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SOCIAL SECURITY IS WAR AIM

Labour Minister Speaks Out

"I AM sometimes asked 'What are your war aims?' My war aims are summed up in the phrase: The motive of our life should be social security.”

This declaration was made by Mr Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, at a Rotary Club luncheon in London.

The

To Benefit All

"I think the time has come when we should not be led into

"That does not mean that all profits! the mistakes we made in the

or surpluses would be wiped out, but last war of merely indulging it does mean that the whole of your organisation, in high flown platitudes about

Anance, economy, homes for heroes and things of selence and everything, would be that kind simply to stimulate directed together to social security, not for a small middle class or for the people," he said.

those who may be more possessors "Now is the time when thoughtful of property, but for the community people ought to be considering the

greatest social implication real social implications of the wor.

"After the last war there was a arising out of this war was the effort fallure to recognise that it was to get rid of that horrible queue outside the inbour exchanges, Mr largely, as Indeed this one is, (1

Bevin kald. great civil war, which must deter you have to stop that or stop the mine whether we are to be ruled whole educational system. Better from the top or must have govern-

leave the masses unlaught than give ment responsible to the people.

them a double appelite, both of "The last 20 years has demon stomach and head, then not satisfy strated that security cannot be at either. lained by arms. It can only be at-

"I am afraid that at the end of tained by the enthronement of power this war, unless the community is with the people.

seized with the importance of this, "Immediately power is taken from you may well slip into the most re- the people and given to a ruler at volutionary action-though I don't the top or a military oligarchy then mind revolutions if they aro well security vanishes.

Back To Disorder

"Unemployment has been the devil that has driven masses in large areas of the world to turn to dictators.

"You cannot have social security on the basis of the present economic order.

"We have been taught that the only motive for energy, production and enterprise la profit.

directed.

•

Answer To Hitler

"What I am horrified at is a blind revolution of starving men that is undirected and that ends in disaster for the whole community.

"You have got to offer

new

feeling of hope, and example is

better than precept.

"If this old country would begin to shape and direct it now and be- xin to weave It Into Its own economic life while the present struggle is going on, that would be the best answer to Her.

"It profit can be the only motive the natural corollary is economie disorder, and that will bring you back to the same position as you are "I feci in my very bones that In now, ever recurring.

somehow things enn never be as they "I want to give you the new motive were.

for industry and for life.

"A new age hos to be built, and

CREAK

FREE MEN can Always Beat SLAVES

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HAT sort of war is this? Aftor more than a year's fighting we might still have no answer to this question when wo look at the ruins of a battered East London street and think that a glittering metal machine, marvel of all modern solence, had to fly hundreds of miles to de- stroy a London workman's little brick house.

And, however carefully our own men alm at milltary targets, there must be something of this sort on the other side, too,

So is this a war of faiths, or of men in machines dealing out death haphazardly to chemies they never 6007

FREE MEN

Tom Wintringham, that refresh- ing and unorthodox writer on mili- tary subjects whom many knew as Commander of the British Battalion which helped to throw back Franco's Moors in 1930 in the "Miracle of Madrid," has written a book" which would surely help the ordinary reader over his doubts,

From a wide sweep of military history he draws tho encouraging conclusion that though tyrants at the head of vast armies of drilled- slave-soldiers may set up their short-lived power, they are finally always overthrown by men trained to think for themselves as Indivi- duala and inspired by love of free- dom to the "laughing, energy-in-. toxicated, careless feats of courage that in time of defeat win battles," (Think of Dunkirk!)

PROOF

became the citizen army of the French Revolution; to the inspired defence of Madrid in our own days.

BACK IN 1918

But Wintringham's most impor- tant chapter is that which decals with the men of the British Tank Corps.

Wintringham's who, in opinion, really won the war of 1018,

The Nazis claim that the German armies were never beater in 1018. And one thing is true: the blows suffered by the Allies in spring and early summer, 1018, were probably no less than those answering Allied attacks before which the Kaiser's drilled army broke and collapsed.

OUR HOPE

But what happened on the British side?. The tanks. new weapons, manned by men, as Win- tringham says, from "among the highest-grade personnel of the engineering and allied trades," by "the cream of the British working-

cinsa.

These men. "laughing about battles while they attended to the oiling of a gun-swivel or saw to a sprocket," went into action and, out of the worst defeat, smashed the way to victory::

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And from these men, not barmack- drilled, but trained to think, we should

When Wintrin

When Wintringham finished his book, the free volunteers of Britain's Home quard were digging pits against the coming of German tanks, and it scented like a war of men aguinst machinea,

WHAT OF TO-DAY? Today, in the great air-bombing battles, it may at times seem like a war Bur of machines against machines. machines do not deelde; both sides can produce machines.

The decision must be won by the or

-suggest-that-at-the-end-of-this-what-greater-contribution-can-wa.pay-diehards may deny this But Win-dinary people of London and Britain.

war, and indeed during the war, we to those who are suffering at the accept social security as the main moment than to say that this time motive of all our national life. it is really not in vain?"

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tringham shows us how a handful of Grecks, reared in freedom, over- came a Persian king'a millions.

