It is of course obvious that nothing ofthe kind is
going to happen.
Back to the crazy pavement ofVersailles, back to
democracy, i.
By revolution we become more ourselves, not
less.
By this time I was a cabo, or corporal, in command
oftwelve men.
There are premonitory signs ofit already. It is
behind the timesand its first-rate men are mostly dead or disheartened or worn out.
It is important to realise that now, and to graspwhat it entails. England must be
exterminated, must beannihilated, must cease to exist.
The officer ordered him to take hisclothes off. A
lifelong habit of thought stands between him and anunderstanding of Hitlers
power.
What is the use of saying that we need federal
world control of the air?
By this time I was a cabo, or corporal, in command
oftwelve men. Behind thatscreaming little defective in Berlin there is nothing of
the sort.
What has Wells to set against the screaming little
defective inBerlin?
History as he sees it is a series ofvictories won
by the scientific man over the romantic man. But how much it is,after all, to have
any talents to squander. Between democracyand totalitarianism, says Mussolini, there
can be no compromise. Wells istoo sane to understand the modern world. Itwas a time
when generous feelings and gestures were easier than theyordinarily
are.
In theintelligentsia I should say they result
rather from money and merephysical safety.
The German air power has been largely
spent.
Nothing very much, because it is thekind of thing
that happens all the time in all wars. Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a
wonderfulexperience for a boy to discover H. The officer ordered him to take
hisclothes off. The question is, Do yougenuinely accept that case? It is goodbye to
the TATLER and the BYSTANDER, and farewell to thelady in the Rolls-Royce car. Behind
thatscreaming little defective in Berlin there is nothing of the sort. There is not
the slightest doubt, forinstance, about the behaviour of the Japanese in
China.
But as for the Fascists and their backers,how could
they come even as near to the truth as that?
There is noquestion of stopping short, striking a
compromise, salvaging democracy,standing still.
The eldest would have beenabout twenty-five, the
youngest sixteen. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful
asingratitude.