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them justice, no great strain on was a revolt against some of the their consciences; for except on salient features of the proposed the point of anti-Semitism, and constitution, particularly against the location of the Holy of Holies the nation of one single Chamber, -Berlin or Moscow-the Arrow with no system of checks and Cross doctrine, as expounded to counter -checks such as are providconstituted the common man-differed very ed in any properly democratic system, and also againlittle from the Communist. that suggestion dangerous st the favouring tendency A second these Central parties is the revul- the judicature be made subservision from political propaganda. ent to the Chamber; this latter might Man is a political, as he is social, clause meant that justice animal. But, before this, he is a become primarily a political and human person. There are large not a legal affair. sections of his life into which it Flouting of Judicial Authority. Nothing has more clearly markis hest that politics should not Politics have invaded al. ed deterioration in some Euro. enter. most every domain of man's per- pean countries, subject to Soviet Man sonality and activity. You have pressure, than the transference of Milions in Europe are sick of polities and are in revolt. Marxist art as vou had Nazi art, judicial authority from properly is a political, as he is a social, animal, but before this he is a huMarxist novels and Nazi novels, constituted courts and judges to man person. He is sick of politics, regimentation and propaganda. Nazi dress. so-called "People's Courts" that is, Marxist dress and Hence the support of the saner bodies in so many countries. and Should the process continue, there political tribunals, whose. standRev. The sanity. European of a return sign of therein the best may be Marxian ways of lacing dards are not objective justice but Whence expediency. John Murray, S.J., Editor of "The Month," London, in a survey of political shoes and blowing noses. the rise of Central parties in Europe, sees in them the beginning Nothing. in the long run, is so have resulted the thousands of tedious and wearisome as propa judicial murders in East-Central ef man's revolt against the blare, bluster and emotional propaganda bluster, and South -Eastern Europe. A reThe blare and ganda. of cat -calls and slogans that have robbed life of meaning. the suggestion and repetition, the liable Polish source prints extracts from writings and declarasloganscries and and catcalls every -Ott for extremists if One striking feature of political millions of men are thoroughly tions of the Vice-Minister of Juslife on the Continent since the col- not extremes, readily meet) feel sick of it all. They want to be tice in the present Polish adminthe the extraction of res novae, when %epse of Germany has been this Among them, left alone .in peace with themsel- istration. development of "Central parties." an older order of things has lost ves, their neighbours and their paragraph from a work, "The Adat times proclaiming themselves their loyalties. in Reborn surroundings, not driven and har- ministration of Justice explicitly Christian or Catholic, at Rights of the Common Man. ried and always directed in eye Poland from July 22, 1944, to others using the title of People's Add to this the energy and dyAs they en- July 22, 1945": and ear and mind. STALIN. Such are the namism of a revolutionary party, oh.: Peasant party. trans"Jurisdiction must be deavour to avoid and reduce the Catholic parties of Holland and cleverly directed and thoroughly -Rights and liberties of common danger of revolution, so, too, they formed. The judge should exBelgium, the Christian Democrats organised. with an orthodox party man ruthlessly swept away. and sentiments. public views press to rid of that bedevilled desire he in Germany and Italy, the Ana. line of thought and action, and art of over -politicising life, and lie should abstain from the printrian Volskpartei and the Small- the recipe is complete. This is over-sensitive the human iples of 'objective justice,' so that holders in Hungary, the Agree how the Bolshevik Revolution French papers are now openly making mind- an art that prepares the a collective understanding of truth "le as talking Communism about %-ns in Bulgaria, and the Ruman- succeeded in Russia. not was It revolutionary way, To men con- may be arrived at. The sentence ian Peasant party. Most of these a revolt against and a victory fascisme rouge" (Red Fascism) in scious of this atmosphere, these should be adjusted to the people's existed before the war: some have over the regime of the Czars, but the same way that German C,atho- Central parties offer balance and feeling as to what is right and not obvious ancestors. e.g., the Chris- the overthrow of a "democratic" lic writers referred to Nazism, fif- sanity, reform without upheavals, t) formal statutes of the law." tian Democrats of Germany in Russia, struggling clumsily along teen years ago, as "Brown Bolshe- and, in time, security without It was always superficial In another statement, made on the German Zentrum, those of in just such an atmosphere of vism." September 6, 1945, at Warsaw, the to speak of Nazism as a move- complacency and selfishness. Italy in the Partiti Populate. chaos and disintegration. same Vice-Minister, Leon Chajn, These Central parties are tread- ment of the "Right," for in GerDemocracy and Stability. They are not all of one model: declared: between ing the path of order amid chaos, many, so far as social and politidifferences there are the third place, it must be In groupings concerned, the were "We all know that among hon-al them, dictated in the main by the of reasonableness in the midst of conservative "Right" was its chief noted that these parties, many of est and devoted men in the Polish experiparties, particular problems, domestic and prejudice and passion, of them at least, are mass be opponent. Courts of Law are also to national, with which they have to ence among so much hasty and popular parties, and in this they found reactionary elements, which an In improvisation. of hot-headed parties Catholic The pardeal. Extremes Become the Same differ from the conservative are working for the enemy camp Holland and Belgium, for instance, era which is being called the centies of the nineteenth century. These elements will be expelled in Thing. only in are more conservative in the tra- tury of the common man, they not They are democratic, meeta short time by the AdministraExtremes have a habit of ditional sense than the Christian are attempting to secure for the ing. This is disconcerting till you the principles to which they sub- tion of Justice. Facing the hard Democrats of Italy. Yet they common man those personal