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FOR
NOVEMIfR.
J943
and the Seven Seas, Great Britain drifted
into the position of a besieged Island-
miraculously defended through a lone and
desperate year. "Never, in the history of
mortal combat, had so many owed so much
to so few!" And "so many" includes all
peoples who want peaceful freedom.
What had so disastrously gone wrong?
Had the swing, in the past half-century, to
unrestricted suffrage developed sufficient ir-
responsible political power-notwithstand-
ing British limitations on democracy-to
steer her government toward such disaster?
Here are two brief comments, by British
Heads of State, that may shed some light
on the problem:
In 1936, the Prime Minister publicly
stated, "We knew we should have re-armed
two years ago, but we should have lost the
General Election." This is not quite as bad
as it may seem, for both the Prime Minister
and his audience doubtless felt that the
Socialist Opposition, if returned to power,
would complete qisarmament.
A subsequent Prime Minister, whose um-
brella was ridiculed in Germany, when
chaffed by his colleagues for taking it to
Munich, replied, "It was all I had to take!"
If such reckless unpreparedness, reflected
in these challenging statements, is fairly
traceable to modern unrestricted suffrage,
it is · f largely because of the minority dic-
tatorships - so-called " pressure groups"-
which flourish within the State under that
system; each pressing for advantage of the
group or its leaders, with little thought of
national and international welfare. For
Examples:
(a) One of the chief national products
of the First World War was a new Poland,
which combined again the three portions
into which an earlier Poland had been di-
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Branches in all Principal Cities
vided by Germany, Austria and Russia-
making a democratic Polish State, double
the size of the new state of Czechoslovakia
and almost as large as France. Unhappily,
Poland soon became engaged in a new war
with Russia, and was being reconquered
when help was sought from Great Britain.
But the trade-unions controlling British
transport immediately formed their so-
called "Committee of Action", to prevent
help for democratic Poland (for whose
creation Britain, France, and the United
States were responsible) against "commu-
nistic" Russia; declaring that no British
wheel should turn or British ship sail, if
help were given Poland. Aided by General
Weygand and his staff, Poland saved her-
self.
(b) In 1926, under the general slogan.
of "Socialism in Our Time", a complete
fusion of trad~-unions (represented in Par-
·liament by the so-called Labor Party)
launched the General Strike-a thrust at
the very heart of the British Empire.
But Great Britain is at her best with her
back to' the wall-the miracle of Dunkirk
and its sequels being recent examples. After
a brief period when the issue of the Gen-
eral Strike seemed doubtful, traditional re-
spect for law and order prevailed; for,
when the revolutionists became convinced
that they were legally responsible for con-
sequences, the attempted revolution col-
lapsed.
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, This seems the r!?h,~ time to o~se~ve that
the man who puts R to evolutwn IS a de-
stroyer. Revolution is based on destruction;
whereas a definition 'of evolution is "con-
structive progress." The loose talk of cur-
rent "world revolution" ,- and of a "new
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has been completely described as "philoso-
phic cant." Whom would we trust to scrap
the wisdom of the Ages, and erect on its
ruins a New World? Surely not the dis-
credited "statecraft" that has permitted the
current world holocaust; but who else?
Every generation is heir to the prior
Ages. It inherits all of the knowledge and
all of the experience-much gained by pain-
ful trial and error-Qf all brains throul!hout
all time in the recorded history of the world.
Each generation, in its turn, should add
to that priceless heritage, and thus pro-
gressively accumulate proven benefits, far
surpassing any revolutionary possibilities-
without revolutionary destruction. To that
end, Time is our essential partner; it works
for us unceasingly, while we work and
while we rest and while we sleep.
Revolution, on the contrary, means ex-
plosive dissipation of the accumulated fruits
of all past time and effort-to test some ab-
normal illusions, with the nation and pos-
sibly the world in the test-tube.
In short, both evolution and revolution
are leveling processes, but working in op-
posite directions : Evolution levels construc-
tively upward, whereas revolution levels
destructively downward.
Said Pope Pius XIII to Italian Workers,
June 13, 1943:
"Salvation and justice are not to be found
in revolution, but in an evo lution through
concord. Violence has ever achieved only
destruction, not construction; the kindling
of passions, not their pacification; the ac-
cumulation of hate and destruction, not the
reconciliation of the contending patties.
And it has reduced men and parties to the
difficult task of building slowly, after sad
experience, on the ruins of discord."
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