He shows how the Roman slave Spartacus almost overthrew the power of Rome with a force of slaves practically unarmed yet Bghting for freedom,

Ho shows how the free, quick thinking English yeomen routed the armoured French knights with their "doctrinaire" feudal milltary rates, And so to modern struggles, to Washington's straggling gang in bad boots" who yet won a free America from professional German soldiers: to another rabble which

LEAVING Shakespeare's

Moon out of a radio

adaptation of "Pyramus and Thisbe" produced a barrel of fun and lively discussion among educators at the Fourth Annual School Broadcast Con- ference in Chicago recently.

"Wind" lind been left in. "Hot- tam's" voice from the radio had proclaimed:

"We present the Wind."

And Wind had howled Indus- triously. But "Moon"-not a word was sold about him. And how, demanded indignant school leaders in a discussion from the floor, could you properly tell a love story, especially this love story of Shakespeare's, without mentioning Moonlight why, the Moon7 -everyone knew the world over that moonlight JA associated with

violence

being "love." Wasn't done to Shakespeare?

"Shakespeare was kidding the stage of his day," defended Erik Barnouw of Columbia University, who wrote the script for the radio adaptation. "Pyramus and This- be' was a satire."

The lowling of Wind, declared Mr Burnouw, fitted perfectly the buffoonery "of the other players. You couldn't put Moon's lantern

on whose power to resist the severest bombing victory depends-and by bun- dreds and thousands of ordinary British skilled and unskilled workmen on whose brains and endurance depends our ability to out-arm the Nazi Empire.

FAITH WILL WIN

Ant such power and endurance can only coine if the ordinary people are in- spired by faith in freedom. Wintsing-- ham shows this; the lesson of France underlines 11: it is for the British Gov ernment not to lose sight of it during this long winter ahead.

T. R. FYVEI

** Armies of Freedom" (Labour Book Service), 23. Cu.

January 30, 1941.

By Walt Disney

'Messages' From Sir Oliver Lodge

UNDER conditions of complete

secrecy, the greatest investiga- tion into after-life is going on at the London headquarters of the Society for Psychical Research.

Locked up in their safe is the the sealed envelope containing "lest" message left with them by Sir Oliver Lödge, famous scientist and spiritualist, before his death.

They are now receiving frequent messages from mediums who claim that they have been in touch with the dead scientist.

Their evidence is being fled un- opened with the "test" message. On a date yet to be fixed the en- the velopes will be opened and messages compared.

been

An offelal of the society admitted that messagès, claimed to have from Sir Oliver, hnd been received, but refused to comment on them.

"A special procedure aiming at glving the greatest possible value to the Lost is being followed out," she said. "Evidence is being as- sembled but it will not be enade known until the 'test' message is opened.

"The date has not yet been fixed, but it will not be for a con- siderable time yet."

Commenting on the fact that spiritualista were claiming to have trade contact with Sir Oliver Lodge, an offelal of the Maryle-. bone Spiritualist Association--one of the largest in the country---sald that a flood of messages purport- ing to be from Sir Oliver whs to be expected,

ORDINARY

"Mediums are only human be Ings," he said, "and frequently very ordinary human beings.

"Messages which they receive they are inclined to link with Things that are uppermost in their minds or with public figures like Sir Oilver.

"The same thing happened after the death of Sir Arthur Conun Doyle."

Sir Oliver himself claimed many times to have communicated with his dend wife and son Raymond- killed in the last war-and his book on this theme caused one of the

greatest sensations in scientl- fe circles,

In this book he published the "messages" he had received from his wife and son.

Of his own "test" he said before he died: "I shall try to give a message: But it might take os long as a year. I shall not get anything in a hurry."

wanted to show what could

MUCH ADO done.

ABOUT

THE MOON

on the radio. How could you bring Moon in? Besides, Wind made a beautiful sound very horrific. Moon was colourless, by compari-

son.

A Moon defender jumped up. "Just let Moon say his lines. That would tell listeners enough."

Moon-love. Wind? Hmmpt, And sp a vate was taken. But after all-school administra- teachers superintendents, tors, have a good bit of small boy and girl in them still, as you shall see. "Wind" did make a lovely sound on the radio. Ho fairly made you

And-in shivery

.the voting "Wind" wort.

The radio programane followe) a stage présentation of "Pyramus and Thisbe," to show the changes needed to translate a play from the school stage to radio. "Pyramus and Thisbo" presented particular- ly dimeult problems and for that renson Me Barnouw chose it. He

bc

As Shakespeare had it, you'll re- member, there was concern about "Lion's" roaring and frightening the Duke's ladies. On the radio, it was said, with good-natured tun In Shakespeare's own veln:

"Will not the children be afeerd of the lion? I tell you the chil- dren will not sleep after heating it."

"Well, we'll have an announce- ment, and the announcement will say it is not a lion."

At the end of the play, as the Duke started to leave, Bolton km- plored him to wait for the epilogue, and the Duke alrity replied:

"Never listen to the very

end

of the programme. It is certain to

some commercial contain nouncements."

Faithful to the letter of the in- tent of the author, or faithful in catching the spirit of the author's intent and translating it in terms of the radio medium-those are the two schools of thought in adapting material for the radio, sald Wynn Wright of the National Broadcast- ing company, who directed the play.

Well-Moon or Wind? Moon and

I Wind?.

Lun WOS

anyway. Shakespeare would have liked it.

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