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The spirit of subversion became entrenched in the public schools and
universities-that is, in institutions of what should have
been the nation's elite, charged especially with the task of
preserving the national tradition and heritage. This explains
something of the notorious Ox'ford Union resolution of the
early 'thirties: "Under no circumstances will this House
might for King and Country". The same motion, introduced
this year (1965), was defeated because Reginald Maudling
stressed Britain's obligation to meet her Nato commitments !
T h e Zeitgeist, however, does not furnish the full explana-
tion of the attack on the British spirit. Every year it spent
in opposition the Labour Party voted with monotonous
regularity against the Service Estimates. The Independent
Labour Party, the Communist Party and the Fabian Society
could always be relied upon to support the pacifist cause
everywhere on earth-except, of course, in Soviet Russia.
Pacifism among the young was carried to almost unbeliev-
able limits. Many educational authorities, for instance,
holding that the word "drill" had undesirable military
connotations, decreed that the school period hitherto known
as "physical drill" should be renamed "physical exercise".
Not long afterwards schools were told to abandon march-
ing, presumably on the ground that if children went from
one place to another as a disciplined body rather than as an
unruly rabble, they would grow up with the ambition to
march to war. The final absurdity was reached when the
educational authorities insisted that physical exercises
should consist only of games of the children's own choice,
without words of command issued by the teacher in charge.
This would eliminate all suggestion of a parade-ground
atmosphere.
In other words, as a long-term policy the British peoples
were being softened-up. Disarmed physically and, through
the deliberate denigration of patriotism and a proper pride,
spiritually, they were made ready for a takeover bid. By
whom? Some would say "by the Communists". My own
reply would be : by the new world power which saw-and
sees-the possibility of using both Communism and Loan-
Capitalism as twin instruments with which to subdue and
govern, not the British nations alone, but all mankind.
- "The New Unhappy Lords" by A. K. Chesterton, 1965