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"I

G. Wells and the

of

fate Homo Sapiens*

HAVE been asked to set timid, cunning and inordinately down 23 simply and vain. clearly as I can, in one compact book, the reality of the human situation,

"That is to say, I have been asked to state the world as I see it and what is happening to it. This is the result."

Wells launches a book which In these words Mr. H. G.

Most of the acts of Mr. Chamber- lain since September, 1938, have been as irresponsible as those of any Dictator, equally unserupulous and far more shameful. He has in- deed made himself a Dictator by tast and betrayal instead of by violent seizure.

HITLER

TT is plain that the Fuchrer is

insane; he shows all the sym- toms of a recognised form of acx mania, the jealous fear and hate of the great raping black man-who In his case becomes the Jew,

Sinco in his case the obsession ondangers the

the ilves of people about him, he should be certified and put under restraint.

shattered, Impoverished, chaotic.. invaded from overy direction, and make a working system of It, some sort of new order, howover rough and clumsy, or perish,

And they have made a new order, rough and clumsy stul per- hapa in many aspects, but holding together, and not nearly so rough and clumsy as it might have been.

JAPAN

THE rulers of Japan to-day are

I thought he was honest and Tzis without a litier, Fascists

strong and human.

I have been disillusioned about him mainly by those foolish films of personal propaganda he has allowed to be made, “Lenin on October," for example.

JEWS

WHY should any country want these inassimilable aliens bent on preserving their distinct-

Until they are prepared to assimilate and abandon the Chosen People Idea altogether, their troubles are bound to intensify.

f1c597 in 330 pages ranges over the Citizens of the British Common-whole world scene and depicts wealth in both hemispheres rejoice in neat pen portraits all the at the free, prompt and unanimous big men of the day and the decision of the British Dominions problems they are trying to to join in the struggle against solve. Hitler. Nothing has surprised for- eign countries more sharply, and nothing has angered Hitler more deeply.

The British Commonwealth has its merits and its faults. In war- lime, we see it at its best-a free

It sets down Wells' own private solution to their problems-the education.of.mankind till it.is

for

a democracy in which there is real equality, economie Justice, universal education, and full know- ledge for all those who desire to know.

He calls his book,." The Fate of Homo Sapicns," and it is published

But insanity has its advantagesTM as well as its handicaps. It involves an abnormal concentration of pur- pose and nervous energy.

MUSSOLINI.

"OMPARED with Hitler he is

association of democratic peoples by Secker and Warburg at Is. 6d. Cone, intelligent and human.

who spontaneously unite together to resist the threat of barbarism. Democratic sentiment, despite Mr.

Here are some of the things he has to say-

MR. CHAMBERLAIN

II. G. Wells' article in the adjoin-Ts in the worst possible taste.

ing columns, is the soul of the Bri- tish Commonwealth. A beloved King is its font. And, thanks to the Navy, it has teeth as well.

Few people realise the extent by which the free Dominions can aid the Motherland in this fight against Hitloriam. In this war they are mobilised to a much fuller extent than In the last and, what is more, they have attained power in many wayin increased populations, In increased productivity, in increased wealth. In all of Europe there are only eight countries who can boast mare people than either Canada or j Australia. There are larger popu-

HIS is undignifled writing. This

Yet I cannot explain the twists and turns of Mr. Neville Chamberlain unless I use the terms I do.

How can I adorn him with splen- did prose? I cannot see him as anything but essentially ignorant, subconsciously narrow - minded,

-To-day's Thought. THE future is purchased by

the present.

—SAMUEL JOHNSON,

He is vain, rhetorical and im- mensely energotle, with the energy not of morbid concentration but physical abundance.

He is what many men would like

to bo,

Where Hitler is an unqualifed horror, Mussolini often is, as schoolboys say, a bit of an 088-- which is much more endearing.

Until we remember the castor oil campaign, and the polson bomba in Abyssinia and the Lipari Islands, he is a lark. But then the lark stops singing.

STALIN

TALIN I liked when I talked to him. I did not think he had an overwhelming intelligence, but

ROYALTY

THE monarch professes to act

only on the advice of his or her -Ministers, -but-as-a-matter-of-fact the Court is a centre of social and administrative influence of an tirely undemocratic sort.

A crown is a symbol of graded privilege.

In the place of Hell Hitter or the Fascist salute. thesc royalist peoples, at the sound of their par- ticular National Anthem, stand atly to attention with an air of ineffable reverence.

It is a quite parallel act of wor- ship, and as completo a repudia- tion of the personal responsibility of democracy.

RUSSIA

WHEN everything that can be

Ward he been salt against it.

Hussia still seems to be ahead of the rest of the world in its pro- .gress towards the practical realis- ation of the complete democratic idea.

Whether it will go on and keep that lead is quite another matter.

