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fate of Homo Sapiens

HAVE been asked to set down 48 simply and 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 sed it and what is happening to it. This is the result."

More praise in due, too, to the Navy for convoying them around Wells launches a book which In these words Mr. H. G.

the globe without mishap.

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for a democracy in which there is real equality, economic justice, deeply.

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H. G. Wella' article in the adjoin 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.

He calls his book, "The Fate of Homo Sapiens," and it is published by Secker and Warburg at 78. Od. Here are some of the things he has to say:

MR. CHAMBERLAIN

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HIS is undignided writing. This is in the worst possible taste, Yot I cannot explain the twists and turns of Mr. Noville Chamberlain unless I use the terma I do.

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

„To-day's Thought_ THE future is purchased by

the present,

--SAMUEL JOHNSON,

timid, cunning and inordinately vain.

Most of the acts of Mr. Chamber- Iain since September, 1938, have been as irresponsible as those of any Dictator, equally unscrupulous and for mors shameful. He has in- deed made himself a Dictator by tact and betrayal instead of by violent seizure.

HITLER

IT is plain that the Fuehrer 1s

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

Since in his case the obsesalon endangers the lives of people about him, he should be certified

and put under restraint.

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

MUSSOLINI

COMPARED with Hitler he la 'sane, intelligent and humAN. He is vain, thetorical and im- mensely energetic, with the energy not of morbid concentration but physical abundance,

He is what many men would like to be.

Where Hitler is an unqualified horror. Mussolini often 13, 05 schoolboys say, a bit of an all--- which is much more endearing.

I thought he was honest and strong and human.

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

JEWS

WHY should any country want these inassimilabie allens bent on preserving their distinct- ness?

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

ROYALTY

THE monarch professes to act

shattered, impoverished, chaotic, invaded from every direction, and

make a working system of it, some- sort of now order, however rough and clumsy, or perish.

a new

And they have made order, rough and clumsy süll per-- haps in many aspects, but holding together, and not nearly no rough and clumsy as it might have been....

JAPAN

THE rulers of Japan to-day are

Nazis without a Hitter, Fascists. without a Mussolini.

In Japan are the same factors that existed in Russia in 1018, the factors of a crude and violent social revolt. There is no greater threat to a Government than the return of a defeated army.

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

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

only on the advice of his or her That may be and possibility, but

Ministers, but as a matter of fact the Court is a centre of social and administrative Influence of an en- tirely undemocratic sort.

A crown is a symbol of graded privilege.

In the place of Hell Hitler or the

Fasciat salute. theso royallet peoples, at the sound of their pår- ticular National Anthem, stand stily to attention with an air of Incable reverence.

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

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RUSSIA

overything that can be .

Until wo remember the castor oil Waid has been said against it.

campaign, and the poison bombs in Abyssinia and the Lipart Islands, he is a lark. But then the lark stops singing.

STALIN

CYTALIN I Nked when I talked to bim. I did not think he had an overwhelming intelligence, but

Russia 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 Bolsheviks, plantess them- selves, had to take over a land

THEY HAVE A RIVAL WHO IS

97,412 YEARS AHEAD

of them received a large part of

history mover repeats itself exactly, and revolutionary methods have changed very greatly in the last twenty years.

CHINA

THE chief forces operating to

produce the China of to--

morrow are Chinese Communism,. er, to define it more clearly, para-- Communism, and Chiang Kai- shek's Now Life movement, which is plainly para-Fascism.

more.

They may combine against the common enemy, but they have no- real convergence. The end of the war with Japan will release, rather than conclllate, their oppositions.

China liberated will become i and more A battleground of world She will waver between ideologies, Soviet Russia and Fascism, be- tween Christianity of the J. D. Rockefeller type, on the one hand, and a tentative Bocialism after the fashion of the Now Deal, rather to the left of the New Deal, on the other.

BRITAIN

from exorcising any

Sfurther leadership in world.

affairs, Great Britain is much. more likely to withdraw into itself.

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THE FUTURE

"HERE is no creed, no way of living loft in the world at all, that really meets the needs of the time.

In spite of all my disposition to

Few people realise the extent by which the free Dominions can aid the Motherland in this fight against Hitlerism. 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 | ways—in increased populations, in Increased productivity, in increased wealth. In all of Europe there ara only eight countries who can boast more people than either Canada or Australia. There are larger popu- iations in both Dominions than in JAPAN celebrated the 2,600th died because none of them was (after the War of Independence, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Rul anniversary of its foundation great enough to govern it. One it is 164 years old. garla, Denmark, Grecce, Ireland, as an Empire this week,

POLAND, CZECHO-SLOVA- what eventually became France KIA and several other States a brave-looking optimism, I per- Norway, Portugal, Scotland or It makes you think how com-

as his share. Slovakia. Even plucky little Fin-paratively young most of the

were only twenty-two years old. ceiro now that the universe is 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, le turning a hard.

face to him, and I soo him being of Red Russin, na but half the

carried ENGLAND is 1,111 years old. the Gallery of Mirrors at Ver-

along the stream of tato SPAIN is 470 years old. A to degradation, auffering and 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.

dom. Ferdinand II. of Aragon That, compactly, is the human In the last war, Australia mobilis-under King Egbort. Before then the Franco-Prussian war. ed 412,963 men, sent 367,781 over it had been seven kingdoms been a mosaic of small States. 1469.

Before that Germany had married Isabella of Castile in outlook, the only possible alterna

tive

to the wilful and strenuous Beas. The A.I.F. lost 68,132 dead under seven warring Kings. In the time of Napoleon there

adaptation by re-education of our and had a total casualty list of England and Scotland were were more than three hundred membered, is only 100 years urging in this book.

BELGIUM, it is seldom re-species now-forthwith-that I am 214,360, higher in proportion than united when James I. succeeded of them. the casualty lists of either Britain, in 1603.

old. In 1830 it belonged to Adapt or perish, that is France or Germany...

ITALY is only seventy-nine 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 separato States glum became a separate king- just possible. That to 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 species is 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 ia ment, Sardinia, Lombardy. Tus- Coburg, Queen Victoria's uncle. Fine old Latin phrase, mon they sont to Europe aided therefore 238 years old, cany, Modena, matorially in the Allied victory. FRANCE is 1,097 years old. Romanga and Sicily.

Parma, No But easily the oldest of them. Hillar faces more than England. It was not born until the year

Jall, at least according to her own THE UNITED STATES, it is claims, is China. According to and France. He faces Empire 843. Three sons of Charlemagne odd to recall, fa older than many legend the "Celestial Empire" is upon which the sun never acts. cut up his vast empire when he European States. Born in 1776 100,000 years old.

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