The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-30
BRITISH WILL RESIST
B0LSABVI BCAUSEITS
EUROPEAN NJ ga LSW0RTHY
Isles Never Did Like Continen-
rz- "a . + * - y
tai Leading, Says John Gals
worthy, on American Tour.
,Poet-Author Wants sOonly Revo-
luton That Touches Hunger
for Dreams and Beauty.
by CARL SANDBURG,
N. f. A. Staff Correspondent

Il = CHICAGO.
John Galsworthy, who sailed for
England April q, is the most Ameri-
can Englishman that ever crossed the
Atlantic to tell us how to fix the
world over If fixing is in the cards
Of destiny.
Yes, an American Englishman who
understands why America went into
the war, who knows the language of
human rights and wrongs spoken by
Tom Jefferson and Abe Lincoln, who
hates secret diplomacy and the forces
that plot war in back rooms where
the people know nothing about it.
p America is difficult to understand"
said Galsworthy in his high room over
looking the blue sweep Of Lake Michi-
gan. "You have your eastern states,
the south, the far west, the middle
west-each of them section with
separate identities and traits TO un-
derstand America one must under
stand these different sections, each
one almost nation in itself in it's
people, products and expression.
The question was asked Galsworthy.
What picture does your mind form of
the probable developments in Europe
and Britain the next five years?" His
reply was:
- suppose we must all admit the
possibility of Europe turning to Boil
shevism. II Bolshevism comes to Ger
many suppose it will come to France,
too, don't you? l hardly see how
France can escape it if it takes root
in Germany. .'r
Z I'm that event, with all Europe Boil.
shevist, l rather expect a curious
change of feeling in England; You
know, England has always regarded
itself as separate from the continent.
The English might resist continental
Bolshevism just as they resisted Ma
pOleOn."
"And your, British labor men-
would they join against continental
BOlshevism?" was asked.
II think the extremist feeling in la
Dor has it's chief strength in certain
not very English districts. Speaking
in large outlines 7 would say that
the conquest Of tiu Jpe y the Bolshe-
viks would intensity al ancient feel
ing OF many Englishmen that England
is separate from the continent and
should not come under the dominion
Of continental forces"
Often GalswOrthy talks in a >tele-
gram style. He gives you ten words
and leaves you to imagine for your
self thousand words of explanation.
Once he said:
S. 81 would not advocate revolution
unless such revolution could have
the element 1 would call by a veryrbad
word-thc esthetic."
Books, dances, art, song, love, re-
ligion-a' hunger of men and women
for dreams and contemplation and
beauty-these will have to stand big
in the motif of revolution that will
interest GalswOrthy.
He was asked about remark Of
Lord Haldane, quoted in the London
Times as saying, "The wOrstsfeature
OF the present situation is that the
working classes refuse to believe any
thing we tell them" -
II should say that is probably true"
ply to the trades union leaders bat
the rank and file-yes. 1t is curl
GUS Nemesis that press which has
led the people for centuries, or at
least. decades, should come to this"
"Those British lions in bronze in
front of the Chicago art institute-we
want to ask you about them, Mr.. Gals
worthy-it has been suggested that
they are initiative and the American
buffalo, like the one on your coin, the
nickel, should be employed for dec
Orative art here"
''True, true thc~buffalo for America.
Or the cougar, your cougar is shapely,
suggestive, and American"
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