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LOST

MEANING?

MR.

R. A. P. HERBERT Thus, if you could imagine people have to agree that a I noticed an example of the The line that's ahead in new recently broadcast a a big stretch of the imagination word means whatever he wants same thing recently in a German

Communist England en it to mean.

broadcast in English in which comfort, talk on "Bad Language." gaged in war against an Ireland

Thus when Herr' Hitler uses the speaker declared that the long-lived By this he meant the woolly which contained only three

jurgon and long words that Communists, those three Com- the word "freedom," the Ger- present war was organised by have alway been dear to the munists would be recognised as man, though compelled to ip- English capitalists (aided, of the "Irish people" or "prole- plaud, knows that he has to be- course, by Jewish financiers), official mind,

tariat," and the English Co - ware. He knows that the word whose sole object was to destroy There is another kind of munist Government would deny is a signal for riveting more the Socialist German State. language, however, which to an that it was making war on Ire, securely the chains that are the What, I wonder, would Wil- increasing degree in modern land or the Irish people and de- badge of his servitude. Or, liam Morris or Keir Hardie have times has become $1 public clare that it was really rescuing perhaps, he doesn't know. The said if anyone had described. danger. This is the topsy turvy them from their oppressors. topsy-turvy language may have Nazism to them and called it language which is spoken by I do not think that is an un- fair picture of what the

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worked,

Socialism? There is an element dictators and their followers-

Until the end of last summer of Socialism in it, no doubt, a language in which words may Russians say they are doing in many people thought that Hitler but there are other elements mean anything, even if it is the

meant what he said on at least in it that are more akin to Rome opposite to what they are said

Nor is it only the Communists one subject-Bolshevism. "The under Nero. Certainly if Socin- to mean in the dictionary.

who use the words "peace" and masters of Russia to-day," he lism meant Nazism, none of the Thus peace" has ceased to "war" in a sense that would not

said "are bloodstained criminals great English Socialists would mean merely peace: it can also have been understood 50 years The international Jew, he de- Nazism is based, as Herr Hitler the dregs of humanity." ever have advocated it. For- mean war with tanks, incen ago. The Nazis have a gift for

diary bombs and all the rest of the same kind of language which clared, is to-day "the absolute has made clear, on contempt for it. Japan is apparently at peace sometimes makes modern poli- master of Russia." The forces the working classes. with China; Russia is apparently ties as difficult to understand as of Bolshevism, he maintained,

modern poetry.

were

tween

"sub-human," and Ger-

X. at peace with Finland: at least

many could never make an al- I trust that the use of mean- war has not been declared in either case. Yet how like war

liance with them except at the ingless language--or, rather, of chameleon language that may the whole thing seems!

I confess I found Herr Hitler cost of her certain ruin.

This all seemed as clear as the change its meaning to almost Russia, it is true, would pro- almost unintelligible last Ap til

never become- arrangement or in part without previous bably admit that she is carrying when after the march into prose of Dean Swift. And yet, anything-will

events have proved, what popular in England. on a sort of war against sonic- Prague, he said: "We have as

The only safeguard against it thing called the Finnish White given Central Europe a great Herr Hitler really meant was Guard. But she does not ad- fortune, namely, peace." If he that Bolshevism wasn't the is to examine carefully the mit that she is at war with Fin- had killed all the Czechs you slightest danger in the world meaning of words and to make BEFORE the war it was one of land or the Finnish people.

a natural sure that, when anyoño usea. might have understood him as and that there was the chief purposes of German

Auch 23 "brothers," meaning that he had given the and traditional friendship be words propaganda to circulate reports

Czechs the peace of the grave.

Russia and Germany. "people," "proletariat," "capi-

"Imperialist," "war". word But the Czechs were still alive When he said "blood-stained talist," held by the Nazis, with which

was only the monger." "Jew," "Socialist," they would exterminate any

that in recent times has come and their country had merely criminals," it foolish enough to oppose them. to

mean almost anything. It become a prison and a place of modern way of saying "jolly and so forth, he means exactly what he says and not something. "Great fortune" and good pals." Even nervous old ladies came in may mean the majority of the torment.

