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WEDNESDAY, Ocronen 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 ends. 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 soil in a totalitarian system of loyalty to a common purpose personified, almost dei- fied, in Herr Hitler.

HISTORY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE

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Moderates ruled the Conven-

UNDER

was

EMOCRACY on the Continent, was growing among ment was almost wholly leader- barricaded; civil servants armed. The Chartists had arranged to defensive, as we see the British industrial workers, less, broken and disorgnised,

and in many districts men wero 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- gaol and he was able to gain The Government proposed to them by holding the claiming equal rights in gan to organise forces to resist complete control on his release. stop

bridges. citizenship were attacking insurrection.

But the demonstration proved the strongholds of privilege.

O'Connor's a flasco, not more than 50,000 Yet one hundred years ago tlon until the rejection by Parli-

leadership Chartism turned up, no attempt was made there was launched in Britain ament of the Charter petition.

national petition movement which in a few Then the "physical force" men reached the crest of its strength, to force the bridges, and the

a and in 1842 three and a half great years gripped the nation, struck gained control. Orders for terror in the heart of reaction, general strike were issued amid million signatures the popula- igonminiously delivered by cab! and laid the foundations of great excitement-and then were tion was then 18,000,000 were It was found to bear only two

cancelled when it was realised obained to a new petition. But million names. British democracy.

O'Connor lost his hold and his that no proper preparations had this suffered the same fate as On that day William Lovett, been made.

the first. A new wave of strikes mind. (He became insane in founder of the London Working The Convention went on talk swept the country in answer to 1862 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 Chartism alive, but it was became the basis of Chartism, the banks, until the militants, failed to develop it into a gen- dead by 1858.

Why did it fall? It repre- the revolutionary democratic despairing of any real action eral strike, and so the second agitation which swept all and still toying with the idea of phase of Chartism ended in de- gented the challenge of a work-

the feat.

ing-class, politically immature, Britain before it faded away insurrection, decided upon almost as suddenly as it arose. Newport (Mon.) rising.

Chartism flared up once more uneducated and ill-equipped, to economic power, The capture of the town and in 1847 with the election of a dominant the release of Henry Vincent, O'Connor as M.P. for Notting- strongly entrenched and well 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.

Six demands comprised Charter:

Equal electoral areas; Universal auffrage;

Payment of M.P.8;

Vote by ballot;

the

Abolition of property quali-

fications; and

Annual Parliaments.

All but the inst are now uc-

be the signal for general insur- O'Connor claimed to have six. rection.

million signatures.

IT was, too, one of the

The

A mighty demonstration was

carliest manifesta-- planned on Kennington Common THE attack was to have for April 10, 1848, and it was tions of class struggle which, 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

a native British product. of extreme misery and degra- but owing to mismanagement present the petition.

Ita The Government, by this time

lessons live on. dation of the workers, particu- these failed to unite and the larly among the factory opera- assault was carried out by only thoroughly alarmed for the Chartists, hampered themselves. lives, 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 Engela was tured the imagination of the soldiers were lying in wait and charge of military measures to to develop into the theoretical easily dispersed them with rifle prevent insurrection. Two hun- basis of modern revolutionary people.

fire and within a few minutes dred thousand special constables Socialism. the insurrectionists were flying were enrolled.

Troops and artillery to the hills. CHARTISM arose after

Savage prosections followed, placed at strategic points all the defeat of the scores were transported, and by over central London: Govern- early 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 ago of revolt upon the programme of the Charter.

for

The Moan of

modern politicians, the less sald about them the better, Modern life) was as stupid and insipid as post- for war whisky.

а

were

Lawrence H.