The Bolshevika, planless them- Belves, had to take over a land

HAVE A RIVAL WHO IS

THEY HAVE

97,412 YEARS

AHEAD

without a Mussolin).

In Japan are the same factors that existed in Russia in 1918, the factors of`a 'crude and violent social revolt. There is no greater threat to a Government than the return of a defeated army.

It will go ill in such an event' with nobles and dignitaries' and' priests, and it is quite among the possibilities of the next few years that the last divino heir of the Sun Goddess may share a parallel fate to that of the last Little Father of Russia.

Then, starting from an even lower level than Russia in 1918, Japan will have to reconstruct its social and economic life.

That may be one possibility, but. history....never. repeats itself... exactly, and revolutionary methods: have changed very greatly in the last twenty years.

CHINA

THE chief forcos operating to produce the China of to- morrow are Chinese Communism, or, to define it more clearly, para- Communiam, and Chiang Kai- -shek's New Life movement, which.

is plainly para-Fascism.

They may combine against the common

mon enemy, but they have no. real convergenco, The end of the war with Japan will release, rather than conciliato, their oppositions.

China liberated will become more--

of world

and more ab battleground of

She will waver between Ideologies, Soviet Rusala and Fascism. be-... tween Christianity of the J. D. Rockefeller type, on the one hand, and a tentative Socialiam after the fashion of the New Deal, rather to the left of the New Deal, on the. other.

BRITAIN

far from exercising any: further leadership in world. affairs, Great Britain 10. much. more likely to withdraw into itself.

THE FUTURE · THERE is no creed, no way of lations in both Dominions than in JAPAN celebrated the 2,600th died because none of them was after the War of Independence, living left in the world at all. Switzerland, Sweden, Austrin, Bul- anniversary of its foundation great enough to govern it. One it is 164 years old.

that really meets the needs of the of them received a large part of

time. garla, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, jas an Empire this week.

POLAND, CZECHO-SLOVA- Norway. Portugal,

In spite of all my disposition to what eventually became France KIA and several other States a brave-looking optimism, I per- Scotland or It makes you think how .com- Slovakia. Even plucky little Fin-[paratively young most of the

as his share.

were only twenty-two years old. | celve now that the universo 18 land, which fights the entire might great nations of the world are. years old. It was proclaimed in war in 1918.

GERMANY is only sixty-nine They were founded after the bored with man, is turning hara face to him, and I see him being of Red Russia, has but half the ENGLAND is 1,111 years old. the Gallery of Mirrors at Ver-

carried along the stream of fate. population of either Canada or Aus-It became a kingdom in 828 sailles in 1871 after the end of marriage made it into a king- death.

SPAIN is 470 years old. Alto degradation, auffering and: In the last war, Australia mobilis-under King Egbert. Before then the Franco-Prussian war. Idom. Ferdinand II. of Aragon That, compactly, is the human ed 412,063 men, sont 957,781 over it had been seven kingdoma. Before that Germany had married Teabella of Castile in qutlook, the only possible alterna....

tive to the wilful and strenuous Bons. The A.L.F. lost 58.132 dead under soven warring Kings. been a mosaic of small States. 1469.

adaptation by ro-education of our and had a total casualty list of England and Scotland were were more than three hundred membered, is only 109 years urging in this book.

In the time of Napoleon there BELGIUM, it is seldom re- species now-forthwith-that I am 214,300, higher in proportion than united when James I. succeeded of them. the casualty lists of either Britain, in 1608.

jold. In 1830 it belonged to

Adapt br perish, that is and France or Germany.

ITALY I only seventy-nino Holland, but in that year there always has been the implacable And, what is more, the Dominions and Ireland, which meant the 1861 out of the separate States lgium became a separate king- just possible. That is as much as..

The Kingdom of Great Britain years old. It was founded in was a national rising and Bat law of life for all its children.

A salvaging of the speales ta still equipped and maintained their own end of the Scottish Parliament, of foreign provinces of Pied-dom under Leopold of Saxe. the most hopeful mind can say, forces in 1914-18. The million did not come until 1707, and is mont, Sardinia, Lombardy, Tus-Coburg, Queen Victoria's unclo. Fine old Latin phrase, mon they sent to Europe alded therefore 238 years old. materially in the Allied victory.

cany, Modena, FRANCE Is 1,097 years old. Romanga and Sicily.

Parina, No But easily the oldest of them Hitler faces moro than England 'It was not born until the year

all, at least according to her own and Franco. Ho faces -- Empire.843. Three sons of Charlemagne odd to recall, is older than many logend the "Celestial Empire" is THE UNITED STATES, it is claims, is China. According to upon which the sun never sets. cut up his vast empire when he European States. Born in 1770 100,000 years old.

tralia.

meaning you and me. and the rest of us.