Evening star., 1939-01-10

not simply dreamt of, but prepared
and approaching.
Those who were most concerned
with what still passed for govern
ment in those days seem to have
been the least aware of the essenti-
al connection of a hundred ap-
parently divergent movements that
undermined the superficial orderli-
ness of life. Whenever, for example.
there was still definitely an organ
lied military suppression of social
adjustment, there was, what one may
describe compactly and brutally, as
Shoot the Ofncers" movement.
This was more apparent in what
were called the authoritarian COM
munlties than in those which
claimed to be democratic. But it
was by no means confined to them,
The Nazi for example had never
displayed the internal discipline of
the old German armies, and there
was clear evidence as early as 1899
that the leaders did not dare impose
TOO severe an obedience upon the
looting and raping with which the
rank and file repaid themselves
for the fatigues of warfare. The
men put their own interpretations
upon their duties and treated any
attempts to moderate their behavior
as dlsloyality to their esprit de corps.
The japanese stats and officers
again were often too manifestly
compelled and terrified men. as the
discipline of the hungry and ILL
paid hordes Of Japanese peasants
that still swarmed in China, relaxed.
BY 1899 Japan. for instance, in
China, and Italy in Spain, had
armies that the government dared
not bring home.
There was a constant repitition
of the same cycle of phases in the
experience Of the various demoral-
lied army fragments, great and
small, which were now scattered
over half the land surface of the
globe. First came INSTRUMENTATION.
shoot the officers" and lead US,
Caesar, where we want to Co."
phase of successful lawlessness,
phase of rapine; than a feeling of
isolation and fear and a great
desire to link up again to some
greater order. Bodisham and his
staff, watching the world from their
headquarters, had great maps
tagged to mark down "contrite"
troops. Most of these troops had
heard vaguely Of Rud. AS appre-
hension grew in their minds they
would usually claim that they were
new revolutionaries, Rud's men. And
the countries subjected to lawless
brigandage and themselves forced
towards counter-brigandage, found
their only hope of restoring control
in the anticipation of a world COM
mon law. They, too, claimed to be
part of the great reconstruction.
Every region. too. was now infested
with de-nationalized exiles. Their
dominant idea was to be legitimated
as some new type of citizen. There
comes phase in social dislocation
when the desire for order and
security, for peaceful living over
powers partisanship, jealousy, pos
SessiveneSs
Spy Systems Organized.
After the great naval losses In the
first year Of the War of the Ideolo-
gies and the development Of the
military deadlock in Central Amer
lea and the Old World, the strike
method assumed formidable dimen-
SiOnS both in the air forces and
among the munition workers. These
latter, as they realized their indis-
pensability, began to refuse delivery
of particular types of bombs and
other weapons whose use they con-
sidered inimical to the common in
terest. The propaganda of Bella
court had quickened the consciences
of the airmen. Everywhere the air
forces displayed a disposition to
question the decisions of the military
authorities. The roar of the planes