Laying the Blame on Labour
| Autor: | H. L. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 1946 |
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| Zdroj: | University of Toronto Quarterly. 15:333-345 |
| ISSN: | 1712-5278 0042-0247 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/utq.15.4.333 |
| Popis: | Marshal Pétain said, in the broadcast (of unknown authorship) which he addressed to his countrymen on the night of France's capitulation, that it was a moral break-down that had led her to her doom. Probably it was. But for some at least of those most convinced that the break-down was moral, Marshal Pétain's account of the decay was the very inverse of the truth. To him, moral declension meant revolt against discipline; it meant insurgence by those bent on free thought, free speech, free conduct. For recovery, he prescribed a new mood, whose first expression should be an oath of allegiance to himself in that new office—unknown to the French Republic—which he assumed, by his own appointment, “Chief of State.” A glance at some leading organs of British Conservative opinion will show a like effort there to charge the national difficulties, if not the whole world chaos, against insurgent Labour. What the French Right sets forth in arraignment of Léon Blum, its British counterpart advances against the memory of Ramsay MacDonald. What force is there in either reproach as an account of the downfall of France and the difficulties of Great Britain—not to mention the desperate travail of all Europe? |
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