"YOUNG INTELLIGENTSIA"
"British Subject" blames the socalled "young intelligentsia," with its "strongholds among the students and younger graduates of certain of the Universities" for the "pro-Soviet, antiChamberlain, and even anti-British bosh" that is disseminated. If "intelligentsia" means people with intelligence, says the correspondent, the term in this case is clearly a misnomer. "It is so clearly obvious that a person who seeks to prevent the protection of that which he professes to respect, the protection of his own home, his women-folk, his freedom, and his very life, is most seriously lacking in intelligence, otherwise understanding. What these people do not seem to realise is that, however right or wrong Marx or Stalin or Hitler or Chamberlain or Britain may have been before the war, now we are in a struggle for our very lives, a grim struggle wherein all political and other considerations pale into insignificance in the face of slavery-, brutality, and death. May God grant that the unnatural perversion leading these Pacifists or Communists (or whatever they are) .to deny our most primitive instinct of self-preservation will not be allowed to become endemic."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 35, 10 February 1940, Page 10
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