'The only way to defend freedom Is to assert it.' 1886-1961 A. J. P. TAYLOR Our ^ Anniversary This Month

7W£ 4/Mrt0 0 /Sr WEEKLY-4d. ■TOBER I f I96I Vol 22 No 33 Mac’s Guessing Game g Y his cabinet shuffle Mr. Mac­ market a whole industry of experts, witnesses swear to “tell the truth, millan has given the political interpreters, journalists whose job the whole truth and nothing but the i f e commentators of our mass organs of it is to ferret out the “news” from truth,” the lawyers on both sides communications plenty to speculate the confidants of the big men, such then proceed to cross-examine them ' about. “End of a liberal era?” asks as their chauffeurs, chamber-maids in order to prove that they are only the Guardian; “ ‘Get Tougher’ Cabi­ and butlers. telling lies!). net” affirms the Daily Worker; “A Indeed if a Prime Minister were Why is it that all respectable new crown prince for the Tories”, to be so democratic as to disclose . parents attempt to teach their child­ the Herald assures us, and so on. the reasons for his actions it is ren to tell the truth in preparation A * visitor from outer space could almost certain that the Press would for their going out into a world in A * 1 . well be forgiven if he expressed sur­ either accuse him of lying, or praise which they learn that the hall mark prise at the fact that the only person, his political astuteness in putting his •of “success” is one’s ability to hide the Prime Minister, who could give political rivals off the scent of the- one’s feelings and the truth in one’s a first-hand account of the reason truth. The trouble with telling the dealings with others? for the Cabinet shuffle, is the pnly truth is that it would so simplify one who says nothing! The game the relations between men that for WHEN IS A DICTATOR NOT of politics would obviously lose many of them the whole spice of A DICTATOR? much of its importance, and mystery life would be lost. Apart from the jyjORE in sorrow than in anger ISfeflfe if the leading politicians were to politicians, think of the business A the Observer and its Common­ explain to the public each move men trying to pull the wool over wealth correspondent Colin Legum, they made, apart from the fact that the eyes of a prospective client at are having to recognise that Mr. it would remove from the labour a business lunch; of the advertising Nkrumah’s latest move in arresting men thinking up how to glamourize and imprisoning without trial fifty a miserable packet of detergent or a members of the opposition, coupled tin of bullet-hard peas; of the union or his attempt to join the Communist with the fact that he no longer enjoys leaders who build up the image of the support of a majority of the Party. “My reasons were greater than themselves as indispensable to the that,” the Minister said. ✓ Ghanaian people, lays him open to interests of the workers; of the self- IE FREE WORLD Mr. Downer told the House that Mr. the charge of ruling as a dictator. importance of millions of petty JFRICA: PROFESSOR ACCUSED | synod last March he took a stand Henry Bolton Basten, Vice-Chancellor Mr. Legum maintains however that officials who under their uniforms Despite things said about Ghana in against the ban on non-white member­ of Adelaide University; had told the ■HERESY assistant secretary of immigration, Mr. are more miserable creatures than the past, two facts remained true until Durban. October 5. ship of the Church and was warned with others not to oppose existing Church Ronald Harris, that if Mr. Brenner did their would-be victims! Think of the present crisis hit the country last | A. S. Geyser. Professor of New law and not to criticise Church policy not come to Australia it would not be what would happen to our Courts of month. It has not become an authori­ a serious problem for the university. tarian State, and Dr. Nkrumah was not Jbent Theology at Pretoria Univer- outside the Church. Dr. Geyser said “Justice” and the machinery of pun­ pThao Logical Faculty, which is run today that he was shocked that students Mr. Basten also said that the univer­ ishment and enforcement of the law a dictator. Whatever criticisms were RDie Nederduits-Hervormde Kerk, is had preferred a heresy charge against sity would not pursue the matter further if everybody were to tell the truth. felt about the Nkrumah regime (and Jn tc £ a heresy charge. Dr. Geyser has if the Government felt there was a him and he asked for a public hearing It is a curious fact that though both Continued on page 3 J B h boldly attacked race discrimina- strong security risk. Mr. Downer said by the Church Commission. Mr. Harris told Mr. Basten that he B h in the Church as being unscriptural (Guardian). |H d has defied efforts of the Hervormde would not divulge the information given Pkerk.ti^muzzie him. about Mr. Brenner to anyone, including He waRrecently told to resign from AUSTRALIA:' LECTURER BANNED the Chancellor of the University. Elbe university within a specified period, AS SECURITY RISK « (Reuter). STATISTICALLY INEVITABLE? ! but before the time had expired he was Canberra, October 4. ACCORDING to a report in the “Both East and West are developing I served with two charges—one of heresy, The Australian Minister of Immigra­ SWITZERLAND: REFERENDUM ON [ the jotfifer of disregarding an order pro- tion, Mr. Alexander Downer, told the Daily Express, America is city-busting rockets which will soon be I hibking criticisms of Church laws or House of Representatives here tonight H-WEAPONS spending millions of dollars on an completely automatic and ready for in­ B decisions. The charges were laid by that Mr. Y. S. Brenner, a graduate of Geneva, September 27. anti-missile device which will shoot stant response at the touch of a few I some of his senior students. London University, was refused an entry The Swiss House of Representatives down any buttons. He denied the charges when he ap- visa for Australia because he was a today decided by an overwhelming Russian rocket which might be fired “We are rapidly reaching the point | pea red before a Church disciplinary strong security risk. majority (147 to 12) to recommend to by technical or human error. . . . where the question of a mistake is criti­ I committee this week, but the committee Mr. Downer made his statement after the nation the rejection in a forth­ Nike-Zeus is a 200-mile range missile cal. I am afraid we are moving in the I decided that there was a prima facie case coming under strong Opposition fire for coming plebiscite of a proposal for the with an atomic warhead designed to direction where a nuclear. exchange is 1 against him. The synodal commission accepting security reports on Mr. Bren­ “prohibition of the production, import, destroy an incoming H-bomb in the air inevitable statistically — not because I is expected to meet later this month to ner, a 34-year-old German-born Israeli, transit, stocking, or use of all kinds of without detonating it . . . it could shoot somebody wants it, but because it just I consider the charges and hear Dr. Gey- who had been appointed to a lectureship atomic weapons.” down Mr. Krushchev’s 100-megaton happens.” | ser's defence. If be is pronounced in economic history at Adelaide Univer­ The move to ban the bomb in Switzer­ warheads. We wonder what the “Peace ■„ guilty, he will be unfrocked and dis- sity. land was originally due to