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British Character

DR. Ley, leader of the Labour Front, who is one of the bitterest haters of the British people, has written in a German newspaper

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is based on charity and alms. Their leaders have been educated into a degenerate, conceited, and foolhardy lordly caste.

The British, in short, are a hopeless racial mixture, decadent and ripo-for-defeat.

That is probably not Dr. Ley's real opinion. Presumably he is an educated man, cognisant of facts.

This so-called estimate of the British character may be nothing more than a piece of crude propa- canda which is served up hourly በ mabulum for the German people. The British people have become case-hardened to such abuse, and will not be unduly depressed.

They will turn with relief to another foreign estimate of British character. Professor Amorin Ferreira, a scientist of Lisbon University, has published in a prominent Portuguese news- paper his estimate of the British character.

He regrets that even the educated Portuguese have little appreciation of the British character and the British contri- bution to every aspect of Western civilisation.

The Professor speaks of the British integrity of character, and of the basis of British educa- tion, "which has so profoundly affected the world's material and spiritual development. The British people keep faith with the tradition of placing spiritual and human values before material interests."

The Professor snys other aps preciative things of the British, but that is enough to be going on with.

If they can live up to anything near to this estimate of their character, they should be thank- ful to their forefathers.

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BY

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CARL OLSSON

ERIE and silent, the Northern Lights leap across the Arctic night, weaving their endless, gigantic dance above that land where the Finns are now living a saga...

A proper background for that eple struggle.

For I remember once, as a small boy, my father telling me that the Northern Lights were really the re- flection from the Hit windows of the great banqueting hall in Valhalla, where thoso who had fallen bravely in battle for a worthy cause sat feasting,

A poetic fancy, perhaps, cuiled from remembered scraps of the old sagas, but a much better explana- tion to a child than a lot of non- sense about magnetle storms and electrical charges.

The zagas survive as an inspira- tion to the Northern peoples, And they were the first songs of democ- racy, the first spoken and written form in which was laid down its standards and spirit.

HEY were not all tales of blood and battle and

Norsa gods. Really, a saga is the life of a hero told from his birth to his death and composed for oral recitation.

But interwoven in this narrative of his life and adventures were almost always codes and precepts through which the rule of law and the knowledge of it was imposed on the minds of all men.

Both the poet and the saga- man or professional storyteller (often ond and the same) were held in highest renown among the early Norse communities.

But his reputation was governed not only by the manner of his story and the beauty of its ex- pression, but by the way in which ho could "put over" lessons for the living,

O

UT of the beginnings of Idemocracy were born the

grant sagas.

One thousand and ten years ago the Althing held its first meeting in a great volcanic cleft in south-west Iceland. Twelve mon were chosen from each of the four quarters of the land to meet and draft some common law and prin- ciples by which all would be bound.

Our jury panel, incidentally, is based on those twelve men.

They met for a reason which bears heavily on us to-day. They mot because the custom of do- eiding law by force of arms was ruining their country.

At the close of each yearly r sion of the Althing the Lawman, or chief of the assembly, an nouneed the * business dono." These matters were then embodied in the angus, and with great art

mingled with legend and myth or the life of some hero.

These aagas would be told and retold at the festivals, so that a knowledge of custom and law was preserved in the minds and hearts or all.

William Morris, one of the founders of British Socialism, spent the greater part of his literary life in translating the sagas. Ho did 50, not merely because they happen to be supremely beautiful examples of prose and verse, but 'because they were the first language of democracy,

H

ITLER, we are told, is in- terested in another

aspect of the sagas- the "blood and thunder" myths with which some of the older writers covered their main and nobler themes.

He is, it is said, very fond of the Nibelungenlied and has christened his famous West Wall after Sieg- fried, the hero of that tale.

Now the Nibelungenlied is taken from the old Norse Volsungasaga. In that story the hero Sigurd (or Siegfried) makes himself invulner- able by bathing in a pool of dragon's blood.

But if Hitler will re-read that saga be may find's disquieting moral and an omen perhaps for the future of his "Impregnabio" Siegfried Line.

For that blood-bath did not make Biegfried quite invulnerable. nor did it stave off retribution. While he was taking that famous bath, a leaf fell on his back and left a spot unprotected by the dragon's blood.

And it was there that "grim, " „Hagen's opcar got him in the end.

Anyhow, it's a

SAFETY VALVE

by Stuart Fletcher

RITISH freedom is a strange and peculiar thing. I recently spent the best part of a day in Hyde Park, where a large num- ber of men and women stood on portable wooden platforms and uttered for hours on end statements that in many coun- tries of the present-day world would have been an immediate passport to prison.

If these passionately earnest people had been offering amuse- ment in the form of betting slips, acceptable warmth in the form of alcoholic beverages, flattery by soliciting alms, or even seiling penny postage stamps, they would have been promptly arrested.

As they were morely under- mining the British Constitution, distorting the nation's established religion of Churchianity, uttering high treason, no Interfered with them.

and one

Every kind of horesy poured from the rostruma among the crowd of somo hundreds ilsteners.

of

The safety valvo was wide operi, for British freedom consists of the knowledge by the authorities that a boller, ovon when it la boiling with rago, is unlikely to burst if it can lot off steam.

"I am an Irishman. Why should I fight for the Jowa? Why should I lose my life and go to heaven to play on a Jew's harp? "

"No statesman has over intended that there should be peace. States- men's jobs depend on war."

"My sympathies are with Hitler." "What so are the bishops in

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their gilded palaces? You need Abraham! Can you leave Abraham. out of your life?”

It is an extraordinary scene, a remarkable medley of sounds.. An astrologist with a nose that. flames like Mars in the ascendant. tella a gathering of twenty that. nine years ago the stars foretold. Russia's move into Finland.

Four grey-headed Salvationists. interrupt their prescher with a. sudden outburst of costátic hymun- singing. Lifting their peaked caps. from their grizzled heads they cry: "Bicsa

Saviour, bless me

now!

A middle-aged woman with an American accent presses a pam-- phlet about the Great Pyramid into my hand. "It is free," she twangs. "All the best things are free, but. J'have to have a sclentine mind to understand it."

You can half close your eyes and Imagine yourself at a gathering of some primitive people as the voices rise and fall, shrick and wall, in. the twilight, as the tribal super- sillions aro expounded with: snatches of song and brandishing. of arms.

Some of the speakers are cranks, some are politicians-possibly the same thing. All have enormous conviction, and each one is up to the moment in the application of his doctrines.

The End-of-the-Worlders, the Astrologist, the Catholic, the Com- munist, the Anti-Jew, the Down with Imperialism man, the Pyra- midist, the man in the crowd who has an attractive scheme for human hibernation, all of them revolve their theories and their panaccas round Hitler and Churchill, Stalin and Mussolini,.. the British Navy and the Balkana.

"You have no freedom, you: misorabló alaves)” yells a voice over the heads of the crowd to- wards the Marble Arch.

"Then how is it that you're up there saying so?" retorts the hockler.

Arhi yells back the speaker, and pauses melodramatically. They let mo stay up here so as you'll think you're free, you poor The crowd laughs delightedly. It is getting dark. The British- Isrnolito's voice booms prophotic- ally through the gloom. "The British Navy," he says impressively, "to undoubtedly the ships of Tarshish' mentioned in Isaiah, the aixtieth chapter and the ninth verso."

He clinches his argument. "That is why our sailors

known as Jack Tarsi"

Hitler is only the eruption of the social conditions caused by the greed of British. Imperialism]." rings out a louder challenge.

Treason's in season in Hyde Park i after dark.