With language gone tops; quite different. the end to take these tales with inhabitants of a country, or it "peace" are not the usual words

I may be old-fashioned, but I' a large allowance of salt.

may mean one or more inhabi- for this, but the Nazis have a turvy like this it is no wonder Now that the war is on, the tants of a country who happen dictionary of their own, accord- that we hear the Altmark des- like words to be made to mean Germans' "frightening"

tales to agree with you. To a Com- ing to which coal may legitim- cribed as a merchant ship, and what they mean in the diction

After all, it is pleasant to- continue more energetically than munist apparently the members ately be described as white and the heroic exploit by which the ary.

British prisoners were rescued be able to understand other Scarcely a day passes of the working-classes in any snow as black.

Such things are people and not to be constantly- A Nazi has the right, if he as "bestial." without some report of terrors in country, however few they may store for the Allies. Among the be, who happen to agree with likes, to call a cigarette a pan- merely the result of the inven- wondering whether they have: latest are the announcements him become automatically the cake-or-a-glass of water an tion of a national vocabulary of lost their reason or are only in-. that the enemy has a bigger- "people" or the "proletariat." than-ever Bertha, whose range is

ever.

165 miles, and that U-boats are

about to launch a severe blow at

Allied shipping in the region of the West Indies.

These statements may prove

"People" is another

The

elephant. And

the

German meaninglessness.

fernal hypocrites.

New God: Adolf Hitler

to be well-founded or they may IN the whole complex of the Ger-

Replying

to

the

in

place new "God," Adolf Hitler. The texts And Dr. Ley, of the Church Hymns are altered.

people. It cannot and will not suf

the German in

highest sense,

not. Doubtless they are circu-

man democratic opposition the Catholic Bishops in their "Hirten- of the crucified one." Inted in good faith. The

Church movement plays one of the brief" of May, 1933, declared:-"By even clearer:The party claims the The new version of Psalm 07 is:- most important roles alongside the

no means do we Catholics find it hard totality of the soul of the German The Lord loveth the hills of Ger.. supreme triumph of Nazi propa-

people of the working class, the ganda-would be to obtain the un-middle class, and the farmers.

to value the new strong stress of fer another party or polat of view any more than all the dwellings

abroad." witting services of neutrals for

The struggle of the German Church authority In the German State, and to dominate in Germany. We be lieve that German people can win

And furthermore Rosenberg- gave its dissemination. But the re-

Is a very hard one, and it is im- we willingly submlt to it."

immortality only through National- the clue for all the terror against: ports are part of too long a

Similar statements were made by Socialism, and therefore we "need the Christians. "The refusal of: succession of canards to have portant that this fact should come

to the knowledge of the people the Protestants. These declarations the last German, neither Protestant Germanistic ideals in Germany is a much face value,

throughout the world. This strug are proofs of their willingness to be nor Catholic,"·

gle goes very far over the frame of loyal to the Hitler regime. On July

political group. Moreover,

a

pure betrayal of the people. `Later the time will come which will place this crime on the same level as high-

It B, 1933, after the Concordat with the World-Wide Ambitions unites different opposition groups. Vatican had been concluded, the The Protestant and the Catholic trenson," and so is, becoming one of the Fuhrer declared that "compulsory Church did not concede to Nazism Churchpeople of the Left strongest factors in the aght against measures against clergy and Church what was expected or demanded. Narlem and war.

Speaking of the Church move-

organisations will по longer tolerated."

It would be very agreeable to the enemy if large numbers of submarine chasers were diverted from the waters around the British islands to the Western Atlantic. Even if U-boats do become a nuisance in those regions, the Navy will be able to deal with them there as is being ment, it comprises the religious in- Broken Promises done elsewhere.

stitutions as a whole, especially the numbered 41 million souls in 1033, and the Catholle Church with about million members. Both creeds are oppressed and persecuted alike.