liber- remember that political of their in the quality scribe but parties struggle in Poland between the have very much indeed in com- ties and rights, those narrower cir- cannot be laid out neatly along a leaders. Behind them are, natur reactionaries and the democrats, far cles of home and family and free mon ,and their similarity is line so that what appear to be ally, certain conservative forces, in the jurisdiction will have to show, more significant than their diver- associations, which it is the first extremes are actually furthest the older sense, but also, and pre once and for all, whose side it is purpose of revolution to sweep gencies. from one another: rather do they dominantly, the peasantry, the on. It is evident that there is no that more The away. ruthlessly They are moderate parties, not Europe rises from the chaos of to- curve round the circumference of country people, of Europe, whom place for judges who stand for necessarily defending any special day, and from the pressing prob- a circle till extremes, very nearly Marxian doctrine has largely look- the principles of 'objective truth' status quo, but insisting that re- lems of sheer material existence or in actual fact, touch one an- ed upon as inferior to the urban There is only one truth, that forest and reconstruction proceed the greater will be the part these other and become much the same proletariat and who have preserv- which serves democracy, and the along orderly and honest and just Central parties can play in Euro- thing. This has been brought ed more solidly than the prole- falsity which serves the reactionlines. They are parties of liberty, pean reconstruction. home practically by the fact that tariat the older European and aries, If in the difficult problems claims and opposing the ideology of the nation the Judicature does in the Russian zone of Germany Christian outlook. tendencies many ex -Nazis are now active There are certain of the Absolute State and welcom. And to the peasantry must he not make a decisive stand for the ing the extension of State control wbch greatly favour the growth Communists. Nor is this rapid added a growing number from the vital interest of the Government, be only where such extension is seen of these parties. It is not merely change of allegiance confined to middle classes. rhristiamminded then Polish democracy will to be for the community's greater that Catholics are numerous in Germany. In "The World To- and even Liberal, for whom these compelled to look for a new body if it good. and maintaining all the time most Continental countries, and, day," for May, 1946, an article ex- Central parties represent some- of the Judicature, even that man has other rights and as Catholics. are opposed to athe- amines the composition of the thing more sound and vital clos- should mean the removal of the were, as they Communism, Btic which those judges." than of Polish as ether loyalties Communist party in Hungary the popular entire bench er to reality and always in theory and generally follows: One of the best features in Brit, arc merely political. mind than the more bourgeois to Nazism and its i t practice, former of it consists ish institutions, and one of the Part of past. of the Liberal parties Right nor Left They are neither is a fact, Left Wing Social Democrats, That systems. satellite a The rejection by the French greatest safeguards of individual (in their case the words have lit- or course, but there are other conlarge bloc of whom changed their people of the Constitution. propos. liberty, is the independence of tle meaning), 'tit in the struggle place, colours as soon as opportunity of- ed to them by the Communist and the Judicature. first the In siderations. The administraChurMr. of modern ideas, which men who have suffered under one fered. They constitute to -day Socialist parties, with M R P dis- tion of the law is kept immune chill recently summed up as the of State absolutism, do not the most moderate elements form in influences political from senting, was a fact of the highest ''Governments choice between themselves to an- the party, and are said to repre- significance There must have which own the people" and "peo- readily submitcan in any way other if this sent a "national" rather than an been many Frenchmen who preferples which own the Government." avoided. They red any constitution to nn cein outlook. "international" PERTH FISHERIES they are decidedly on the latter In Britain, a political reaction are, however, outnumbered by re stitution, and others sufficiently Nor do the epithets "proside. 489 Wellington St., Perth. political different party a very constitution, of cruits hopeful to think any the Conservative against "reactionary" apply and gressive" Irish and Poultry Supplies. Many of the party mem- however bad, might be made the Labour past. In them easily. They are both: means votes for Wholesale and Retail. Despite this generous al progressive, in that they envies party, and vice versa. Abroad a bers are persons of violent ten- work. Phone: B5992. City Deliveries age reconstruction and social re- reaction from Nazism does not dencies, and very often, of an ex- lowanee of non-political opinion, Country Trders Catered For. Communist over and above all Nazism and tremely dubious political past. form, often with explicit refer- spell Communism. A large number of them, only a and much Socialist support, the ence to the social doctrine of the Communism are increasingly reChurch, as outlined in the great garded as two aspects of the one few months ago, were composing constitution was rejected. The re. Papal encyclicals; reactionary, if revolutionary process, which has the rank and file of Szalasi's Ex- sell was unexpected in Britain reaction be the antidote to revolu- culminated, in either case, in abso- treme-Right Arrow Cross party, and generally in France, Consequently, it is a fact of SOUTH TERRACE, FEDIANTLE The cnaos and disorienta- lute State control and in the fur- and notoriously obtained their retion. It means BEST BRANDS STOCKED tion that are part of war's after- ther control of that State, with lease from the interment to which peculiar importance. subjected that the majority of the French math provide a familiar breeding all its machinery of power and the new regime bad Newly Furnished Throughout a direction declaration are calling a halt to the Those propaganda, by one political party them by signing ALL WELCOME. ground for revolution. who have lost everything the frus- and the rejection of the objective that they had exchanged an old imposed upon the French GovernG. MULCAHY, Proprietor. do It for a new-to Communists. of and justice. allegiance by French law party ment extremists Character cynical, the and trated
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