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Almost everything, which is most precious in our Civilisation, has come from small States.
Part 2 It is no idle fancy to suppose that the kind of policy which the Prussian Government has thought fit to adopt towards alien nationalities of the German Empire has reacted upon the treatment of those German parties whose views do not accord with the strict official convention. No Conservative English statesman would ever dream of denouncing English socialists as Prince von Bulow treated the German Poles. It
is impossible accurately to assess the value to a nation of self-esteem, which
is the legacy of its history. People who weigh everything in material scales may find nothing worth preserving in the historical conscience of the small nations of Europe. They will argue that the Dutch, the Belgians, the Danes, the Swiss, might be incorporated into the German Empire not only without pain but with a positive accession of material comfort and wealth, and a larger political outlook in the future. [Yes! the above was written in 1915 during a Great World War where we alone lost a million dead. Now in 2005 the same question is being discussed about the viability of small Nation-States, which has been vindicated by them being shown to be the most efficient and prosperous and happy people particularly if they are outside the EU.] They [Germans] will even deny that there need be any moral impoverishment in an exchange of historical memories, under which the incorporated Dutchman would hook himself on to a German pedigree and count Bismarck and Moltke among his deities, while the Dutch sea-dogs of the heroic age would give their names to the cruisers and submarines of the incorporating Empire. In all such reasoning there is very little allowance for
the facts of human nature or for the working of the moral principle in
man. As no individual can break violently with the past
without a moral lesion, so too the rupture of the historical continuity of a
State carries with it an inevitable weakening and abasement of public ideals,
which may continue for several generations. [Is not this happening in Britain in 2005 as depicted in an excellent article by a Professor of Economics Richard Layard at the London School of Economics in a Saturday essay in the Daily Mail on Saturday, 26th February, 2005. of a People who are richer and healthier and yet they are NOT happier. We shall hope to bring this enlightening essay to you on our Bulletin Board - shortly.] We need not labour to establish a principle, which is grounded on such obvious facts of individual conscience. But one historical instance may be adduced in support. When in 1580 Portugal was annexed to Spain, then reputed
to be the most formidable empire in the world, she suffered a moral as well as
a political eclipse from which she has never since recovered. [1915] Her
nerve seemed to go and by swift stages she sank into listlessness and decay. [In 2005 - Portugal has GDP of 2.4 -indexed at 100
compared to UK 2.8 -indexed at 117] Nowhere is the shaping power of this historical consciousness more evident than in the peasant nations of the Balkan Peninsula. These rude and valiant democracies live upon the memories of the past to an extent of which sophisticated peoples have little notion. [In 2005 - We now have British forces in the EU force
in Bosnia where a previous Liberal parliamentary leader Paddy Ashdown a
Bilderberger is now some say- their Dictator.] The great ballad, which commemorates the battle of Kossovo,
fought against the Turks more than five hundred years ago, is still one of the most
important political influences among the southern Slavs. Nor has the memory of the empire of Stephen Dushan,
under whom Serbia was the leading Power in the Balkans, ever been
allowed to fade among the Serbs, despite tragedies sufficient to break the
spirit of a less stalwart race. To rob the Serbs of their political independence according to the present plan of the German Powers would be a measure difficult to surpass for cruel and purposeless futility. A
race which had succeeded in preserving its historical consciousness through
centuries of grinding Turkish tyranny would not be likely to renounce its past
or its future under the guns of Austria. And even if the improbable came to pass, and a conquered Serbia were to become an obedient and contented fraction of hardiness and valour, would there be no loss of moral power in the process. To those who measure all virtues by the standard of
civic virtue, by intensity of emotional and practical patriotism, the loss
would be beyond dispute. A great incentive to the performance of unselfish action would be destroyed; a source of heroic and congenial activity would disappear never to be replaced. Under the hypothesis the Serbs would sink below the level
of their blood kinsmen the Slovaks, who, despite the manifold oppressions of
their Hungarian masters, still nurture a flame of protesting nationalism. From such political apostasy no nation
could ever expect to make a complete moral recovery. It may be objected that the whole process of European history is summed up by the absorption of the smaller in the larger States; and if Hanover is reconciled to absorption there is no reason why Holland, Denmark, and Belgium should lodge a protest in advance against their impending fate. To this contention there is a simple answer. These outlying nations can only be brought into the German fold under compulsion. Their frame of mind is not German, their habits are not German, their history for the last four centuries [written in 1915] has served to multiply points of difference from Germany. They have no desire to submit themselves either to the military or to the financial system of the German Empire. They are not ashamed of their present condition, and are singular enough to hold that human happiness and goodness do not depend upon the size of an Army or Navy or a Budget. It is enough that the citizen of each of these States can call his country his own. Patriotism has nothing whatever to do with spatial neither
