He was half-dressed and was holding up histrousers
with both hands as he ran. In the fatalism of his attitude you could see the
desperatepoverty in which he had been bred. With a humility which was horrible to me
he stripped himselfnaked, and his clothes were searched.
It is goodbye to the TATLER and the BYSTANDER, and
farewell to thelady in the Rolls-Royce car.
Nor was this solely the result of theRusso-German
Pact. What has kept England on its feet during the pastyear?
With a humility which was horrible to me he
stripped himselfnaked, and his clothes were searched. In physicaldetails his vision
of the new world has been fulfilled to a surprisingextent.
What kindof records will Franco have left behind
him?
There is only German Science, JewishScience,
etc.
It is behind the timesand its first-rate men are
mostly dead or disheartened or worn out. The sang-froid with which London faced the
bombing of Madrid!
What kindof records will Franco have left behind
him? I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is liesanyway.
Yet in a way, horribleas all this was, it was unimportant.
How could theypossibly mention their real aims? All
that this ideareally reflects is the sheltered conditions of English life. I know it
is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is liesanyway.
I do not supposethat either the bombs or the German
campaign in Greece have altered hisopinion. The most one can say is thatthe buying
and selling of slaves by individuals is not yet permitted. What is the use of saying
that we need federal world control of the air? The Third Republic had more
influence,intellectually, than the France of Napoleon III.
What kindof records will Franco have left behind
him? It is goodbye to the TATLER and the BYSTANDER, and farewell to thelady in the
Rolls-Royce car. The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy uttersit. In
theintelligentsia I should say they result rather from money and merephysical
safety. Similarly, why are the Russians fighting like tigers against the
Germaninvasion?
There is noquestion of stopping short, striking a
compromise, salvaging democracy,standing still.
In physicaldetails his vision of the new world has
been fulfilled to a surprisingextent. Well, a few weeks later at the front I had
trouble with one of the men inmy section.
The same misconception reappears in an inverted
formin Wellss attitude to the Nazis. Nazi theory indeed specificallydenies that such
a thing as the truth exists. One has to remember this to see the Spanish war in its
true perspective. In physicaldetails his vision of the new world has been fulfilled
to a surprisingextent. Bullets hurt, corpses stink, men under fire are oftenso
frightened that they wet their trousers. These thingsreally happened, that is the
thing to keep ones eye on.