Communist Mr. Richard Morse of the U.S. through balanced nuclear strength” J missed from the faculty post. Mr. Downer said the risk would have initiative, but gradually attracted sup­ Army Defence Science Board is advocates advise in this eventuality? Last year he figured prominently in been “so grave that any Minister with port from non-Communist pacifists. In quoted as saying that: The argument that because each | the controversy over the book “Delayed a sense of responsibility in the interest April, 1959, the extra-parliamentary pro­ Action”, in which he and ten other of this country could not possibly have side have nuclear weapons of equal cedure was invoked by a motion with strength neither dare risk retaliation Dutch Reformed Churchmen condemned granted Mr. Brenner a visa.” The re­ 72,795 valid signatures. In July the race discrimination and demanded a new fusal of the visa was not because of Mr. Swiss Government proposed to Parlia­ by starting war can hardly apply (if South African racial outlook. At the Brenner’s activities in the Stern Gang ment that the “ban-the-bomb” motion it ever did) in a situation where con­ should be submitted to a nation-wide H-Bomb Protest trol has become impossible. referendum with the recommendation Even if we assume that the Army that it should be rejected. Science Board are, for military Dr. Wahlen, the President of the Con­ by Artists and reasons, exaggerating the inevita­ federation, stressed on behalf of the bility of error we cannot ignore the Government that „ the ban-the-bomb W riters possibility. motion should be rejected. He said that It is said that the rocket early- several countries already had the bomb Fifty-nine leading British artists, musi­ An AnarchistWBft- Ball warning system in this country and that “it is not by closing one's eyes cians and writers have signed a statement 9 WILL BE HELD AT FULHAM TOWN HALL that one removes evil.” protesting at the “immorality of present operating with Nike-Zeus could ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 AT 7.30 Dr. Wahlen had himself advocated in power politics,” The Campaign for give TO CELEBRATE 75 YEARS OF ’FREEDOM* 1946 that Switzerland should not Nuclear Disarmament has sent the pro­ President Kennedy time to decide AND FREEDOM PRESS. acquire atomic weapons. He said frankly test to the Prime Minister and the whether an attack was deliberate or today that events had made him change American, Soviet and French Ambassa­ accidental before ordering massive re­ (MUSIC WILL BE PROVIDED BY his views. Switzerland, now faced with dors in London. taliation. >MICK MULLIGAN AND HIS BAND steadily growing threats of war, could The statement was drawn up by Miss He could make the decision in I WITH GEORGE MELLY no longer agree to have its freedom of Barbara Hepworth in consultation with this event which might mean the AND GUEST ARTISTS. action limited. John Bratby, Benjamin Britten, Sir Her­ annihilation of the Russian people. i REFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE Dr. Wahlen said that at preset)! bert Read and Graham Sutherland. But if we don’t care about the fate Switzerland could neither acquire nor “It is said that the bones of our chil­ , AND THERE WILL BE A LICENSED BAR. of the Russian people, it might do produce nuclear weapons. Should Swit­ dren and grandchildren will be con­ well to consider what would happen ) ADMISSION SIX SHILLINGS. zerland be in a position to have such taminated by the present situation,” the weapons later, it was clear that the if a button is accidentally pushed TICKETS NO W AVAILABLE FROM statement says. country could never accept conditions “We call upon our Government to in the West and a missile lands in FREEDOM PRESS 17a MAXWELL ROAD FULHAM LONDON SW6 incompatible with its neutrality. But take some initiative to break through Soviet territory. AND FROM DOBELL'S RECORD SHOP. CHARING X RD WC2 before taking any action the matter the present deadlock, and we ask all We could not blame the Russian OR LIBRARIE PARISIENNE. OLD COMPTON ST W l (OR AT THE DOOR) would be submitted for parliamentary Governments, in the name of all the people if they made no attempt to decision. arts, to halt the contamination of man's stop massive retaliation by their (Guardian).spiritual growth.” government. f r e e d ° j| CINEMA / ”\N E of the charming survivals in English court procedure is when the the judge (prior to putting on the be one poor girl in a mess. Somehow, witch-doctor’s black cap) says: "Have without being sentimental or satirical, you . . . anything to say why you should Shelagh Delaney has managed to convey not be given judgment according to the hopes and fears and loves and hates law?" and beliefs and indifference to her hero­ This, according to Arthur Koestler and h M e ine to people quite unlike her, and also C. H. Rolph in their Penguin Hanged Without Benefit to give voice to a whole generation of by the Neck (2/6), is not an invitation and the Haymarket prisoners are i j alienated young women who have grown for the prisoner to give reasons why he examples, of human error plus prejM up in the post-suffragette era. Whether should not hang but is a survival (like Given the death penalty there is ndj or not A Taste of Honey will mean any­ the posy in front of the judge, to ward sibility of restitution or rehabilii thing to our children or even to our­ off gaol fever), from the days when the and in Leslie Hale's book many exal of Life selves in ten or twenty years’ time, it has ‘clergy’ which actually included all who are given of the way the forces^ ofl certainly meant as much as Look Back of Clergy could read and write were given the and order’ fight to maintain their eg in Anger or Roots to thousands of " jATt AStFE^I^IOREY” which began benefit of their education and were not ‘Have mercy upon me O God, as justice. life in 1958 as a Theatre Workshop people in the last three; and it has been hanged. according to Thy loving kindness: For example, in the PelizzioniJ play by a remarkable girl of 19 and en­ one of my most cherished experiences, Up to the reign of George IV this According to the multitude of Thywhere an Italian was involved ini first in the theatre and now in the joyed successful runs in the West End privilege was abolished but the form of tender mercies, blot out my transgres­affray at Clerkenwell and was conde and on Broadway, has now been made cinema. question remained and ‘benefit of clergy’ sions.” I ed to death, Mr. Negretti, the baroir into a Woodfall film that demands to be 1 suppose the film will have more im­ could still be put forward even by the ...This passage reads curiously in the manufacturer took an interest in) pact than the play, but I still prefer the seen. It tells what might have been the illiterate who with bible in hand used light of the remarks of Elizabeth Orman case and the only way he could g*1 sordid and sensational story of an ille­ play. 1 think that by adding a great to ‘read’ a passage committed to mem- Tuttle in her book The Crusade Against deal of social-realist background scenery Italian (who had volunteered a coff gitimate Irish school-girl in Salford, .ory. The piece chosen was: Capital Punishment in Great Britain* sion) prosecuted was to bring a pfl and outdoor action, Tony Richardson abandoned by her promiscuous mother who speaks of “the hesitance of the