THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER I 1999
& CHRISTIAN POSITION IN THE PRESENT WAR
ble enemy,.:
No wonder there is no enthusiasm,
gates and arranged matters in such a way that the infiltration of Ruúslán dens must inevitablęż follow, pračun)” ly at first, but rapfily Inter when sur- fering and misery, discontent and strikes have done tier work, and so mdermined the whole German struc- ture of society an Hillér conceived. It. Ha foresaw this in his book Mein Kampf, and yet he risks, it in face of
› Russin fő still the greatest menace
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CHRISTIAN POSITION..
the What then is the position of
this matter? average Christian in Let G. K Chesterton be the guide:- "There is nothing that really indicates a subtle, and in the true sense, superior mind so much as this power of comparing a lower thing with a higher and yet that higher with higher still; of thinking on three planes at once. There is nothing that wants the rarest sort of wisdom so much as
KUHN BAIL FIXED AT LARGE SUM
New York, Tog
day. Fritz Kuhn, leader of the Ger man-American Bund, who la un- der Indictment for grand larceny and forgery, has again been re-h fused, a reduction in his ball.
His ball has been fixed In £10,, 000 Router,
be accused of committing the mistake which they condemned in their sentors. Siegfried Sassoon is very bitter in his war poems about this:
"Squire nagged and bullied till. I
went to fight (Under Lord Derby's scheme)."
died in bell-
(They called it Passchendaele); my
wound was slight,
And I was hobbling back, and then
a shell
Burst slick upon the duck-boards;
so I fell
Into the bottomless mud, and lost
the light..
In sermon-time, while Squire is in
his pew,
He gives my gilded name a thought-
ful stare;.
For though low down upon the list.
I'm there:
“IT IS BECAUSE HALF of Europe knows so clearly what he regards as over a greater per-
* what is all means in life and property, what suf-il on the western front.
fering and depression must follow, that there to Germany, just as she has quietly, seems to be an air of unreality about the whole calmly and without the expenditure of thing, says St. John's Review,'' in a comment Poland, with Lemberg: and the Gall- a single rifle shot taken possession of
on the outbreak of war,
cián 64 fields, so too her doctrines will Says the "Review”.
take possession of the minds of Ger- Ithough that is the lesson that was in- Since the last Issue of this Journal stilled up to a month ago. Suddenly man workers with the greatest case. tragic events have taken place in German people have been called upon
What Hitler fears most must come Europe. In the short space of three to work up hate against a new foe about no matter what the issue of the weeks, Poland, a country of twenty France. and Britain-one who has not war may be, and it was to protect his million people, has been overrun, up till now figured prominently in people against this so called insidious after having been invaded, attacked schools, camps and houses as a possi-influence that he justified his claim to with the most deadly weapons, and
power and filled the concentration finally subdued. The elemental forces
camps with those who opposed still control man's lustful ambition, since the task of overrunning and
his view and supported commu- greed for power, pride in conquest, and sadism or pleasure in contemplat-destroying the independence of small nism. Evidently he regards the menace something ing the suffering of others. But we forces is not quite the same as facing very serious when He takes, such riska
We states with mighty armies and air on the western front as are only at the beginning of the tragedy. Poland is merely a one act two enemies who are not so, weak and and violates his oft proclaimed prin-
ciples. play, a prelude to the terrible drama defenceless, but extremely powerful.
