French troops mounted guard at Buckingham Palace and British at the Elysee Palace yesterday 8th of April to commemorate the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.
The reigning Monarch in London in 1904 was Edward VII, “Edward the Caresser.” A Dubliner’s quip that there was “more Pox than Pax” in His Majesty is recorded in Ulysses.
The young and politically innocent MP David Lloyd George, visiting the ex-Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, when asked what he thought of the Entente ” assured him that he was delighted that our snarling and scratching relations with France had come to an end at last.”
Rosebery replied – “You are all wrong. It means war with Germany in the end.”
I quote the first paragraph of Lloyd George’s WAR MEMOIRS, a work of nearly 1,100 pages.
The secret Committee of Imperial Defence was set up at that time and plotted that aggression. It included both Conservative Unionist and Liberal Imperialist Front Benchers and did not slacken its labours even when Henry Campbell Bannerman, a statesman of humane and ethical principles, was Prime Minister “In the years 1905 to his death in 1908.” He was succeeded by Asquith who was part of the warmongering conspiracy.
The BBC endorsed with approval the celebration of the conspiracy whose execution was rewarded with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Second World War and numerous evils threatening the extinction of life on earth today.
By coincidence, yesterday, while Buckingham Palace was being Guarded by French and the Elysee by British troops, I watched a film version of Erskine Childers’ 1903 thriller THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, which deliberately prepared British public opinion for war on Germany.
H.G. Wells and others were for years writing similar propaganda.
It seems to me that today the governments and alternate governments of virtually all the Western Powers and their hangers-on belong to a death cult embracing abortion, “assisted dying” and wars of aggression.
I was lucky, born into an oasis of peace, sanity and tranquillity in a world of horror. I blame my luck on Eamon De Valera and Fianna Fail.
If you doubt me I suggest you key in HOWTH REGATTA AND LAMBAY RACES 1942 on You Tube. It is an amateur movie, shot in colour, with a sound-track added in recent years.
Another amateur movie ONCE UPON A TRAM, with a commentary by Cyril Cusack, was shot in colour in 1959, just before the Hill of Howth Tram was replaced by a bus service.
Taken together they depict a state where there was neither war nor conscription, social unrest or serious crime. They give the lie to the “history” dished out by Fintan O’Toole and other “revisionists.”
I was born 28 December 1941 on the Feast of The Holy Innocents. The Feast commemorates the Infants slaughtered by King Herod.
About 3 weeks after my birth at a meeting near Berlin the Nazis determined to murder all of Europe’s Jews.
It seems to me that some people today have already out-Herod Herod, and intend to out-Hitler Hitler.
Another very good piece. It is incredible listening to those tin soldiers constantly harping on about Russia or China or whichever enemy they think we should distrust. Poppycock. No Russian or Chinese ever called me Fenian.