prosecution. The second Italian w afl in favour of a one-eyed drunkard, has blunted the edge of the story more Church to endorse the abolition of the than Joan Littlewood did by her weak­ found guilty of the same murder, a | seduced and then abandoned again by a death penalty”—“Without benefit of own confession. The law now haM ness for making it a music-hall turn. coloured sailor, and cared for during her clergy” indeed! This week-end a clergy­ victims for the same noose. ThesT The claustrophobic effect of the single FOR WHOSE consequent pregnancy by a half-queer man (The Bish of Woolwich) came out aged to save Pelizzioni’s neck and j art-student who abandons her yet again room, relieved only by hoots from ships’ CONVENIENCE? against capital punishment. Elizabeth own face by trying Pelizzioni j_ when her mother returns on the day the sirens and the murmur of children’s Orman Tuttle in her summing up com­ wounding charge, acquitting him o® According to a recent press report, the child is born. But in the combined voices off-stage, is dispelled when the ments also on the continual failure of and releasing him. This all tookT campaign started by Mrs. Barbara Castle hands of the author, Shelagh Delaney, camera keeps moving—however skilfully the abolitionist campaign to gain the in 1856 and Leslie Hale says it c<* to have penny-in-the-slot turnstiles re­ and her two collaborators and directors, —up and down the streets and canals status of a party issue. The Bishop of happen now, since the Court of;A | Joan Littlewood (come home soon!) and and fairgrounds. Richardson is an un­ moved from ladies' lavatories is causing Woolwich stressed that the Conservative now exists which could refuse toff Tony Richardson, there is nothing in the comfortably restless film director. On “very serious concern” at the firm of Party in putting capital punishment reso­ the murderer’s confession (as then least sordid or sensational about Jo's the other hand, Rita Tushingham is not W. T. Ellison and Co., Salford, the firm lutions on its Party agenda was brand­ fused to hear Ware in the MancJ taste of honey and bellyful of gall. perhaps as fine an actress as the original who make the turnstiles. ing itself as a reactionary party. But bomb-site case). They could alscM It was a strange play, and it is a Frances Cuka, but she is much more Mr. F. t). Baron, the secretary of the what of the Labour Party who, it is ex­ a secret enquiry at great speed (asfl right as Jo—what a wonderful sad face firm, said that Mrs. Castle might have strange film. In a sense it is realistic, plained in Elizabeth Orman Tuttle's Christie case) and Mr. Negretti or| Bfif but it is a poetic realism; in a sense it she has! And it is good to see Murray “consulted us” before condemning the book were constantly reluctant to re­ zioni would be denied permissqJ| is documentary, but it is an emotional Melvin again in the part he created (I turnstile. He added: move capital punishment from the statute attend! document. It is a true tragicomedy, wonder if we will ever be able to see “We like to think we are the major book when they were in office and had These three books are valuabl® which is a rare thing these days, with him as the British soldier in a film of turnstile manufacturing firm in the coun­ Home Secretaries who, out of office, lery in the war against capital pj laughter and tears not at different times The Hostage). Dora Bryan (rescued try and quite half our business lies in were Abolitionists, and in office signed ment which it seems must be| but at the same time. If one had to from the deserts of farce), Robert Steph­ this direction. We are now at the point death warrants. God preserve us from without benefit of clergy, of po| put it into a single category, a good one ens and Paul Danquah also give con­ of having to declare some of our 24 our ‘progressive’ friends. We under­ parties—or of doubt! would be "neo-romanticism"—and the vincing performances as the mother, employees redundant due to a consider­ stand our ‘reactionary’ enemies. Consideration of this question French nouvelle vague isn’t all that far drunkard and sailor. In fact it is a good able number of cancelled orders. * * * naturally to consideration of the;] away. You won't learn much from it film, not as good as Saturday Night -4 “To some women it may look a bit questions of crime as sickness, pi On the same BBC news bulletin that about teenage problems or working-class Sunday Morning, it is true, but better like prison but hundreds and thousands and their de-institutionalization (o ] gave the Bishop of Woolwich’s speech conditions in urban Lancashire, but you than Richardson's earlier shots at the have gone through these turnstiles while pie dynamiting) the question of] m there was a story of an Italian who has will learn exactly what it feels like to Osborne plays, and far, far better than the number who have complained has as vengeance and the law as thjj served seven years’ imprisonment for the nearly all the celluloid rubbish produced been comparatively few. I think that holder of property rights. The Cl t r in British film studios. women are glad of them really, because murder of his brother. The brother has Against Capital Punishment is thel now re-appeared alive and well. But why has the story been mucked they do prevent vandalism and help to runner of a campaign against all p i ^ This is the latest of the type of case, about so much? Why does the drunkard keep lavatories clean and tidy.” ment which must come. eleven of which are recorded in the third have a glass eye instead of a patch? Mr. Baron said the firm would have ack obin abolitionist book (by Leslie Hale*) of J R § Why does the sailor come from Liver­ been glad to consider ways of improving pool instead of Cardiff? Why does the the design of turnstiles and would still errors in the administration of justice. BOOKS? her Geoff has gone away for ever?' This be happy to consider ways of making Anarchists are well aware of the falli­ ought to have been conceived at Christ­ them more attractive. He felt Mrs. bility of the law. Sacco and Vanzetti We can supply mas? And why on earth does the film Castle had done the 24 men in the fitting Fulham Town Hall department of the works a “very great ‘Stevens & Sons, 30s. ANY book in print. peter out in a series of aimless wander­ Also out-of-prim books searched for ings instead of culminating in Jo’s first disservice”. *Hanged in Error, Penguin Special 2s. 6d. Oct 2 0 —and frequently found! This includes labour pain all alone in the room when paper-backs, children’s books and text her mother has gone out for a drink and books. (Please supply publisher’s name her Geof has gone away for ever? This if possible). was a scene that had an unbearable poignancy equal to Beatie’s great speech cepted the newspaper report that one NEW BOOKS at the end of Roots—why spoil it? Poor the galleries had threatened to kick o] The Anatomy of Work Sbelagh Delaney, she must be the most old friend Mesens out of their gallej G. Friedmann 25/- interfered-with dramatist who ever put Round the Galleries if he dared to enter it, for without till French Profiles: Prophets and Pioneers pen to paper and conjured out of thin past and present help of Mesens tfie© A MONTH ago G. Butcher of Art But in the end the gimmick will even G. P. Gooch 30/- air *‘a * bit of love, a