It Is Strange To Realise How Large A Part The
puny triumph plays in Nazi, and indeed in Fascist, mentality. How indicative of the uncertain and therefore ungenerous mind is this delight in small humiliations, in the tweak......
Assuredly It Is A Sorry Thing That We In England
should celebrate the turn of the year by so puny and jocose a festival. Why should we disfigure that happy day by send- ing people on false errands, by providing them with false......
We Are All, I Suppose, Possessed Of Prejudices Which May,
or may not, derive from painful experience in childhood. I cannot remember that I have ever suffered much from prac- tical jokes. My dislike of that ungainly form of humour is,......
This, I Feel, May Be A Lesson Which In Our
great crisis can be taught us by the grotesque silliness of our April cele- bration. When I was a child it was a delight to me to inform my nurse, on April 1st, that her......
The French Are Well Aware, Of Course, That With The
coming of the spring something affects the fancy of the young men and foolish things are apt to happen : " Quant les feves sont en fleur Les fous sont en vigueur." But even in......
I Have Heard That In The Villages Of Bavaria And
Thuringia it is otherwise. There, upon the first of April, the young men disguise themselves as trees, are sprinkled with water by the maidens, and thereafter discard their......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is a cause of regret that we, who live for so many months under the pall of winter or in the harshness of a retarded spring, should possess no myth or......
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