George Washington or Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest iliaing in history; Scotland's Wil-Nam "Wallace was an atrocious ruflan; and Moses, Joshua, Samuel David were monsters of cruelty.
"Theoe were the opinions expressed Poor, the is developing a habit of Lord Raglan, Britain's sei Marlling and. revolutionary views. Recently he astounded British aristo-cruel by tolling it that the Norman which many of the ancient imilieg claimed were all fakes.
His latest pronouncement was at meeting of the Society of Friends.
"geo teh "children are taught that shat atrocious ruffian William Wal: Jace was a chivalrous hero. We shall fave to revise religious teaching since it holds up to the young, as patterns of morality, euch Of cruelty as Moses, Joshua, Samuel and David, whose atrocities exceed anything that was alleged agains:
if, gnemigs in the last war, imbe circumstances of the case un the two American civil wars were Very similar. It therefore follows That either George Washington or Abraham. Lincoln wag one of thy villains in history. You can fake your choice which."
"We are brought up to, believe,' Lord "Raglan continued, "that Englishman ig superior' by nature t0'8 Frenchman, and that a Euro-can is naturally superior to an} Kalatic. "These are. mischievous falsehoods. The Red Indian is still thought to be a funny man' with feathers in his hair. Such teaching tends to leave in the child's mind ar Impression of unbridgeable chasms. The Oriental is no more inscrutable than the grocer: the savage is cer-fainly lees childlike than the sports fan.
Lord Raglan asserted that mould be impossible for the League of Nations to function untos it in- th Gluded the whole world, but. "once the world was included, then Java, with "population of 5,000,000, would be entitled to the same representation at Geneva as Britain, "India and China might then combine and gain control of the Leagu could then abolish. wester <eivillsation and abolish Christianity.
He challenged anyone to produc 'a case where armaments have can sed a war, or lack of armaments
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