bit of lust, and would have been no joint exhibitions Curtains News hailed the Max Ernst exhi- defeat the work of a good painter. Five there you are”; it would be possible to it was a good gag but the combined! Kenneth Tynan 42/- bition at the Tate by front paging the hundred years ago Konrad Witz the write a Ph.D. thesis on the various ver­ advert makes me a sceptic. Thc Insecure Offenders statement that Ernst is pre-eminent in German found that he possessed a rare T. R. Fyvel 25/- sions of A Taste of Honey. For the rest it is with regret that Jl the surrealist movement, and a few ability to paint draperies and he filled record the suicide by poison of Arthur Moscow or Peking? But it does seem right that Jo should weeks later Andrew Forge, accepted A. Metaxas 15/- wear a Nuclear Disarmament badge, his canvases with them to the almost Jeffress of the gallery at 28 Davies I doyen of pop critics, cried that Magritte Wben my Girl Comes Home considering that her creator is on the virtual exclusion of the form beneath. Street, W.l. He was found dead in I was “one of the most prolific and im­ V. S. Pritchett lfi/- Committee of 100 and was with us in These painted draperies are lovely to room 71 in the Hotel France et Choiseul 1 portant of the surrealists”, and- there behold for beautifully painted, they flow in the Rue St. Honore in Paris and it I the Square on September 17th. I won­ you have it and you can steal a copper REPRINTS AND CHEAP EDITIONS der if Jo was there too. I like to think like cream the length of Witz’s canvases is said that this rich, well-groomed and j and toss for your choice, for Butcher Taking it Easy so. 1 have met dozens of girls like her, but in the end one tires of looking at well-travelled American feared a third | has since managed to muddy the waters E. Hyams 61- and 1 feel that 1 have met her too. You yards of cloth, yet Hans Holbein a hun­ world war and now he lies dead and the 1 a little more by writing that "Magritte Fantasia of the Unconscious and could shoot the play or the film to dred years later could paint Henry VIII gallery continues as before. Osbert Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious is not a very good painter”, and that pieces, but she would still be there, as in all his gaudy raiments and at the Lancaster, the front page cartoonist of | D. H. Lawrence Iff/- surely can be counted as an understate­ alive as you or me. N.W. same time make them secondary to the the Daily Express, lounged on a large The Hobo ment, for Magritte is a very bad painter, Nets Anderson IS/- creature that wore them so that our eyes padded seat in the centre of this quiet, Moll Flanders so bad indeed that if his uncatalogued will always seek the calculating and plush gallery when I made my round Daniel Defoe 7/6 “Le Bon Sens” at the Obelisk Gallery brooding face of the man who wears and around this tall, grey-moustachioed, ] Selected Writings at 15 Crawford Street, W.I., existed as a the clothes. grey-suited and diplomatically dignified 1 Oscar Wilde 7/6 solitary painting it would not gain ac­ member of and recorder of the Estab­ Commandant of Auschwitz Magritte has a limited store of tricks ACT0RS ACT ceptance at an amateur exhibition. This such as painting the outline of a canvas lishment hung his gouaches of the Rudolf Hoess 3/6 bowl of fruit so crudely painted contains The Footsteps of Anna Frank A report by Alistair Cooke in the upon a painted landscape so that the Levant. Slight and pretty things that E. Schnabel 2/6 Guardian says that if New Orleans, within itself every fault of the third-rate foreground and the background become could only hint of his Maudie Litlle- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Memphis, or Richmond, Virginia, want painter. The garish colours, the lack of part of the whole and the skies, trees hampton vignettes in the Express with Runner to see the touring companies of Broad­ depth, the cardboard flatness of the sub­ and the human bodies that pull apart but one exception, his “Assouan”, land­ Alan Silliioc 2/6 way hits after June, 1962, they will have ject-matter and tho inability to create like bricks. Yet 1 have no wish to de­ scape as lovely as a Chinese water­ to open their theatres to mixed audi­ the illusion of space are explained away cry these men for they gave of their colour by Pan Yun. Past Robert Mel­ SECOND-HAND ences of Negroes and whites. This fur­ by the double lake technique of the best and that in its turn gave us ville the enigmatic keeper of the gallery Letters to a Friend ther dose of pumsJuncnt to the already subject-matter. moments of delight, but their gift to and down the stairs are the Alphabet Winifred Holtby 6/6 groggy South was administered last Sun­ Yet to acknowledge the sheer techni­ the painters of the future is that they drawings of Peter Soderlund. After the Tory M.P. second World War it was considered the Simon Haxey 3/- day by the League of New York cal badness of the surrealist painters is painted what and how they pleased and Theatres, Equity, and the International not to deny the enjoyment that they refused the rational anchorage of the thing among the better type of well- Child of Light (Mary W. Shelley) heeled university students to have one of Muriel Spark 6/- Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. have have given. In 1850 Charles P.R.B. for they were the trail-blazers Ludwig Feuerbach (damaged) This triumvirate has, of course, no Dickens foamed at the mouth with lor the Beckets and the Pinters and the Piranesi’s prison etchings upon one's: Frederick Engels 2/6 power to compel threatres anywhere to almost uncontrollable simulated rage Genets for they took the universe and wall. Selected Stories of La Hsun 3/- enforce Federal integration laws or to when he viewed Millais' "Christ in the broke it apart and reassembled it to These sombre, mind-dark interiors o£ A Handbook of Hanging lift State or city restrictions that either house of his parents” but now this de­ please themselves, and the rat-pack of shadowed stone were made more Charles Duff 2/6 exclude Negroes from white (hreatres or corous painting graces the walls, unless psychologists, professional and amateur, monumental and Kafkaish by the addil assign them to separate sections. But if* been stolen, of the Tate to evoke who attempt to explain and catalogue tion of rising and falling flights of tiny the League of New York Theatres repre­ the admiration of pious old ladies. The their vision do them a dis-service. iron steps spanning the huge vaults and Freedom Bookshop sents the Broadway producers and man­ surrealists have so much in common Running with the exhibition at the parabolas. Soderlund has done this to (Open 2 p.m.—5-30 p.m. daily; agers, Equity is the actors’ union, and with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Obelisk Gallery is the Magritte exhibi­ a lesser degree in that he had taken tha 10 a.m.—J p.m. Thursdays; the International Alliance speaks for the that it will be no surprise to find them tion at the Grosvenor at 15 Davies letters of the alphabet and drawn them 10 a.m.