W.W. Pound. pseudonimo

"AMERICAN IMPERIALIST" 23 LU G
XXI

## FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY

The problem of the falsification of history has been broached several times in the transmissions of Rome radio, and it might be of interest to examine a particular case of such falsification.

We are, as you all know, aroused by present tales of mass murder, mass graves, as at Smolensk and in the Ukraine; and by rumours of plots and conspiracies in Bogata, or in Bulgaria, and many speakers seem to regard these things as a novelty, or to think of them as spontaneous local occurrences. It is true that the alleged dissolution of the Comintern did not startle the world, or succeed in attracting much attention, but even so, there is a woeful lack of coherence in many of the comments cast on the air.

Now I should like to draw attention to a particular case of the falsification of history which to what might be a historic parallel for some contemporary phenomena; a case in which the falsification of history is certainly known to Mr Churchill; or perhaps¹ should say a case which most certainly WAS know to Mr Churchill; for in a long career remarkable rather for a sort of noisy versatility than for the display of any very coherent or digested system of ethics, a career, shall we say, distracted often from honour, and never obviously cohering to any principle of honesty or of equity, Mr Churchill may by now have forgotten certain fact that he once knew perfectly well.

I have, perhaps, before me in making these notes, the source of what Mr Winston Churchill once knew; I mean that Mr Churchill knows or knew, once, that the French revolution was far from being that candid and stu stimulating out break of a human desire for liberty and fraternity that the populace has for a century been led to believe; largely by means of slogans.

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