But when a

belligerent intends to launch Protestants, which some surprise blow, he does not proclaim it beforehand to all the world. It would then be only an Irishman's surprise.

This "later time" has become reat

be Most of the ministers, priests, and

Church people hold that God is above with all its horrors. Pope Pius XI. Hitler, and believe in the ideals of in his Christmas messagé 1937- love and brotherhood instead of nounced:"There is a persecution in: But as in all other cases, Hitler hatred against, other nations and Germany. For a long time it has. did not keep his promises; he could races. Their principles ore: "Thou been denied, declared to be not, true.. 1 not keep them. In the attempts to shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" On the contrary, we know that only a few times in the world's history totalarise" every sphere of activity and "Thou shalt not kill."

has such a grave and terrible per- in Germany, many efforts were made

But these views afe contrary, to secution been experienced. We are

In

People abroad cannot understand to turn the Church into a slave of the ideology and deeds of Nazism. impelled to say that this persecution Similarly with the biggest why Nazism should attack religious National - Socialism. Already Bertha. In the last war theso | freedom and the Independence of the "Mein Kampf," "Hitler wrote upper hand, Europe to-day would be force, nor is it free from the burn-- politician; however, must estimate the value of a religion, not so much from the point of view of the faults Inherent in it, but in relation to the advantage of a substitute which may

Church. What advantage can come In this from it?

Offers of Loyalty.

"If this idea of love had gained the is not lacking in either brutality or Krupp monstrosities were scarce-

nothing but a mass of many hundred ing scars of falsification and of lies." ly worth the candle.

millions stripped bare of any charac- war they are something of an

Often I was asked how is it possi ter," is the opinion of Rosenberg. anachronism. If Germany has

ble that the Church movement is also The pollitcal aims of Nazism have defended by supporters of the left. myriads of bombers with which to attack British towns, why states:We demand freedom for all substitute appears, only fools ant world, and that can result only in point of view usually againat "the- Article 24 of the Nazi programme be manifestly better. But until some always been to rule over the whole parties; these people are in their trouble with super-artillery,

religious confessions in the State a criminals will destroy what is there war. For

these aims Hitlerism which would be less effective and

Christian religion.. But the answer far as they do not endanger its soon wear out? That is, unless existence or give offence against the on the spot."

could not use peace-loving people, to this question is a very simple- but must have war-inspired people. one. The German people have been. the Germans tacitly admit they moral feeling of the German race."

This "substitute" was found when it did not need a pacifistic peace- afraid for years of a terrible war to. cannot hope to make much im-And after his access to power in his Dr. Kerri, Minister for Church pression with their bombers in speech to the Reichsing on March 23, Affairs, made known to the world:ing religion but a 'herole Fire which Hitler's polley might lend; for

Spirit" the face of the British anti- | 1933, Hitler again promised: "The The question of the divinity of

years they have been fighting for aircraft defences.

For that reason Rosenberg con- their liberty and peace. The Church. National Government sees in the two Christ is ridiculous and unnecessary, There are also hints of other Christian creeds most important fac- a new authority has arisen, as to structed the "Myth of the Superiority has also to defend the existence,. "secret weapons" than the tors for the preservation of our na- what Christ and Christianity really of the German Race," which is the attacked by Nazism, and preaches magnetic, minc,, and reports, of Uonal values. It will respect the aro-Adolf Hitler!" In addition to basis of the new Nazi religious insti- pieaće. This was strongly folk.by tho impending German offensives-treaties made between them and the this, in his "Myth of the Twentieth tution. the so-called "German Reichs Left people too, and the result was all part of the too-familiar State. The rights of the Churches Century," Rosenberg says:--"A. Ger- Church." The Christian crous in re- their supporting the Church in the technique of the Nazle' war of will not be curialled, their position man Church will gradually come to placed by the Swastika, the 'image common struggle.

in the State not altered,"

represent, the Fire-Spirit, the Hero of the Crucifixion by pictures of thự

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