—5 p.m. Saturdays). stage-hands. They have pooled their sharing a common grave. The same Street, W.I., and they have combined in crumbling stone in a deserted worl. *j them forget present oppression, tyranny method or institution that seems to him gtto b er 14 1961 Vol 22 N o 33 and bondage; it weakens energy, emascu­ disadvantageous. lates initiative. The individualist does The right to life, that is, the right to not put his hope in the future society. FUTURE make one's own happiness as one feels ---» ; Ho lives in the present moment, and he impelled to, alone or together with those wants to draw from it the maximum one feels particularly attracted to, with­ results. Individualist activity is essen­ out fear of intervention or intrusion by 'HEN IS A DICTATOR? tially a present work and a present personalities or organizations incompati­ accomplishment. The individualist knows SOCIETY ble with one's ego or with the associa­ that the present is heir to the past and [Earlier this year the question was raisedtion of which one is momentarily part. Continued from page I ment—which is another term for pregnant with the future. It is not in in the correspondence columns Free of­ These individualists think that the about the distasteful personality cult democratic government—just does some tomorrow that he wants to see the dom as to what individualist anarchists guarantee of the right to fife, thus con­ (ffr around him), his Government was not work. How indeed can a gov­ end of encroachment by society on the propose for a future society. The fol­ceived. is the least a human individual Hog maintained in power by the con- ernment represent both the interests individual, of invasion and oppression lowing extracts from a contribution can to demand when he realizes what an nt of the great majority of Ghanaians. of the exploiter and the exploited; of one person by another. It is today. L'Encyclopcdie Anarchiste present one authoritarian and arbitrary act was com­ Kt is doubtful whether this is any in his own life, that the individualist individualist view. They first appeared mitted in bringing him into the world. ?rt?cr true. The point has arisen where of the privileged class and the wants to win his independence. They think also that all propaganda for A under-privileged; of high finance in English translation Resistance in Vol. fch fully working democracy the Gov- To be sure the individualist often fails 7, No. 1.—S.E.P.] these demands' favours the advent of a oent would have resigned and held and of old age pensioners? There in his attempts to free himself from the transformed mentality, characteristic of elections. Dr. Nkrumah has in- can be no democratic government yoke of existing domination. Consider- all new humanity. ad decided to lock up his opponents, without social and economic demo­ jng the forces of opposition and oppres­ The struggle for the abolition of .the fleeing their complicity in a plot to cracy—that is equality. But if sion, this is very natural. But the future course to violence, compulsion or force monopoly of the State, or of any execu­ fcrthrow the Governm ent by force and equality existed then government will profit automatically from what he to adjust a difference. tive form replacing it—against its inter­ (assassinate him. would be superseded, or so modified gains. The individualist knows very A good number of individualists think vention as centralizer, administrator, regulator, moderator, organizer or other­ gs-is a curious line of argument. that it would bear no relationship well that he will not exploit the whole that the ooming of “the future human­ forest, but the path he opens will remain, ity", as we have sketched it, depends on wise in any relations among individuals >uld possibly be shown that both to the strong government of reality, —equally favours, these individuals ■or the '“weak" government of Mr. and those who follow him. if they want an attack on serious, rational and con­ pier and Krushchev at some stage to, will take good care of it and broaden tinued propaganda, against authoritar­ think, the emergence of this mentality. lotber enjoyed “popular support". Legum's imagination. BBI ianism in all spheres of human activity, I am aware that a good number of anarchist individualists have no interest H nobody would deny that their Whatever may have been the bene­ The individualist is incapable, it is whether in political or social economy, juries were anything but dictator- in morals, in art, in science, in literature. in the “future humanity". For them fits bestowed on the Ghanaian true, of outlining in full detail the map “without risk of erring too far, we can lips. “Popular support" is more of “future humanity" as it would be if Arguing from the fact that the individual people by Mr. Nkrumah’s govern­ is'born into—is thrust into—an already- assume; 1. That there will never be a jten than not a negative, relative ment. the truth of the matter is that his demands were won. Thus he cannot general, collective life from which auth­ g|ude to governments.; that is. that make a topographical work; but on the organized society without being allowed in these five years of “indepen­ to consent to it or reject it, or able to ority is absolutely excluded; 2. That in ^government is not as batfTts its other hand he can foresee with certainty all societies there will be individuals or dence" a large number of Ghanaian both the nature of the terrain and the defend himself from it or oppose it, they iecessor. Obviously Nkrumah politicians and business men have deduce that this primordial fact confers groups who are protestants, malcontents, byed popular support because be quality of liquid that will fill the rivers critics and negators. Without doubt, we been busily feathering their nests at and the possible kind of culture. "The on the victim the right to life, without the man who symbolised restrictions or reservations. will witness transformations, improve­ the expense of the people. Mr. new humanity" is not for him absolutely ments, modifications, even upheavals. tea's liberation from colonial Nkrumah’s recent attempt to clean terra incognita. That is, the right to consumption, ie. and be has exploited this popu- independent of all economic politics; the The capitalist system of production may up some of the corruption in top The individualist can, therefore, even vanish in the end, gradually or forcibly. Btv to build himself up (where now indicate what a “future humanity” right to individual choice of the method circles not only points to the extent of production and the means of produc­ Little by little, one will work less, earn we reading that one Ghanaian of the corruption but the fact that will be. He knows it will resemble the more; reforms will come, menacingly, present world in nothing — less by tion; the right to choose the consumers on the occasion of Mr. N’s the leading figures are still allowed inevitably. There may be an economic tbday. published 28 photographs changes in detail than by a complete he wants to benefit by his exchange; the to spend up to £20,000 building right to choose whether to associate with system unlike ours. But whatever the _“H5s High Dedication" as he is transformation of the general mentality, social system, good sense indicates that themselves houses, without the taint a different understanding Of relations others, and, if he refuses to associate, ywn to his admirers) and to of corruption, shows that in spite of the right to means of production suffi­ its permanence depends on a system of among men, a universal and individual regulation adapted to the