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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 7, 18 October 1919, Page 15

Freedom! You Socialists have always got your mouth full of freedom. For a, hundred years you have specialised in freedom, and there s hardly one of you who has stuck to his doctrine. . . All you Socialists, like the time servers, the lick-spittles you are, after all your talk at meetings voted war credits and supplied fodder for the guns. What's the good of you ? Why! You can't even hold together inside a nation, let alone the world. You quarrel, you wrangle, you burgeon off in sectional rivalry. In this country one can't even find one's way among your Labour. Parties, Independent Labour Parties, Trade Unions, Fabian Societies, British Socialist Parties, Social Democratic Societies, National Socialist Parties, Trades' Councils, National Guilds, and heaven knows what. For chaos you've only one remedy, and that's another chaos. If yoin do establish anything it's either a Bolshevism where no man is safe and no man is fed, or some State socialist machine run by bureaucrats with brass buttons on their coats, and electric buttons on their desks, where the Lonjon Council will be Controller of Paradise, where everything will be against the law because everything will be law, and where there .will be no liberty because no man can do anything he wants without slightly interfering with the liberties of others. —W. L. George. &>'■■&> Q> As long as there is mankind there will be wars. There will be fewer wars, but no great people will ever submit questions of national honour and national existence to a tribunal of other peoples or accept an unjust judgment dictated by interests or might without a test of strength. Certainly this peace gives little encouragement to the hope that wars may end. —The Marshal Yon Hmdo'nWg.