Keeping Faith with the Dead
THE YPRES TIMES
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HOW are we keeping faith with those who gave their lives so simply to protect
their homeland from the tyranny of a brutal military dictatorship This
question ought to be asked, not only on Armistice Day, but day by day.
England has given away much that they fought for. Communism has been allowed
to replace Christianity. A Union of the Godless is to be formed in England, and the
seed to be sowed in schools, colleges and factories by a certain Bolshevik agent (name
in my possession). Moscow has set aside £23,000 a month to subsidize our Press, and
to pay their agents from £5 to £10 a week to organize revolution. Moscow has pro
claimed that Britain will be converted to atheism in the next five years.
They have caricatured God, derided Christ, and set up Lenin as the god of the
godless. They have formed the British Young Communist League to remove from the
minds of young English boys and girls all that Imperial nonsense with which they
have been stuffed at school." Their godless agents have been established among the
Navy, Army, Air Force, Territorials, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Boys' Brigades.
Last Empire Day a Communist school-teacher refused to go to the playground
with the children to wave the Union Jack.
The broadcasting centre is being used for Communist propaganda.
All this propaganda has been permitted by our successive Governments. Our laws
protect these enemies in our midst, while the law would punish any one of us who might
give these agents what they are asking for.
While this subversive warfare is taking place among our people under the guidance
of the paid agents from Moscow, the League of Nations, composed of a mixed lot of
representatives, including those from Moscow, has succeeded in weakening the Royal
Navy to danger point.
In the days of Queen Victoria the Royal Navy was stronger than the navies of the
next two most powerful nations at sea, and world peace was maintained. When
England scrapped her Fleet, beginning in 1904, the war clouds gathered until, in 1914,
when the German Navy had increased to parity with ours, the German war party were
encouraged to spur Austria on to acts that made war inevitable.
Our Air Force has been similarly weakened, and the question of air warfare is being
seriously considered but there can be no question of the need of a super-Navy for
England, because, if we cannot guard our sea communications, we should be in the same
plight as a man whose arteries are cutbleeding to death.
In a communication addressed to a very prominent member of the Cabinet on
November 24th last, I wrote
I am sure that if those young men who so simply went over the top and gave their lives for England
could reappear and be called on to fight again, they would fight for England the same as ever but
if they were told that a League of Nations composed of a mixed lot of politicians and enemies of England
would dominate the world, they would, with one accord, turn their weapons on the politicians who
allowed this great betrayal. Therefore, all the sermons and ceremonies on Remembrance Day are
turned into mockery of the dead, who look down on the hatless politicians gathered at the Cenotaph
with their bowed heads and their calculating minds at work in the two minutes' silence, planning how
best to bring to nought the sacrifices they mock at."
We can keep faith with the dead only by being true to ourselves. We must keep
our trust in God, and set aside personal advantage when it clashes with duty to our
country. Life might be made so lovely and so simple if we would only play the game
with one another.
