ANOTHER CRISIS IN BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 41, 19 January 1945, Page 4

ANOTHER CRISIS IN BRITAIN

"IF English genius is to vie with the genius of France an& Germany-—if the primacy of English political wisdom and the one-time glory of English verse and prose are to comfe again, the change of temper brought about by the Battle of Europe must, as it were, rise upwards. The nation is far ahead of its leaders. Cabinet Ministers make speeches that no one wishes to hear. Ecclesiastics talk about housing and the profit motive when a spiritual message is required. And the 'literati' persist in the mass production of the frothy pubulum that leaves the hungry public hungrier than it was before. A,' few isolated men of letters and of religion are grappling earnestly with the modern Crisis in Britain, but there are, as yet, no signs, as there are in France and Germany, that the crisis will be mastered in the only way it can be mastered, in the way that must be our way also —a sustained critical outlook, a deepening of the inner life, and the recognition of eternal values.— don "Nineteenth Century" editorial.