Good man, and is doing the job well, It's only natural that the people should be thankful for what he's done. 'Entirely different,' snorted my friend, remaining curiously sane, 'Britain's got a Job to do, and Churchill's at the head of the Government that's doing it. I mentioned the result of my modest researches. Īnd outside the shop, I met a friend who, singularly unfortunate in his Bolshevik acquaintances, believed that the Soviet creed was that there was no God, but if there were, Lenin and Stalin, like Caligula, had undergone apotheosis in his lifetime. While I was talking, a lady came in and bought a pencil drawing of General Freyberg.Īnd one remembers, of course, the Coronation. I asked an assistant in one book shop how many pictures of Mr Churchill she sold daily.
In bookshops, Mr Churchill's likeness stared at me from almost every periodical and a number of books. Walking up the main street of the smallish town in which I live, I counted the number of pictures of Mr Winston Churchill in shop windows. For servility implies a hierarchy and exploitation, and an inculcated hero-worship implies a lack of other emotional outlets. Webb), if it is an expression of cringing servility such as characterised the worship of the 'Little Father,' if Stalin and Lenin have in fact been deified to take the place of God which Marxist theory is busy demolishing- then we are justified in doubting whether the Soviet system is really such a fine thing as the daily papers, with suspicious suddenness, are making out. If it is really the result of 'the deliberate exploitation by the governing junta of the emotion of hero-worship' (S. This question of Stalin-worship isn't funny, as it might seem at first sight. And when we see the photographs of demonstrations in Russia, with their numerous enormous banners depicting the singularly unattractive Bust of Lenin and Stalin when we read even scientific reports studded with somewhat Fulsome praises of Stalin when we study some of the remarkable speeches in favour of The Soviet leaders at public functions-every person with any taste at all must be a Little discomfited. It must be admitted that passages like this, occurring in reports of meetings of high Soviet Governmental bodies, are a little dampening to the enthusiasm of would-be supporters of Soviet Russia. Shouts of "Long live our leader, Comrade Stalin, hurrah!"'
Shouts from all parts of the hall: "Long live Comrade Stalin!" All stand and sing the "Internationale," after which the ovation is resumed.
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