We are assured that novel methods
will be adopted, and when we see
the originality of malice, the in-
genuity of aggression, which our
enemy displays, we may certainly
prepare ourselves for every kind
of novel stratagem and every kind
of brutal and treacherous maneuver.
to the House of Commons on June 4,
1940 - one American Presidential
term of time, before D-Day - made
plain the quality of an enemy then
in a death grapple with civiliza-
tion as his language had come to
know, indeed to parent it. Famous-
ly promising to fight them on the
beaches, in the fields, and in a
cadence of permutations memorized
by generations of grateful school
boys since, he concluded by fore-
telling a rescue of the Old World
by the New. Recently, the whole
story was filmed again, and very
well. A soldier read his speech.
The Senate of the United States
is now the quisling of an unrep-
resentative and self-seeking pow-
er, frantic to deliver a third
branch of the national government
to its clutches for a lifetime.
Recalling Franklin, they had damn
A lifetime, thieved from the na-
tion by an originality of malice
and an ingenuity of aggression,
exploiting every kind of brutal
and treacherous maneuver embed-
ded in its arcane, self-endowed
procedures, seemingly beyond the
resistance of the People it must
dominate, to abuse at will.
At the same time, Americans con-
template the confusion and chaos
sow in the Old World, to cast it
into a Hobbesian abyss Churchill
described so long in advance. They
don't expect a rescue of the New
World by the Old. But they see,
they are an island, of a 'roused
and coincidental yeomanry of re-
sistance against misrule in the
subverted halls of their defense.
It's not a movie. It's a language.
Fionn Whitehead
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