The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-10

 into our hands was Dickens Chds History of Eng iand
 First William the Norman
 Then William his son,
 Then Henry, Stephen Henry, Richard and John After had finished that retraced our steps and read lot about Runnymede. Certainly there heroic note about one of the Henrys whom the greatest press agent of all time made to say at the siege of Harfleur,
 "Once more into breach dear friends once
 more,
 "Or fill the wall up with English dead"
 And again, because we wanted so much to believe in the English people who gave us our language and our institutions, we thrilled heard of the in- dcmitable courage of the English longbow at Crecy Poitiers and Agincourt.
 Once upon a time man named Drake play ing at bowls on the green at Plymouth when the spanish armada went forth to war, never to return
 And while speaking of the England that used to be we of the older generation who in general Anglophiles, felt there dearth of manhood at the Black Hole of Calcutta, the siege of Lucknow, the battle of Baacava the sticken fields of Ypres.
 The examples increase and multiply out of all bounds.
 There limit to the hardihood of the English we used to believe in. On land with Marlborough and Wellington, at with Sir Richard Grenville and Lord Nelson the general effect of their perform ance such to stir the most sluggish blood and to revive the classic illustrations of mans uncon-
 
 After the end of the World War, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Wilson, principally, made the peace treaty, the vctors since immemorial time have been accustomed to do. The terms, regard them in the light of history, unduly hard on the vanqushed, but the fact is that they wrote the Treaty of Versailles.
 Since then in contravention of the purport if not the letter of the peace terms
 Hitler seized the Rhineland.
 Hitler rearmed the reich.
 Hitler grabbed Austria.
 Mussolini helped himself to Ethiopia Japan acquired Manchoukuo.
 And now, with the aid and comfort of those two great examples of democracy, France and England Hitler achieves the dismemberment of CzechoSovakia He is on his way down the Danube
 And what of the great British Empire? Where is the voice of thunder with which it used to speak? What has become of the British lions roar? Alas where the woodbne twineth And yet if it should depart from utterly, a great light would have left the world
 According to a story widely circulated throughout the English speaking world the political group which rules Britannia and which consented to the be- trayal of Englands godchild Czechoslovaka weekend at country place called Cliveden. Irony of ironies Lord Give with a handful of men and less gun- powder, conquered India and more than any other mortal helped to build up the British imperial idea Now they blaspheme his name to whttle the idea away.
 years to despair and of England. More than century ago Wordsworth said it best in hi sonnet Milton
 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
 England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar sword and pen, I Preside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower
 Have forfeited their ancient English dover
 Of inward happiness We selfish
 O! raise up up return us again
 And give us manners virtue, freedom power"