extent nor are emotions to be measured by square miles. Great empires are generally full of the
variances of unassimilated and discontented men; and though a country may be weak or small, it may
yet be capable of inspiring among its inhabitants the noblest and purest forms
of affectionate devotion. Indeed, the supreme touchstone of efficiency in imperial government
lies in its capacity to preserve the small State in the Great Union. If the British Empire has succeeded in
retaining the affections of its scattered members, the result has been due to
the wise and easy tolerance, which has permitted almost every form of
religious, political, and social practice to continue unchecked, however greatly
they may vary from the established traditions of the English race. Thus in the province of Quebec we suffer the existence of a French ultramontane state based on the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, and preserving even to this day many of the special features of a French colony in the age of Louis XIV, a community more extreme in its ecclesiastical rigour than any Roman Catholic state in Europe, and in language, religion, and social habits presenting the sharpest contrast to the English provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The same careful deference to the pre-existing conditions is shown in every part of our Indian administration, which caries tenderness to the religious scruples of the Mohammedans and Hindoos to the point of delicate solicitude, which no Government in the world has ever before attempted, and only the most practised experience can supply. [The above description of the manner of the governance
of our Empire deserves much credit- not as in 2005 with obloquy. The OBE should be maintained as an honour
for any citizen of our Island wherever they had their roots.] These, however, are not the methods of the German Empire, nor can they be the methods of any empire, which practices a uniform and universal system of military conscription. As soon as the words State and Army become coterminous, a
philosophy of violent unification is set up within the body politic, which
sooner or later carries everything before it, save the spiritual forces
which cannot be broken by any machinery, however despotic and powerful. The Germans have not succeeded in winning either the Poles or the Danes or the Alsatians to their rule, because they have repeated the mistake which England made in Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and which England has never since ceased to lament. They have attempted to manufacture German citizens by violence; and the history of Alsace-Lorraine under imperial rule has shown how little the policy of violence, however carefully it may be masked by specious political concessions, is availing to change the spiritual allegiance of a people. Indeed the case of Alsace-Lorraine supplies a fair indication of the misfortunes, which would ensue upon the compulsory annexation of any one of the small States of Europe by a big military Power. [How
ironic that in 2005 the German nation has almost achieved its object from 90
years ago by absorbing the nations of Europe and if we are stupid enough to
agree the new European Constitution our own Ancient Kingdom will also
join them. Why we fought two world wars with the great losses in life and the economic devastation which followed the Second World War in order to defend the small nation-states of Europe and our own Island Home and interests world-wide in order to give up those very Liberties and Ancient Constitution will be a mystery to baffle future historians-if it happens? If it comes to pass- it will be the greatest indictment against the moral fibre of a people with the oldest TRUE Parliamentary Democracy in the world-known as the Mother of Parliaments. What Mother gives away its love and ideals for an enslavement in an undemocratic Police State where there will reign an Elite, which will put the old Communist Proletariat in the shade? Germany and France with their close links and large
combined population of over 137,000,000 with their adjoining borders will
lord it over the other members of the United States of Europe - that
you can be sure of. The UK will no longer be a United Kingdom at all and will only have its Regions, which will be area offices of The Brussels HQ through which the EU will speak on their behalf. But
don’t take our word for it - for details of the New European Constitution
consult our Bulletin Board and independent observers -their web sites and
contact telephone numbers available.] To continue: It is not to be imagined that the forced union of these two provinces [Alsace-Lorraine] with Germany has been productive of material injury. On the contrary, they have shared in the expanding industry and commerce of the [German] Empire, and any loss in population due to the emigration of the French has been more than compensated by the influx of Germans. Nevertheless, they have been and continue to be unhappy under the Prussian yoke, Alsace more unhappy than Lorraine, but both sensible of the fact that while material interest binds them to Prussia, the voice of spiritual affinity unites them with the French republic. Statistics indeed prove that, even allowing for immigration, the Germans are still in a majority in a minority in the two provinces; but this fact in itself is not sufficient to account for the continuing attraction of the French republic, despite