‘Scramble’, in Defence of Our Homeland!
By Max Musson: As many in this country prepare to mark the 70th Anniversary of VJ Day, the allied victory over Japan which brought World War II to an end, the Daily Mail website features an absurd story claiming that many ‘Britons’ show a shocking lack of knowledge of the key events of that war and World War I that preceded it. Of course, any self-respecting member of the British public will have a good working…
War and the Breed
By Max Musson: On this 100th Anniversary of the start of World War One, the ‘Great War’, I am reminded of a very moving book that I have in my possession written in 1915 by David Starr Jordan, then Chancellor of Leland Stanford University, in which he documents prophetically the tragically dysgenic effects of modern warfare on the populations of Europe. Below, I reproduce adapted slightly, the Foreword to Jordan’s book, written by J.W. Jamieson, which most succinctly summarises…