NO ALTERNATIVE that is about to be unfolded, not on the stage unfortunately, but in real
No leader has ever gone so reluc- life. There is something inexpressibly tantly into war as our Premier. It is sad in this present conflict, seeing that because he is the one who says there half the population are only too well fis no alternative, that we are compell- aware, from their knowledge of the ed to accept his decision. Had it been last war what is in front of us a any other man in authority we might long protracted struggle, wide-spread have had a slight suspicion that war grief and sorrow at the loss of vigor might have been avoided, but when ous, and whalesime young men, whose Mr. Chamberlain says it is impossible parents have expended so much lov-to stay out, then even the people of ing care and thought on their up-Germany must pause and think, for bringing; sons, just ready for their the Prime Minister was definitely more
to see, let us say, that the citizen is professional career, many of whom acceptable to the German people be- higher than the slave and yet that will be destroyed in the spring time cause of his desire for peace than their citizen or the city. It is not by any the soul is infinitely higher than the of their life.
own leader was. It was as though
means a faculty that commonly be- NO ZEGT
they said at the time of the Munich longs to these simplifiers of the Apart from that however, the old Hitler admitted in Danzig that pact, we know there is a just cause Gospel, those who issist on what they experienced men gained the sort of there was
among Ger for war in this, but you have refrain-call a simple morality and others call experience in the last war and in the mans for this great trial or Strength fed from making it one and we
a sentimental morality. It is not at post war period, which was likely to that waited them It may be grateful.
all covered by those who are content make them use every effort to ward › thal Germans who have The Prime Minister represented
to tell everybody to remain at peace. off all future wars. Certainly been in Hitler Jugend and them the civilian side of life the who have learned to star. the peaceful pursuit of industry and coming ample of it in the apparent in- and most certainly the Prime Minis- On the contrary there is a very strik-jingoist was in the British Cabinet, Horst Weste, sprig about the glory of merce with his civilian dress, his consistency between Christ's sayings ter was, a man of appeasement, if war, and the honour of dying on the mellow voice and ripe, experience. about peace and about a sword. It not a pacifist, and yet in spite of all battle field for, the flag, the Swastik visits to Germany Introduced a new and their Fuehrer, are full of martial note, the non-military note,
is precisely this power which per their efforts young men are once more which ceives that while a good peace is to be hurled into the arena of war. ardour, • No country in the world has dope more to impart this spirit to its Mr. Chamberlain then decides
many were yearning to hear, When better than a good war, even a good It is they who feel that the issue can- youth, and thereby to destroy the nawar with Germany must come, then
that war is better than a bad peace." not be avoided, that if the liberties
It cannot be said of this war that of free peoples are to be preserved tural! you and create in His place these same German people who ap- the young men have been driven into then the overthrow of Nazism must the strained, tunge, harrow, but loyal proved his peace efforts must wonder it because of the bad statesmanship be undertaken. Neither old nor young patriot
where their policy has gone wrong.
and enthusiasm of the old men for want this war, but all feel that the HITLER, FORESAW
a cause they could not fight for. The duty must be discharged. There is no older generation which was the youth-excitement, no flag wagging, just ful one in the last war can hardly quiet determination.
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But there is another group in Ger- many; which has hỏ: Illusions about
It is indeed extraordinary that Hit- war, that group of men and women ler should have brought Russia to his over forty have been through 'all' the horrors and sufferings of the last war,... These
are bewildered; while they may ho for "victory “be- cause of the pellet in the infallibility, of their leader, there is ever "present" the fear of defeat These people have been kept a state of nervous ten- sion for the
ing wheth would adu
involve
feat, wit
years of mer
years, wonder- successive coup greatness or
war and possible de-
etition of "the "twenty,
Árið physical distress. MONAL SHOCKS, Success on previous occasions was, gained so easily, juhfil finally it was taken for granted it would follow in the case of Poland. Such is the dan- ger of a state that closes its doors and prevents a true picture of the outside world front bellir Been. ***
The moral shock when the Russian- German pact was signed, rendered to the German people as a whole, must have reached its ollmax. when the in- ternational was sung loudly, and open- ly in the cafes of Berlin, on the night; the Russian-Cirman pact was Bigned. A month before or even less, such an act would have led the singers straight to a concentration camp.
and
PRE-LOUT MKANING • Germany has been nourished keyed hip for a Nanggainst* Commu- niam for the past six years, and just before that war is stored the interna- tional anthem of communism is sung wita bestzust by the opportunists. vation, training, and miany Hig” fost spirit and purpose
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