Kirwan

the Pessimist

with a dismal

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 like present period." armed insurrection was freely thing that was beautiful belonged to have sorrowed for the age when the

the "dear dead days." Football was mightly Cassar led his victorious A Wonderful World advocated, so keen was tho

no longer what it used to be. What leglons to the ends of the known

Even in the eighteenth cen- There is every reason to believe demand for democratic repre- have we to-day to compare with the world. sentation.

good old has-beens? The modern tury Oliver Goldsmith is lamenting things were never so bad as they music-hall is wash-out Not a the sad decline of all things human. are now, Just as surely things were But there are other influences

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills never so good. It depends on the Rapidly becoming the most decent artist since Paul Langtry and

prey!

point of view. Europe was never so. besides that of Hebraism that popular lender was one Feargus Little Tich were on the boards. As

Where wealth accumulates and distracted, the crisis that threatens our civilisation was never so sinis-" men decay." endanger the future of the O'Connor, former Irish M.P., a

Edmund Burke, at the close of this ter, and taxation was never so in- certainly can we tolerable. But as totalitarian self-sufficient State, demagogue who rarely made

without calling speech

are living in a ussert that we same century and when Madame

wonderful age. Possibly the most. Chief among these is the Chris-revolution,

I am not given much to flat con- Guillotine was being sated with the s

WDS French aristocrats, blood of

vas Interesting this world has known. indiction obviously to my mind the boring the House of Commons he The conditions of life for the mass tian Faith, partly because of its

First step in the Chartist listener. Obviously to my mind the claim on its members for a campaign was the setting up by poor fellow had grown sentimental

they used to be. There is a more 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 living in the past. He had come to flower Europe is perished forever. ter, more decent, more sensible thun and the minds of men are far from Caesar, and partly because its parliament called the National that stage when one can think of It is the swan song of the choleric kindly and tolerant spirit among us..

Convention, which sat as a rival nothing but the glory that is gone and the despairing.

"We have been going to the dogs bent on helping and cleansing and. to the House of Commons and Those hoppy times that shimmered in the light of romantic golden

den ever since the race began. In the lifting up the souls and bodies of petition, bearing in presented a

haze were full of peace and quiet opening paragraph of 'A Tale of Two those who have fallen by the way- million signatures, de- and wholesome labour, its miseries Cities Dickens sums up the position side.

Compare the moral standard of manding of that august as- and cruelties were forgotten, and admirably. It was the best of times,

It was our day with that of a century ago,. hood quite incompatible with sembly all six points of the the ills of the present had become it was the worst of times.

a source of grief, as though they the age of foolishness, it was the and you will find it amazingly high the Nazi dogma of race Charter.

were newly arisen and freshly en- epoch of belief. It was the spring and uncommonly sound. How many superiority. Quite logically

of hope, It was the winter of de- hospitals and infirmaries are caring. The Convention was attended gendered. therefore the Leader, to whom by delegates elected at vast

The mood is as old as man. I spair... we are all going direct to for the sick? How many homes are making more comfortable the aged? Think of the chance the modern Democracy and the League of torchlight meetings held all

child is receiving. Think of the Nations and other kindred con- over the country, and first sat

constant outflow of money for charit

The week's good able purposes, ceptions born and bred in Chris- on February 4, 1839, at the GRIN AND BEAR IT

cause never fails to cllelt a Vest tian ideology are anathema, British- Hotel, Cockspur Street, The spirit of must attack them at their Charing Cross.

moral doctrines encourage sense of the dignity of man and of a universal human brother-one

sufficient

revolt, already in action on the

fountain head. The surprises aro (a) that the Nazi rulers have

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

The struggle will be long and rovolt,

bitter, for Roman Catholicism is The campaign opened at the in its sphero na determinedly very beginning of the Nazi | totalitarian as Nazism itself,! regime, and in Germany proper, and under the recent Dollfuse- the pre-Anschluss Germany, has Schuschnigg regime it wielded a considerable political developed very specially perhaps fairly

Protestant ngainst the

and power in Austria. The issue Evangelical Churches. Now it stems 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 already been taken. The nuns quicsce. Three possibilities are 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 up the authority of the Vatican. pointees, This is, however, only Some seem anxious to find a via preliminary. Plans have been media. Many-how many it is published which contemplato in impossible to say-are Nazi their gradual but complete first, and Catholic only secondly.

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I have a sort of cheery optimist. sneaking regard for the pessimist. All is not quiet on the western front. One mistake we have made is to pat ourselves on the back, and we Imagine we are such a wonderful age. Our children aro Beginning; to wonder how in all the earth; theft. grandfathers over managed to exist.. (Continued on. Page: 4.);