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"Stalin's reckless words to the British M.PS about" bis wish to co-operate with the Western democracies, coming, just after what the other Soviet boys "have been saying, may lead to his being, punged

as a warmongering counter-revolutionary

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BY ERIC BENNETT

STANDING in the lofty 18th-century hall of

Trafalgar House, al Downtown, near Salis- bury, recently, diminutive, bearded 87-year-old Earl Nelson said to me: "It is a wrench to part with it all, but what else can we do?"

"All" includes the magmleent 80-roomed mansion which was presented to the Nelson family by the nation, the 3,500 seres estate, and a mass of Nelson relics of in- calculable value.

As the 142nd anniversary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar was being celebrated, appeals were made to save Trainigar House for the nation,

If the campaign fails the house which echoes to the ory of Britain's greatest sailor will fall to the highrist bidder.

Homeless relics

And with it may have to go the Nelson protraita and bust, the admiral's telescope, his pistols, the chair on which he sat in HMS Victory, and hundreds of other historie relles which will be left without a home,

For Lord Nelson, the fifth earl, who succeeded his brother in the title in September, told me: "The estate has been run at a loss for years. My ball!ff has told me that he would need another £10,000 a year to keep it going ns it should be kept-and we simply have not got

He smiled, and added: "Excuse my clothes-I havề Rot only two suits now, and this is my working one."

Viscount Trafalgar, 67-year-old heir to the earldom, fold me: "The £5,000-a-year Nelson pension, which is wort's only about £2,000 after taxes have been paid, will cease when my father dies, There is no alternative to selling.

THE WAR AGAINST

THOSE of us who remem-

bered the aftermath of the first world war knew. that the years following the Hitler war would be hard,

and been

The science of human material destruction had developed to such efficiency that the conclusion of hostilities was bound to leave Europe in sumi-chaos, with a consequent psychological barrier between the old world and the unscarred continent of North America.

Yet we thought that with the lessons of the years after the Kaiser's war we would not com- mit the same mistakes.

The nations had bought ex- perience at a bitter price in the period that followed 1918, and it was not credible that no les- sons had been learned.

WORLD TODAY

An assessment

The truth remains, however, that the world is in a far worse condition today than it was in 1920.

Who is there, no matter how optimistic, who can

say that these five statements are not a true assessment of the story of mankind in the year 1947?

1-In-two world wars we

SAW the dull, sordid Ages cruelty of the Dark superseded by a

scientific

savagery which destroyed

the souls of the wicked and the bodies of the help- less.

2 Great advance

SVZH

made in the healing sciences, but nothing com- parable to the development of weapons for taking life.

3

There was a splendid and heroic battle by the civilised peoples of the world against the new bar- barians, but when the threat of war WAS Kone the unity of the victorious nations censed to exist.

4

In a world where some nations were over-pra- ducers and others were under-consumers, the wit of man failed to create the means of distribution.

5 Even victory did not end the growing in- difference to the teachings of God, or curb the in- creasing materialistic wor- ship of the State.

Recently, I sat with a book on a hill overlooking the sea. The fields behind were rich with corn and the trees were inden with fruit.

The good earth has not turn- ed against it's masters nor does the sun bargain for its services, The only enemy of man is man, That is as true today as when our forebears lived in caves. '.

REJECT GOD

The Kremlin faith

CHRIST

by

BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

In effect, they destroyed the cathedral and exalted the fac- tory.

It is not accepted that man was created in the image of God or that the body is holy be cause it is the temple of the spirit.

Their

only religion is materialism. stark, uncom- materialism, and promising their is no mercy for the non- believers within their sphere of influence. But it must not be thought that this philosophy was conceived in the November re- volution.

Voltaire's savage ridicule of the Church helped to inaugurate the era of pure reason which culminated in the French volution.

Re-

to

Machiavelli was the tutor Musgolini. Bismarck, with his

It comes from the West there Is sill a hope that Chelstan civilisation

will survive,

The latter cannot be accomplished by idealism alone, but it cannot be accomplished without It. Common sense and common decency alike de- mand that we recognise the truth of

those words.

Otherwise we shall be the falter ing unintending allies of those who

the conducting

against Christ.

are

War

"We offered the house to the Ad- miralty as a naval rest home or for a training establishment, and if they had male a fair offer we would have presented the relics free,

'No use for it

"But after Lord Hall, the First Lord, had inspected it, the Admiralty sat they could not use Trafalgar House."

Loid Trafalgar took me through She cannot accept imports which room after room crowded with pos will balance her vast exports, but sessions of Admiral Land Nelson. na a creditor nation she can learn His uniforms and nedals, hla guns

from Canada, whose practical and his wine glasses, the furniture generosity towards Britain during from his cabin, Billed the house. the way and since hinn been 0.5 warming as the sun..

In ordinary life there is a growing recognition that, poverty should not exist in the midst of plenty.

should be the alm of every within its own fronticis.

telescopes- One of tl service

the one he which may have been

eye" at the "clapped

his sightless Battle of Copenhagen was lying

lo his

near an enchanting watercolour

of

Since the destruction of wealth is Lady Hamilton by Romsey's batties, meaningless and proless, the alter- Portraits of Nelson, of his native is to destroy poverty. That of his ancestors, looked down on the nation chair

in wi

which he rested before he went

up to the quarter deck of the Victory

m October 21, 1805. Glass cases hold the seat he used of nations. If Western civilisation in at Copenhagen, the rings he wore,

But if that applies to It is just as true of the

to communities community

to survive it cannot do so on a basis of half rich and half bankrupt.

Therefore there is a dual respon- sibility for America and Britain the two great pillars of democracy.

