal with people in the great cries of their lives-the- great testing times of their charac ters, and I find that when the aver age character goes into this crucible it is pure gold that comes out. There Le pire gold in the heart of the worst of us.”

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· Yet in spite _of_all, I am not a cheery, optimist. I have a sort of

caking regard for the pessimist. All La not quiet on the wester front. One mistake we have made. in to pat ourselves on the back, and we Imagine we are such a wonderful! age. Our children are beginning to wonder how in all the earth, Undirs grandfathers over managed to

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