the strong material inducements offered by the other side. The phenomenon indeed is worthy of attention. Here are two provinces, which never enjoyed political independence or the sense of cohesion, which such independence confers. For the greater part of their history they have counted as members of the German confederation; for Alsace only became part of France in 1648, and Lorraine was not effectively incorporated in the French monarchy till 1764. And yet, though they had been replaced in their original German connection, the natives remain French at heart. The explanation is simple. The French Revolution initiated these two provinces into the democratic ideals of the modern world, which the majority of the inhabitants still continue to prefer to the Prussian doctrine of blood and iron and to the methods of the Prussian garrison at Zabern. The truth is that the quantitive estimate of human
values, which plays so large a part in modern political history, is radically
false and tends to give a vulgar instead of a liberal and elevated turn to
public ambitions. There is no virtue, public or private which cannot be practised as fully in a small and weak state as under the sceptre of the most formidable tyrant who ever drove fifty army corps of conscripts to the slaughter. There is no
grace of soul, no disinterested endeavour of mind, no pitch of unobtrusive
self-sacrifice of which the
members of small and pacific communities have not repeatedly shown themselves
to be capable. These virtues indeed may be imperilled by lethargy, but they are threatened even more gravely by that absorbing preoccupation with the facts of material power in which the citizens of great empires are inevitably involved. The great danger of Continental Europe is not revolution but servitude. This war [1915] could never have been possible if the intellect of Germany had been really free, if a servile Press supported by the system of State universities had not instilled into the vast mass of the German people ruthless maxims of Caesarism, for the most part repugnant to their real temperament and nature. There
are other military autocracies besides Germany and the other countries in which
political thought is fettered by the Government. But
whatever may be their several shortcomings, the smaller States of Europe are
not among the despots. Here at least
men can think what they please, and write what they think. Whenever the small States may come up for
judgement the advocate of human freedom will plead on their behalf. * * * [Fonts altered-bolding &Underlining used-comments in brackets. * [The gist of the above lecture by historian respected H.A.L Fisher is of the importance of the smaller States particularly in their ability to prosper in the intellectual and other fields of research and their loyalty to their beginnings in their respective history. In 2005 we have the situation of many smaller States in Europe in the process of being absorbed into the United States of Europe of course on this occasion by peaceful means but that does not negate the great harm that will ensue from putting the individual characteristics of each country into a melting pot in order for the Union to achieve its formless society. As Mr Fisher warned of the loss of the free spirit of individual achievement which will be hampered by not allowing the Smaller nation-states to remain outside a mammoth nonentity such as the inappropriately named United (?) States of Europe. It is appropriate in this year of the Anniversary of
the battle of Trafalgar when on a grey October day on the 21st - Nelson won an annihilating victory
over Villeneuve, commanding the French-Spanish fleet - which to the end of the
war established beyond challenge the English mastery of the seas. Attacking in double column with twenty-seven of sale of the line he destroyed the combine fleets of France and Spain which had been lured out of Cadiz harbour to their doom. As William Pitt -Prime Minister stated: ‘England has saved herself by her exertions; and will as I trust, save Europe by her example ‘ [ the words were spoken by William Pitt after the
victory at Trafalgar- a few weeks later on the 9th November 1805] So it is two-hundred years later in 2005 that the people of our Island must reject the New European Constitution in order to as stated above- ‘To save Europe by her
example’ * * * In answer to Mr Blair’s attempt to undermine the Magna
Carta and the Petition of Right in order to take away the fundamental freedom
of the British people in the Prevention of terrorism Bill passed by the House
of Commons yesterday the 1st March 2005 which will be as destructive
to our Constitution in its effect world wide as that attack on Pearl Harbour on the morning of December 7th 1941 when as it was said at
the time was ‘an act of infamy’ Mr Blair ‘Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.’ [William Pitt-1783]
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The abolition of Britain * Veteran parliamentarian TONY BENN speaks of the absolute necessity of a REFERENDUM HEAR HIM ON http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o0I-ZdvQz1o * * 13th October,2007
So You Want Out Of The EU
THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OptoutDetails from petition creator With the signing of the Maastricht Treaty the people of Britain were given DUAL CITIZENSHIP -both EUROPEAN and BRITISH The extra tier of citizenship was thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases knowledge. The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted out with BRITISH DOCUMENTATION -only such as British (not EU) passports, driving licences and other national documents. EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
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