Evening star., 1939-01-05

was to put the fermenting new red
wine Of popular discomfort, popu-
lar discomfort and resentment land
popular behavior in the midlands
and the North was certainly be-
coming very serious), International
ism, collectivism and all those gath
ering horrors, back into the brave
old bottles Of the established order
in his own way. But he must
have free hand. He must not be
prevented. Admittedly he was q
clever fellow. He conceded that,
but all the same, he intimated, they
must not embarrass him. They must
not attempt to tell him. He began
in fact where most labor politi-
clans leave off.
Patriotic Englishman.
He let it be tacitly assumed that
fundamentally he was sound, pa
triotic Englishman and that, in spite
of current difficulties, he regarded
the staggering Empire, the inert
monarchy, the Anglican Church
the Anglican country house, as the
lovely and eternal framework of
the perfect life. Beyond this frame
mankind could progress no further
until q thoroughly Anglican Last
Day inaugurated an unending An
glican season in Heaven. with the
Holy Family playing very tactfully,
the part of super-Royalty. Since
they could imagine nothing bet
ter, he let it be assumed that he
could imagine nothing better.
He had remarkably little difficulty
in establishing the fundamental re-
spectability Of his intentions. He
realized with the profoundest aston
ishment that a tacit assumption Of
his Anglicanism was made for him,
that 1t was incredible to most of
these influential people that man
could be a born Englishman and
still not entertain the completest
love and admiration for Anglican
ism. He discovered that even the
Jews, atheists and Roman Catholics
of Britain are fundamentally Angli-
can. And there was no question Of
the entire conformity of the modern
nonconformist So after all, consid-
ering their immense assimilative
power, why should they question
him?
No one in the world Of influence
asked him what he thought about
the established institutions of his
native land. and so he told them no
lies. They had no suspicion of the
fundamental resentments in his ma
ture. They didn't perceive that his
scowl was an expression. That he
regarded the whole British system
as incurably decayed. a crumbling
unteachable system of complex and
exasperating appropriations and re-
sistances, and that 1t was the dear
est ambition of his black little heart
to see 1t wiped out of existence as
soon as possible and replaced by an
Anglo-American synthesis with q
cosmopolitan trend, remained an
undisclosed aspect of his program.
zone thing at time" said Rud to
his council.
Badly Out Of Touch.
"Of course" he said at a lunch
party to which he had been invited
by Lady Dragnet, now that we are
one days journey from America, we
must talk just little more Ameri-
can than we did" (That was the
stuff to give them). Frankly,
think we are getting badly out OF
touch with mass opinion over there
eyes, but suppose you have made
a mistake and put your money on
the wrong horse. Suppose this re-
crudescence Of aggressive big bust
ness over there isn't sound. (You
know what Americans are) Isn't II
well to have strong popular move
ment in England in touch with the
American labor side?"
Something in that, they thought
II could make just those contacts
ut has always been part of the
strength of England to have a
strong opposition" he explained. CSC
that when we have got ourselves into
a complete mess-as think, If you'll
forgive me, the government is doing
now-we've always had an opposi-
tion formula to fall back upon. That
we can say, is what we meant al
along. That has been our peculiar
advantage, a natural, unpremedi-
tated, providential two-facedness
Sometimes foreigners have thought