The Winslow mail., 1914-09-19
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public affairs The ostensible govern
ments OF the world in the twentieth
century We're following in the wake of
the ostensibe religions They were
easing to command the services Of
ny but second rate men. After the
/ liddle of the eighteenth century there
re no mere great ecclesiastics upon
he worlds memory; after the opening
| t the twentieth no more statesmen.
| ,verywhere one finds an energetic,
| mbitious, shOrtsighted, commonplace
| lpe III the seats of authority, blind to
e new possibilities and litigiously re
| ant upon the traditions of the past.
| Perhaps the most dangerous of those
| utworn traditions were the boundaries
the various sovereign states, and
he conception Of Il general predomi-
lnce in human affairs on the part of
Dme one particular The memory of
le empires of Rome and Alexander
luatted. an unlaid carniyorous ghost.
| the human Imagination nit bore into
le human brain like some glisly para.
ite and filled it with disordered
4oughts ond violent impulses For
lore than Il century the French system
Exhausted it's vitality in belligerent
'nvulsions. and then the infection
asSed to the German speaking peo-
les, who were the heart and center of
urope. and from them onward to the
avs Later ages were to store and
'glect the vast insane literature OF
lis obsession, the intricate treaties,
!e secret agreements, the infinite
iOwingpesSes Of the political writer
le cunning rcfusals to accept plain
.cts. the rategic devices. the tactical
aneuvers. the records of mobiliza
ms and counter notifications. 1t
ased to be credible almost as soon as
ceased TO happen, but in the very
1Wn OF the new age their state crafts
,ien sat with their historical candles
burning. and. in spite of strange new
reflections and unfamiliar lights and
shadows. still Wrangling and planning
to rearrange the maps of Europe and
the world.
1t WAS to become il matter for subtle
inquiry how far the millions of men
and women outside the world of these
specialists sympathized and agreed
with their portentiOus activities. One
school of psychologists inclined to
minimize this participation, but the
balance Of evidence goes to show that
there were massive responses to these
suggestions of the belligerent schemer
Primitive man had been fiercely com
bative animal Innumerable genera
tons had passed their lives ia tribal
warfare. and the weight of tradition,
the example of history. the ideals of
loyalty and devotion fell in easily
enough with the indictments of the in
ternational mis- hief maker. The politi
cal ideas of the common man were
picked up haphazlrd, there was prac
tically nothing in such education as he
was given that was ever intended to
fit him for citizenship as such Chat
conception only appeared, indeed, with
the development of modern state
ideas). and it was therefore a com
paratively easy matter to fill his va
cant mind Witil the sounds and fury
of exasperated suspicion and national
aggression
For example, Barnet describes the
London crowd as noisily patriotic
when presently his battalion came up
from tho depot to London to entrain
for the French frontier He tells of
children md women and lads and old
men cheering and shouting, of the
streets and rows hung with the flags
of the allied powers. of a real enthusi
asm even among the destitute and un
employed The labor bureaus were
now partially transformed into enroll
ment offices and were centers of hotly
patriotic excitement At every con
venient place upon the line on either
side of the channel tunnel there were
enthusiastic spectators, and the feel
ing in the regiment If little stiffened
and darkened by grim anticipations,
was none the less warike
But all this emotion was the tickle
notion of minds without established
eas 1t was with most of them, Bar
It says, us it was with himself. nat
raj response to collective movement
nd to martial sounds and colors and
10 eXhilarating challenge Of vague
myers And people had been so long
ppressed by the threat of and prepa-
jtion for war that its arrival came
ith an effect of positive relief
The plan of campaign of the allies
ssigned the defense of the lower
ieuse to the English. and the troop
rains were run direct from the various
British depots to the points in the Ar
lennes where they were intended to
ntrench themselves.
Most of the documents bearing upon
the campaign were destroyed during
1.-The war From the first the scheme of
1.-The allies seems to have been confused
but it is highly probable that the for
nation of an aerial park in this region
| from which attacks could be made
upon the vast industrial plant of the
lower Rhine and hanking raid
through Holland upon the German ma
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