America, the supreme creditor and banker, must help other countries to trade develop their resources and until the raising of their standard prosper of living enables them to and to absorb American imports without becoming slaves to the American dollar. We, on our part, mus! cultivate our garden, the Eas mighty Empire of nations which twice saved the world frem slavery. so we shall regain our la doing America

strength and help to the recovery of the whole world.

U.S. PRICE

Disruption of Empire

1 is hard to write of without rerming ungrateful sycophantic, but it is time that spoke what is in our minds,

.or we

The impulse behind the American were harsh.

Lan wad generous, but the terms

Then, and only then, will Christ- edom be able to check and turn x the godless materialism ol Cmmunism.

It is difficult to

mix

reonomics

even locks of his hair.

"When we sell up, my father plans to take a small house at the seaside," Lord Trafalgar said. "I shall settle down somewhere near here and keep a fow cows and hens."

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“Candidus” From the time that America en- with religion, without incurring the

THAT the Press misleads G tored the war we fought side by side charge of insincerity, but I deeply "TA Public was recently with the understanding that there are that until we turn again to the subject of a debate at the would be equality of sacrifice. Luase- the sermon on the Mount we shall YMCA. The proposer asked: Land was an expression of that, and it lead ourselves out of the dark-Why is it that different papers

it dignifled the whole serdid business of war.

Yet there could be no real equality creed of force, made Hitler's of Sacrifice, for we were net only

being bombed Germany inevitable.

but impoverished. while America was iminune from

ness.

THE TEST

print different versions of the same news, when what they are supposed to do is to print the Do we accept, or not?

Citing what he termed fncts."

pro- The war against Christ never attack and was being enriched.

Even if we look on Christ's words the "recent anti-Russian stops.

One of the reasons why the 1945 ion of political philosophy for the the reports represented

as no more than an inspired expres-paganda," the speaker asked if His life and His teachings at it brought an ideological clash Europe there would be today if Ger-

government of man, what a different biased views, and went on

they have always been a challenge between the USA. ad cars even out glibly allege that what to every despot and every but even so, America shoutd act are blessed because they shall obtain (presumably

tyranny.

General Election was a disaster was

war to peace production

mercy.

un-

to

ΟΡ

the newspapers) have unded Lease-Lend until we had

were trying to do was to get the rompleted our change-over from That is why Nazism, Fascism

What a different world it would people to go to war.

The Press can only mislead the Pave been after the first world war and Communism proclaimed the It is true that the lean followed.

Public when it Is controlled gospel of materialism as the and, wisely used, it could have done debts had been forgiven.

muzzled by any particular political case of Germany highest expression of man's put us on our feet, but why

How changed the picture would be se-up, as in the should America have demusided as

day if Russia would believe that prior to the lust war, or, as far us destiny. Selalism, though less her price the venomis disruption of the

i can gather, in the case of Russin peacemakers are blessed and blatant, also works towards the the Emp

Democracy insists upon an be called the children of God. today. The extent to which the world hus unfettered Press. lessening of man's stature and derfingre and the avertibility of man's divinity.

In all these political creeds it is the State which is deified.

TRADE CHAIN

Built up by Russia But why is Russia making" progress?

Because she is binding the satellite countries in her with a ruthles dis- regard of human berly and elementary justice, rewarding the

while sycophant

imprisoning executing these who stand in way.

or

her:

But Russia is not so foolish as to holleve that creating fear is enough. She is building up the economic life of the nations which are chained to

her.

No wonder Moscow laughs at the spectacle of the Western Powers, the great free democracies, bargaining and haggling over the problems mutual aid and multilateral trade.

of

Politicians have talked of the

· Unlied States of Europe for moro than 30 years, but Russia is creating an Eastern Customs Union while the democracies talk.

the

Whother we like it or not

Let us be perfectly blunt. leadership of the world is going to "The one nation that is making come from the East or the West, for progress today is Russia.

the Isolationism of the U.S.S.R. has the killed the United Nations as isolationism of the U.S.A. killed the

· Lengue of Nations.

The Bolsheviks in their re- volution set out to end what they denounced as the supersti- tious worship of God, and to If world leadership comes. from substitute for it the worship of the Eart then we shall have a cen- tury ot Communist codless materiallam..

the State.

America should not have asited such terms, but equally they should not have been accepted by the British Government or the British Parlia- ment, including: those of my own party who failed to vote against it, America's position is not a simple

one.

cepted Christ's teachings is the The main news of the day is that mere of human progress: the ex-

conveying actual words ut.ered by int to which It has departed from leading international spokesmen, and them marks man's decline and fall.

no

newspaper In a tree country would be sa foolish as to distort or The war gainst Christ never

spoken word. A news- vary the stops, and it does not permit of paper has a right

(in democratic neutrals.

countries) to expound Its own parti- cular beliefs

or views, or to criticise any person

country. or

"We're through! And you can toko back all your old love letters !*

Even

editorlat views, as distinct from

news, do not deal in terminological inexactitudes.

To complain about the world-wide criticism which is appearing against Russia-and which must continue to i appear while such unfortunate and continue to unfriendly utterances emanate from Molotov-way not

malce. convincing point

THE speakter, claimed that

THE

the

average man, when he disagreed with the editorial policy of a news- another with paper, looked for which he did agree. A reasonable Resumption in countries where news- papers are free to express Indepen- dent views! Ite contradicted him- soll, however, by also asserting that no man had enough lelsure to read more than one newspaper a day and was therefore Influenced by that paper!

There remains the undeniable fact that the Public, in every democratic country is free to express its views through the medium of the Press, that so many the only pity being people fall to make use of the finest and most honest medium for public discussion and the free interchange of constructive opinion,

The Press is both educativo and informative. Far from being a war mongering institution, it has given the greatest publicity to the horrors fot war, and remains still the greatest

force which can shape and guide; public opinion towards yeace,;

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