Yes. Not only is Europe going red. It seems that the signpost of history points this way, and all the world la following on. Auckland students' paper "Craccum" recently delivered, editorially, a medieval sneer at the "brute" militance of New Zealand's Labour movement But let us "intellectuals" wake up to the fact that Caliban is rising in his strength, the "Man with the hoe" is asking the question that demands an answer:

"How will the future reckon with this man?
"How answer his brute question in that hour
"When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all the shores?
"How will it be with kingdoms and with kings,
"With those who shaped him to the thing he is—
When this dumb terror shall rise to judge the world
After the silence of the centuries?"

We workers of the mind must declare our allegiance, and declare it now. With events in Europe and in Asia we cannot plead Ignorance of the fact that we are living in an age of revolution. Professor Joliot-Curle, Dr. J. D, Bernal, Lords Ara-gon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Robeson, Thomas Mann, the Dean of Canterbury, and thousands of other responsible intellectuals have given a lead. Remember the words of C. Day. Lewis:

"Yet living here
As one between two massing powers I live
Whom neutrality cannot save
Nor occupation cheer.
"None such shall be left alive
The innocent wing is soon shot down
And private stars fade in the blood-red dawn
Where two worlds strive.
"The red advance of life
Contracts pride, calls out the common blood,
Heats song into a single blade
Makes a depth-charge of grief.
"Move then with, new desires
For where we used to build and love
Is no-man's land, and only ghosts can live
Between two fires."

—Partisan.