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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 ripe for defeat

That is probably not Dr. Ley's real opinion. Prasumably 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 ganda which is served up hourly 48 pabulum 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.

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Like the sagas of old

BY

CARL

ERIE and silent, the Northern Lights Icap across the Arctic night, *** Weaving their endless, gigantic danco above that land where the Finns are now living

a saga...

A proper background for that ople struggle,

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

A poetic fancy, perhaps, culled from remembered soraps of the old Bagas, but a much better explana- tion to a child than a lot of non- senso about magnetic storms and electrical charges.

The angas 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,

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"HEY were not all tales of blood and battle and the doings of fantastic Norse 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. тал or professional storyteller (often one 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 cx- pression, but by the way in which ho could "put over" lessons for the living.

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DT of the beginnings of democracy were born the great asgas,

ago the Althing held its frat moeting in a great volcanic cleft in south-west Iceland. Twelve men were chosen from each of the four quarters of the land to mest, and draft some common law and prin- ciples by which all would be bound.

The Professor speaks of the One thousand and ten years 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 says other ap- preciative things, of the British, but that is enough to he going on with,

If they can live up to anything near to this estimate of their

ZORGY PAGO PAGOON character, they should be thank-

ful to their forefathers."-"

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

They met for a reason which benra honvily on us to-day. They mat because the custom of de- elding law by force of arms was ruining their country,

At the close of each yearly s05- sion of the Althing the Lawman, or chief of the assembly, an- nounced tho busincas done." These matters were then embodied in the sagas, and with great art

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

These sagoa, would be told and retold at the fentivals, so that a knowledge of custom and law was preserved in the minds and hearts

of all,

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

* YTLER; we are told;is in- terested in another aspect of the sugas- blood and thunder" myths which some of the older writers covered their main and nobler themes,

the with

He 15, It is said, very fond of the Nibelungenlled and has christened his famous West Wall after Sick- fried, the hero of that tale.

Now the Nibelungenlled is taken from the old Norse Volsungasaga. In that story the hero Sigurd for Biegfried) makės himself invulner- able by bathing in a pool of dragon's blood.

But if Xitter will ro-read that saga ho may find a disquieting moral and an omen perhaps for the future of his "Impregnable" Biegfried Lino.

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

And it was there that "grim ” Hagen's spear got him in the end,

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Anyhow, it's a

SAFETY VALVE

by Stuart Fletcher

RITISH

It is an extraordinary scene, a remarkable medley of sounds. An astrologist with a nose that flames like Mara in the ascendant

freedom is a their gilded palaces? You need and strango

pecullar, Abrahami Can you leave Abraham thing. I recently spent out of your life?" 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 carnest people had been offering amuso- ment in the form of betting allps, acceptable warmth in the form of alcoholic beverages, flattery by soliciting aims," or "even" solling" Denny postage stamps,

have been promptly arrested.""ald

As they were merely under- mining the British Constitution, distorting the nation's established ⚫ religion of Churchianity, and uttering high treason, no ORO interfered with them.

Every kind of heresy poured from the rostruma among the crowd of SOMO hundreds of listeners.

The safety valve was wide open, for British freedom consists of the knowledge by the authorities that a boiler, even when it is belling with rage, is unlikely to burat if it can let off steam.

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

"No statesman has over intended that there should be peace, Blates- men's joba depand on war."!

"My sympathica are with Hitler." "What use are the Bishops in

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"I just know I'm going to be an old mald-285,000

passenger air mítos and not a singlo proposal!"

tells

a gathering of twenty that nine years ago the stars foretold Russia's move into Finland.

Four grey-headed Salvationists Interrupt their preacher with a sudden outburst of ecstatic hymn-

singing. Lifting their peaked caps from their grizzled heads they cry: "Bless mo, Saviour, bless me now!

A middle-aged woman with ar 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- y'have to have a scientific mind to understand it."

You can hall close your eyes and imagine yourself at a gathering of some

me primitive people as the volces rise and fall, shriek and wall, im the twilight, as the tribal super- stitions 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 Pyro- midist, the man in the crowd who has an attractive scheme for human hibernation, all of them: revolve their theorles and their panaceas round Hitlor and! Churchill, Stalin and Mussolini, the British Navy and the Balkans.

"You have no freedom, you miserable slavesi" yells a volca over the heads of the crowd to- wards the Marble Arch.

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

"Arhi" yells back the speaker, 'and

pauses melodramatically. "They let me stay up here so is you'll think you're free, you poor-

BAP TOWwd laughs delightedly,

It is getting dark. The British- Israelito's voice booms prophetic- ally through the gloom. "The British Navy," he says impressively, "is undoubtedly the ships of Tarshish mentioned in Isaiah, the sixtieth chapter and the ninth verso."

He clinches his argument."

That.

is why our sailors are known as Jack Tarsi"

"Hitler, la only the eruption of the social conditions caused by the greed of British Imperiallāmi ”~ rings out a louder challonge.

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