Evening star., 1941-09-28

LONDON.- "A ulLIe .iHolt CiioAi WV
wars aco I was in Sweden studying the
blue s--,:s-ti.ia mentality, and my oo-
so,.,.7 +:c,,5 LIT NE in little doubt about
the tr.c quality of the Mannerhelm re-
c'mc il finland. I got by train ana air
to A~1-scrdam: the plane by which L
Travelled VS. SHOT up day or SO later
bv III pane from Hcligoland and one
pc~scn~-c w'15 killed
s.-ot IN uncertain week in Amster-
d. He.Cre I cot aboard the last OF the
Dutch steamers to come to Tlbury; ana
- y.p ccne into the Thames we passed
? r-cct ccnvcy gcing out and saw the
l-st of the aircraft carrier Courageous,
which ' $ tcrDedoed that evening.
Like countless civilized people. l was
in a mood c. intense evaporation al
th;; second Gi3location Of the worlds
9-3irs and iniuriated with the collective
f,e5,e-mindedness and lack OF foresight
that had allowed it to occur. l remember.
With a family amused shame, how oS-
pos-d l vas to be angry and rude ABOUT
the necessarily improvised snd lne@-
pcYienced passport control at llloury,
which had been totally unprepared Tor
o,lr bo2t's arrival, and how deeply l re-
s-Y4od the fact that we had to go with
CT food CT drin': until we got to Lon
CT I s',culd have remembered that
mot OF thee officials were doing their
usmcs. ard I should have kept all that
en--r for the stupid and self-satlstled
peop.e high up at Westminster and else
vhc~s in the governments OF the world
Who we're ultimately responsible for this
r,oGGonin. confusion. And it has taken
me- and no end of other people, the best
pert Cf two years to realize the 1utlIty
of cucrrelinC with men under orders.
GO for the hs"d men at once ana get
rid of them" is. suggest, one OF the flrst
lessons We have to extract from these
most diea agreeable years behind us.
Held to Warfare.
have been writing in q detached ana
speculative spirit about the treno OF
human affairs from my Time Machine
in 1893 onward: l was forecasting the fu-
ture of war in my "Anticlpatons III
1000. in the Land Ironclads' of 1903 and
the War in the An" in 1908; but 1t is
only now. since this war began, that, III
common with most mentally active peo-
ple I find my nose held down, remorse-
lesslv and without respite, to the prob
lens of warfare. 1 realize that this time
the issues are vital and final. ThlS Is not
a professional soldiers war; 1t is every
bodv's war. Our whole world is IN dam
ger and if we do not think out the prob
lens of this struggle there will presently
be nothing else for us worth thinking
about.
We are only now beginning to realize
the profound difference in nature be-
tween this war and that of l9l4-lS. That
could be fairly described as war be-
tween old and new imperialisms for the
hegemony of the earth. 1t was little else.
The new German imperialism was at
tacking the imperialisms of Britain and
France. America intervening, and the
indignation of mankind was organized
against the Hohenzollern because he had
unsettled the balance, such as 1t was, OF
the world He had reverted to the bar
barism of belligerence; he had fostered
and released the military traditions OF
Germany when all the rest of the world
seemed drifting toward a regime of lib
eral progress. Not until 1917 did the
thought of a possible social revolution
complicate the issues between the war
ring governments.
But this present war began with revo-
luton and counterevolutiOn in Spain
FasciSm and National Socialism were
counterrevolutionary movements directed
against the development of Bolshevism
and merely military considerations be-
come more and more plainly subordinate
to social dissolution and, it may be, So
cial rebirth. 1t is absurd to say, as peo-
pie are still saying, first win this war
and then see what it is about" No pow
er. no government will win this war be-
cause. plainly, it has ceased to be a war
and dissolves vislbly into world reyolu
ton.
The role played by the German tradi-
toni do not say the German people