The Chesterton family were ever friends to the nationalist cause. Whatever flaws they as individuals had were minor ones; their hearts were in the right place. It gives me great pride that I wrote an article for the magazine founded by A K Chesterton, Candour, which itself was the successor to Cecil Chesterton's New Witness and which I advise everyone to support by purchasing their literature etc. They also publish many books worth reading. Perhaps G K Chesterton's biggest flaw was that he only made it half-way to Paganism in adopting Roman Catholicism as his religion, in spite of him acknowledging that the things he loved in life and culture were the remnants of our Pagan past, and he often railed against the Puritan wellspring of liberalism and capitalism. In this article, which is as much for our time as that of 1917, he highlights the conspiracy of the media, for which he would probably be called a conspiracy theorist today, in spite of every word he says about the media being true. The end paragraph refers to the Marconi Scandal and how the media avoided naming the principle movers and shakers in the corruption as Jewish.
The following article was first published in Candour Magazine, Volume 75, Number 4, Issue 857.
G. K. Chesterton
"It is the fashion to divide recent
history into Pre-War and Post-War conditions. I believe it is almost as
essential to divide them into the Pre-Marconi and Post-Marconi days. It
was during the agitations upon that affair that the ordinary English
citizen lost his invincible ignorance; or, in ordinary language, his
innocence […] I think it probable that centuries will pass before it is
seen clearly and in its right perspective; and
that then it will be seen as one of the turning-points in the whole
history of England and the world." — G. K. Chesterton, 1936
The Marconi Scandal is an episode that has disappeared down the
memory hole of history. There are reasons for this, as will be
explained. It was a very complex series of events that have been
difficult to distil into a short article such as this without leaving
out anything essential. Nonetheless, I believe I have condensed the most
important events and actions in this sordid affair. Firstly, we must
begin with a little background history.