average men­ |feeze out. by means foul and fair, his Marxist-socialist philosophy Mr. change of state of mind, that will make cient to maintain himself; the right to those politicians and leaders who choose his associates and the, purpose tality of the people in it. Whether they Nkrumah has no intention of sweep­ certain methods and certain institutions want to or not, those to the right or left challenge his authority. After impossible. for which he associates. ing away the new privileged class. of the average regulation must conform Thus the individualist can affirm with In other words, the right to behave this is not the first time On the contrary, his power, especial­ their behaviour to it; and it matters certainty that authoritarianism will in fio as he finds most advantageous, at his ikntmah has locked up the opposi- little whether its basis is exclusively ly if it is true that he no longer case continue in the future society. To; . own risk, with no limit other than en­ ibn or used legislation which was economic, or biological, or moral. enjoys popular support, will depend imagine a “world to come" where there croachment on the behaviour of others idbtrary to the most elementary “Experience indicates that towards re­ more and more on surrounding would still be a trace of domination, (to put it another way, the use of vio­ fractories they will use only arguments oncepts of civil liberty and demo- himself with a „ sufficiently large .. .coercion and duty is nonsense. lence, compulsion or coercion towards lacy. Colin Legum weakens his number of privileged, moneyed The individualist is sure there will one who behaves differently than you). men can dispose of: politics or violence, /hole argument when he adds that be no longer room for intervention of The right to the guarantee that he will persuasion or compulsion, bargaining or bureaucrats and influential people command. Ghana, like most newly indepen- whose status depends on the con­ the State—of a governmental, social- not be forced to do what is personally ient countries, cannot be ruled by legislative, penal, disciplinary, institution disagreeable or disadvantageous, or hin­ “The crowd always goes towards him tinuation in power of “His High dered from doing what he wants to (he who speaks well and carries himself weak government" Dedication” Surely all this is too or administration—in the thought, conduct and activity of human beings. will not, therefore, resort to physical well. Its angers last no longer than its But if there is any meaning in obvious to deserve further elabor­ The individualist knows that relations force, deceit or fraud in order to gain admirations. It is always easy to fool be use of such terms as “weak" and ation. Equally is it obvious that and agreements among men ' will be what appears useful, advantageous or and seduce. One can no more base one­ strong" as applied to governments whatever the people of Ghana may arrived at voluntarily; understandings agreeable to him). The right to circu­ self on it now than a century or a thou­ have thought of him in the flush of and contacts will be for a specified pur­ late freely, to move wherever he pleases, sand years ago. The mass belongs to ; is surely that a “weak" govern- the strongest, the most superficial, the ient is one which is representative independence celebrations it was in­ pose and time, and not obligatory; they to propagate those doctrines, opinions, propositions and theses that he feels most slippery. In such a situation, what f all the people and a “strong” evitable that before long they would will always be subject to termination: there >§fill not be a clause or an article impelled to, with the reservation of not do anarchist individualists do, what will realise that for them the old adage they do? ovemment is one which rules in of an agreement that will not be weighed using violence in any form to put them that plus qa change plus e’est la “1. Some reply that they will remain le interests of a party or a group and discussed before being agreed to; into practice; the right to experiment in within the milieu and struggle to affirm respective of the opinion of the mJeme chose, applied. Hence the a unilateral contract, obliging someone themselves—without concerning them­ eople. To our minds most govem- strikes, and the demands by the to fill an engagement he has not person­ selves too much with choice of means, lcnts are of the “strong" type government for more sacrifices . . . ally and knowingly accepted, will be im­ for their great concern—the concern of by the workers. possible. The individualist knows that mply because a “weak" govern their life—is, at all costs, to react against no economic, political or religous major­ Celebrating Freedom external determination of their lives. It ity—no social group whatever—will be is to affirm oneself, if not to diminish able to compel a minority, or one single m the Daily Telegraph recently the pressure of the milieu on oneself. lasser the Statesman man, to conform against his will to its (25/9/61) a photograph was They are reactors, refractories, propa­ decisions or decrees. published showing an armoured gandists, revolutionaries, utilizing all We have here a whole series of cer­ tank, with a soldier manning a possible means of battle: education, TUCH water has flowed under the Adversity" should be read to be tainties on which there is no quibbling. violence, ruse, illegalism. They seize “Future humanity”, as the individual­ machine gun fitted with a barrier political bridges, since British believed. The following are the con­ rather similar to the kind one sees occasions when Power is abusive, to stir id French and other interested cluding paragraphs: ist conceives it, “unrolls itself” without up rebelliousness among its victims. But terminal station, without point of arrival. at our busy road junctions to pre­ iliticians were pointing out that it is for pleasure that they act, and not Jt is eternally becoming, indefinitely vent people from crossing except at 1 Suez canal was in danger so In London, at any rate, the smiles of for the profit of the sufferers or by abus­ evolving. A humanity of the dynamic the official zebra crossing. The ing them with vain words. They go. ng as a raving lunatic was at the satisfaction at Nasser's Syrian reverse have not been many, and they have not type, if one can so express oneself, caption under the photo reads; they come, mingling in a movement or ad of government in Egypt. Not lasted long. Those who had hated Nas­ ignores stops en route, or if there are An armoured vehicle, fitted with an withdrawing, as their independence is or fly has shipping continuwl to pass ser in the past found that there was stops at stations, it understands that this electrified barrier for controlling the is not in danger of restriction, parting rough the canal in ever increasing really no satisfaction to be felt at the is the time strictly necessary to Jet off crowds, on show in a United States company with those they have called to imbers. but the political experts return to a separatist Syrian regime, de­ those who want to try an experience that Army parade in Berlin at the week-end. revolt as soon as they pretend to follow §2 now seeing in Nasser a poJi- pendent on army patronage, lacking a will involve only them. The parade was held as part of the cele­ them, acclaim them or constitute them­ Sian of high calibre! This new political basis, uncertain of popular The future humanity, “the new human­ brations marking the 174th anniversary selves a party. Perhaps they do. more Jessment of him follows the recent support. ity", as the individualists understand it, of the United States Constitution. than they are. constitutes a gigantic arena where, as >up d’etat in Syria where having From police with truncheons, to “2. Others situate themselves on the much in thought and custom as in tech­ margin of the milieu. Having somehow the beginning threatened to send Even the thought that Nasser’s fall mounted police with sticks or sabres may have been brought nearer gives no nique. all imaginable projects, plans, obtained means of production, they pre­ s army to crush the rebellion—in (depending on the country). Now cause for cheerfulness; jt is wildly im­ associations and practices will struggle we have the last word in crowd con­ occupy themselves with making Their e best tradition of political bluff— and compete with each other. probable that his regime would be fol­ trol : the electrified barrier mounted .separation from the milieu a reality. 5 then had second thoughts, when it lowed by a better. By accepting the It is because of these well-established on an armoured car. Those who Continued on page 4 as quite clear that his bluff had defeat frankly as a defeat, not attempt­ characteristics that “the new humanity” »n called, and accepted with “dig- ing to fight it out, and declaring (as he in no way resembles, can have no meet­ are in the front will get electric ty” (t° use the Guardian's term) did on Thursday) that he would not op­ ing place with ouurs, “the old humanity". shocks and those behind, if they e loss of one member of his pose Syria's re-entry into the internat­ It will be poly-dynamic, polymorphous, don’t move may well be sprayed ional organisations, he has shown self- multilateral. . with machine gun bullets. (Com­ Don't Forget the tdted (!) Arab Republic. Nasser’s When someone asks exactly how, in back, far from bringing joy to his control and good sense. Some deep- mittee of 100 please note). This is rooted impressions are being revised “the future humanity” that individualists progress! It's good to live on this Anarchist Ball aies of only a few years ago is want, one will solve some litigious point, Nasser's mistakes have been grave; it is side of the iron curtain, but beware “ ’ almost with apprehension, probable that the bill for them has not it is clear that the questioner does not of finding yourself on this side of 0 c t 2 0 —comment BljMjdlUl m'l ! in , the ^ Sunday^ J . * /lAb/gagfe Times yet been paid in full; but he does seem understand* But one can reply with certainty that there will never be rc- the electrified barrier! m tcntional mis-statements of (att when / irdey to make a ppsHive ho states that ieachej^ "*slart at-£10 a the matter which appears in ^ D ea & Sir, week and after 1.7 years, reach £20 a hs a cryiftg need /for- It appears Arthur Ulpth, unlike most week". He must be . fully aware that chists in all mariner of topics; Vet-'vet* of the reviewers of .Ami$'s ‘'New Maps these figures represent the BASIC rates few people appear to be prepare& of HeU". has actually read some vscience Correspondence of pay. Perhaps,the bestway to present give the time, and, energy to fiction other than the' extracts' in the the comparative salaries of the various The anarchist movement is not book. This is just as well, 1 as, white professions and jobs is to give average like the Labour movement by a Amis On science fiction is . not .quite sc figures: the average teacher in this line; the field is wide open for the‘if silly as Amis on jazz, his opinions., on problems of the greatest .'social and country gets approximately £1,100 a vancement of anarchist ideas, and Frej the former only serve as straws to show moral consequence. To take an oft- Silent Sit-down year and.. X take it, so does the average dom . has proved no mean, vehicle for th the direction that the wind is blowing quoted example, individual autonomy teacher " n Brighton. Which, 1 would revolution, in ideas.' away from. Amis forfeited any claim and non-violent disobedience in E, F. To the Editors of Freedom . more than suggest, is a bloody sight What seems to me so utterly path^ to serious consideration when he said,. Russell's “And Then There Were None", There are two slips in the letters pub­ more than the average working map . is that your correspondent should ha|j “In science fiction the scientist is never As Edmund Crispin States In his lished in your issue of October 7th. gets. ■ written.: .“One wonders' what any second Faber anthology . . . "The better ‘Teacher* says that teachers' salaries I agree that my “sneers” are “cheap" : ' c‘an do to earri the approval and sappej wrong'' As a large part of the current what does “Teacher" expect from a com science fiction output is devoted to show­ sort of science fiction is remarkably “start at £JQ a week and after. 17 years of Freedom 's hypercritical editors,- little concerned with science as such. reach £20 a week". This is the basic parative pauper? - However, as I said in years.of frustrating..readership l se*8R ing just how frighteningly wrong the in my original letter, I don't want any' scientist often is. It appeared that Mr. The genre's tendency is to misdoubt, rate, and there are ail sorts of increments only to remember-praise.being given'®! fairly seriously, the wisdom and moral for training, qualifications, military ser­ mote mo le ft 1‘li. strike for the Old ons' m&n . . f What a et/rious fruslrsg Amis did not know' his subject too well. vice* special responsibility, and so on. Age Pensioners, widows, and fathers tioh this implies. It is surely no ftlhw | But Arthur Uloth is equally wrong in responsibility of the technological priest­ Of ail my friends of my own age. the who have to bring up large families* on tion of the editors b£ kn anarchist papeM dismissing “1984" and “Lord of the hoods . . . only by perennial widespread £13 quid a week and I might strike for mistrust can the power of rulers of any two who earn the highest salaries are an to dish out pats, roil, the head, and: r is j Flies" as being outside the Science fiction advertising executive and a graduate some of the lowest paid teachers if their ciilous ‘that an anarchist reader skouff medium. Some time before the first kind—whether politicians, ecclesiastics, commitments are such as to deserve my scientists, managers, trade unions, bureau­ teacher. Instead of worrying about the be interested in people earning rhijjlj earth satellite made a great dea!