IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE
This four page
article by Johns is a run through of history where people thought things were
dire. “Those who had the misfortune to
live in Europe in the fifth century might well have thought their time had
come, with a playboy by the name of Attila, and his engaging horde of thugs,
pouring across from the east, leaving everything flat behind them. Attila’s methods would make modern warfare
look like a kindergarten outfit. Right
across Europe to the heart of France swept this yellow gangster, calling himself
King of the Huns, the Goths, the Danes,
and the Medes, the Scourge of God and the Dread of the World – a pretty
mouthful of terror-propaganda that makes Lord Haw-Haw’s vapourings sound like a
squeak in a thunderstorm. Attila, like
all other thugs, finally bit off more than he could chew when he bumped into
Theodoric at Chalons, and the people forthwith picked
up their tools and went on with their work”.
“What about the Napoleonic era?
What a shadow we lived under then.
But it wasn’t the end of anything – except Bony. If England could weather such storms as
these, there isn’t much to get upset about now.
So don’t worry. The old world
will go spinning along to its terminus – wherever that may be – regardless of
Hitler or anyone else”.