*of pre­ salaries of professional people who are sympathy. But I hold no brief for an “approval and support*7 viously speculative fiction into fiction in crats. bankers or commissars—be restric­ meant to have a vocation, what about unprincipled strike which will put . more London, Oct. % TpNV GibscM a contemporary setting, SF had moved ted within tolerable bounds. It is pre­ into the pockets of those who already out of the purely mechanical sciences cisely this evocation of a moral, attitude the workers? The average wage in the country for people of all ages is about have more than .their share and a mere and into psychology, sociology, ethics involving a political arid sociological £14 a week: most teachers are well dribble for those who need it most. and politics. When a writer has made corollary that makes SF so valuable, so Finally, 1 would rather see a wage bis name by writing ‘straight’ fiction little ‘escapist'." above that, most manual workers are well below it. System that is slightly pernicious than LONDON there is always this tendency to dismiss It is perhaps true that science fiction Kitty Lamb complains about being the present grossly pernicious system, bis essay into the SF medium. A writer is less concerned with sex than other told to shut up when she shouted “Ban though, of course, I would prefer to see ANARCHIST GROUPl does not have to devote his. entire out­ forms of fiction. On the other hand— the system replaced altogether. And I put to one literary form. But this atti­ the Bomb!" at the Trafalgar Square ask “Teacher" what principle; he j$; CENTRAL MEETINGS AGAIN! merely pointing out, as science fiction sit-down. The teason was not just that tude is probably a hangover from SF’s is always doing, that sexual morals are striking for. meetings to be held at • bug-eved monster period. Huxley's a matter of geography, causes in the in­ her bad-mannered neighbours were Best wishes, humourless Puritans—the Committee of The Two BreWers,, “Brave New World" could not be Re­ telligent reader, some examination of his Biipks:, Opt.- ■' " “Parent '". | 40 Monmouth Street, WC2 100 had deliberately and repeatedly garded as SF because SF was not re­ own attitude towards sex. And three of (Leicester Square Tube) asked that there should be no singing spectable. Nevertheless, even if the en­ the most important SF novels in the last Sundays at 7.30 p.m. or shouting as is the rule in CND tire medium were to consist of rubblish, few years, Bernard Wolfe's “Limbo 90", Pathetic! OCT 15 Max Patrick: demonstrations, since the protest was Huxleys book would still be. science Theodore Sturgeon's “Venus Plus X”, Communist Policy: Left, Right and] being made explicitly and effectively Turn About. fiction. and Philip Wylies “The Disappearance", J o the Editors of F reedom , enough by civil disobedience without OCT 22 Ted Kavanagh: Again, science fiction is not just “a contain some of the most radical think­ The letter from Brian Richardson is any noisy interruptions that might (and Anarchism and Violence form of specialised addict-literature". It ing about sex to be found in cOnterm disturbing It is disturbing that a man did) drown the instructions of the mar­ OCT 29 Albert Meltzer: The SoIdiS differs greatly from the western and the porarv literature. All three: of these should (a) consider himself to be an Councils on the Nile 1946: A Milesig shals. But I agree that there were too detective story in carrying a massive load books are concerned with the idea of anarchist, (b) continue to,, buy a weekly in the British Revolution of political, ethical and sociological im­ sexual jealousy and the urge for politi­ many, kill-joys there, and that their atti­ paper Which he considers to. be a tude to Kitty Lamb was inexcusable. plication and in so doing provides intel­ cal power springing from the same “bloody rotten” one, (c) do nothing k about it. The orte sign of hope is that lectual stimulation of a kind rarely met source, | | ‘Limbo 90'^ I shall' be review­ BBBBMBWWBBMI111 111 (BBSBI Hyde Park Meeting with in contemporary .fiction. The Sf1 ing in the 'near future. The other two he did manage to put pen to paper and produce the squeak We have read. Every Sunday at 3.30 (if fine) magazines are the only popular media books are simply science fiction novels Teachers’ Pay that. H a mutter of course, present ideas It appears? fo me that no one can be about -sex." Sturgeon's discussion of taken seriously in their criticisms of . that the upholder of the status qtio homosexuality in “Venus plus X" must D ear Friends , OFF-CENTRE would regard as subversive. The very Freedom unless he is prepared-to do have given hif^ publisher &0'rae hasty If “Teacher" -of Brighton cafes to something about it. The paper covers a nature of the medium compels the writer DISCUSSION MEETINGS moments, certainly the Sexual customs read my answer to D. Harper again I very broad front and there is room for to examine what is WTong with the con­ of his postulated society, (and his criti­ am sure he will see that when I said “at everyone of an adequate degree of lite- 1st Thursday of each month at 8 p.m.' temporary social order in order to pos­ cisms of our own), are Tar more radical 41 years I still haven't reached .the Jack and Mary Stevenson's, S.taintpl tulate his future society. Over and. over than anything else I. have read. teachers’ minimum' I meant the teachers’ Road, Enfield, Middx. again SF stories; by the nature of their An id^a o f the g h tra l theme; qf basjfe maximum and I am sorry about East Wednesday of each month at. 8 pm subject matter, isolate and examine Wylie's; book can be gamed from this thisvpbyiously unintentional error. at Dorothy Barasi’s, 45 Twyforff Avenir Fortis Green, N.2. ; extract, JTt is. expectable in a -species ; "Teacher”, however, is guilty of in- OCT 2 0 1st Wednesday of each month., at* 8 p.ml that has perverted its instincts forA its at Colin Ward's, 33 Ellefby StreeH immediate fa u lty as religions, faiths^, Fulham, S.W.6: dogmas, dialectics* -etc.) that strong, cul­ m 3rd Thursday of each month at 8 tural compulsions and taboos would Donald Rooum’s, 148a Fellows R oad^ everywhere, Surround the ancient potent The Future Society Swiss Cottage, N.W.3. instincts of sex, and such ^qpuf&e '& Last Friday of each month at 8 pan. at I The Deficit! the ca$e. Western man's religions (and ? -pbntinued from page 3 personal revolutionaries; they tity to Laurens and Celia Otter’s. 57 Ladbrokeg FINANCIAL STATEMENT AT hence | his culture), are rooted' ip J^ex. trying to produce enough for themselves practise, in themselves, in their circle, Road. W.U. 7th OCTOBER, 1961, WEEK No. 40 management and sustained. by inculca­ while eliminating the factitious and the in their relations with then- comrades of ted sex fears, pisobediehce -)bf the superfluous. ideas, their particular concepts of indivi­ JAZZ CLUB Expenses: 40 weeks at £70 £2,800 sacred laws of the ^bmmoh rules a v^Beeausd men: in. general, seem to duals and group lfe. Every time one of Income from Sales & Subs: sin or a crime, Sex hunger has; been them hardly worth bothering about, they the characteristic of the “new humanity'’ New season’s meetings will be held at Weeks 1—39 1,221 4 Albert Street Momington Crescent NW1 made shameful so as to elevate the maintain only the minimum relations implants itself in the mores, every time at approximately monthly intervals. W eek 40 34 vanity of man in relation to the animals with people and human institutions, and one or more human beings, at their risk £1,255 FRIDAY OCT. 13: Jack Stephenson: and so as to enhance the controlling their lltlfef&l life is limited to the and peril, anticipate them by word or The Trumpet. power of cultural tradition and its agen­ iqrhpany of ‘cp^mrades of -action, “the new humanity is realized”. | )EFJC1T £1,545 cies. the courts, the churches and the ideas'. They group together at times, In the domain of art, letters, science, governments and so on. 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