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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980.
THE CHURCH FACES REDS
By the Rev. Charles Haig
1
overcome, by
by dimed force.
will only cɛnse to menace the world when, in every country justice, is done between employer should have the trecabin to icain) and cumployed, noll men on dine- the truth and to spread it.
The Christan Church hai been m the thick of the Battles of the last 20 years. First of al it was the Nazis who were th
Bible. For the Communist the persequtors. Today it is th
Church and its views can have no Cornmunists who are throwin.
bearing on the class struggle, and Protestant pastors and Roma. when the victory of the proleta- Catholic priests into prison, bulat is come there will be no fiore cause they will not preneli a deed for its work of comfort. they are told or submit to th The Church is radically oppos loss of their schools.
ed to all dictatorship, whether of Yet in 1030 supporters of
the Right or of the Left, for it United Front, were arguing that believes that men should have Communism was hot opposed to freedom to shape society. Only Avision of equality and Christianity itself but only to re- thus can they exercise their res actionary churches which supponsibility to love their neigh- ported the old régime, Events in bour. The Soviet state denies this Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechos-right for it permits only one lovakin today have shown that party to exist. the Communists seek to throttle or neutralise all the churches.
Finally, the Church cannot brook Iron Curtains, or the use of to prevent free con- munication. It believes that men
The fact is that the churches.authority Sev Through Communism and point out its errors about God and man. They stand for the truths which Communism rejecu, and therefore as long as they are able to speak openly they weaken the "dictatorship of the
asiat." They remind men that prolo-
God is higher than Stalin, and that every man is responsible to:
God first and to the movement second.
Points of conflict
Here are some of the points of conflict between Christianity and Communism. The Church belleves that a heaven on earth cannot be brought about by political and economie changes. Crucity, greba and lust will not vanish with the overthrow of capitallam.
image of God.
Hifc.
rent races are allowed to live to- gether in equality. Communism, What should the Church's at-ility, Nazism before it, is quick to titude e-In the fob of the denial exploit grievances for its own by Communtats of so much in purposes. If there are no grlo- which it belleves 7 The Church vances it sets out to create them. with the truth, but it mist oppose Communist kerentes
cannot The Church finds Commiunian a simply condeinn for it sees that challenge to its own life, for it to many people.communist recognizes that materialism is
reaction from a false kind of spirituality which has been all too common. The Church, must be coneerhed about how men live as well as with what they live for.
brotherhood.
An escape
our
"NAPI on its way to Korea," Good heavens haven't boys suffered enough?
"former Jap.
No, Myrile. this vice minister" had nothing to do with the night life of Tokyo.
"Princess
Elizabeth gets
new
big custom-built sedan." To some it presents itself as an
This juot quite how the When every other means t escape from grinding proverty,
com, süll coachbuilders, describe For others it has merit because it prohibited the Church offers racial equality.
Une its ancient weapon of prayer. Anyhow, it certainly seems to be The Church belleyes, that Com- Neither customs officer, commis- some heap, with a loita cute muntem can only be checked, not, sar tior secret police can stop that gimmicks.
The Swiss show how to
prepare cheerful conscripts
"For
sale: Beautiful blucfox fur avercial
now „Any
offer accepted."
I offer $5. Please send coat by return,
**One
woman.
..puts
It
Negro was Funday morning In officer in his spare time, summed, barrier of the peaks. At the St. Pass, on the Italian Switzerland.
Gothard The day might up his country's attitude. bring now fears about Russia and "We have had, peace for so border, I saw huge tunnellings the baby in the clothespin bag, feverish councils of defence in long", he said, "we have come to into the hillsides storage space hange it on the line and pushes France and Germany-but here value it perhaps even more than for arms and protective factory it along ahend of her as she was I along with other British If we had been at war. Each in- sites for explosives manufacture. puts up the clothes. lourists, in a blissful peacefulness dividual realises he must contri- of neutrality where rumours of wars were nothing muro than Or so I newspaper reading.
thought..
Suddenly the morning quiet was broken by the crackle of gunfire.. Burst after burst spattered from the hillside opposite my window.
It was just 5 a.m. At first I
In the desolate, Furka Range "Beer is the most popular rinse, came upon a platoon of soldiers but there is a good demand for combining drill with navvy work, whiskey and brandy rinses." While half of. them improved Women like that shouldn't be were building Food.
By Eric Sewell their skill with a rifle, the others trusted with children.
Although the Sunchon on the
Most of the precipitous moun- thin highways, have been con- the militia at the defença ptructed by
of £70 per buto something to our and he is happy to do is share. stupendous cost
There is a quality of cheerful square foot. Yet so many buve Red military chiefs, they aren't of militarism.
tourist often finds his pre-1930 Almost every co-operation in the Swiss concept been made slice, the, war the bronzed-only browned off. male Swiss has something to do road map obsolete. with the army, young conscript, a regular soldier, Tactical uses or a member of the "Home of grousing. Guard". And there are no signs
whether as a
Britons are realizing that even the longest lane has a turning. Yesterday they were shylug with relief, "Goodbye, Mr. Cripps.",
thought thrmers were on a mas sve rabbit shoot. But the noise got louder and, three hours later, when I went down to breakfast, the firing had become continuous
These new roads are a boon to waiter. "Every day, the men are "Target practico," explained the
the peace-time sightseer, but Sm The visitor's biggest surprise is the event of war would be even days and holidays they shoot from out on the rifle ranges. On Sun-
With such military.
"The vegetarian morning till night. We swiss are the sight of hundreds of cyclists more valuable for troop proud of our murksmanship. Two pedalling through the city streets
merely a toytown cruely of killing animals for wars bave passed us by--but we, with rifos slung over their should- bat, Switzerland can no longer absorb the human race from the
ers. These are civilian part-time and of are ready....just in case."
"Territorials" who to several beautiful outposts for sniping practice:
be consistes And glaciers, of food."
diet
would
and picturesque But so many people find cruely
of winter sports and
That was my first introduction | cvànings a week to the military carvings-a haven for tou in all its forms very absorbing.
As if all this were not enough to embroil the Church and the Communist in bitter strife, the claims which the Clíurch makes to Switzerland's inilitary might for itself and for men provide a defence which she reckons to be causes of entity. For the as strong, if not stronger, than further aims the right to wit- the present combined forces of ness to its Lord and His design, the rest of Western Europe. for mankind.
rists and an oasis of peace in a world of strife.
Switzerland's active. attitude is an example to all who would be strong against aggression.
Pandit Nehru is a great man, measured by any standards. And, like many of his stature, he is difficult to get along with. It is not matter only of Western inability to match his subtlety, though we have been hearing quite a lot about the lack of this quality in the dealings of the West with Asia. Even his own Party, and many others of his countrymen, do not find it easy to keep in step with him. When his own candidate The proletariat does not possess for the Presidency of Congress all the virtues nor the bourgeoisie all the vlees. The materialist view was rejected, he first with- of man is untrue. To teach that drew from the Party Execu- "Man Is what man eats" does not tive and then, proclaiming he square with the Christian view of would ne'er corisent, consent-man as a creature made in the The Christian Church therefore Idiosyncrasy of personality arms that Communism is a false is less important than idiosyn-religion and that the Communist erasy of policy, however. The state is a pernicious form 0. Hamlet-like altitude of the society which will destroy the Indian Prime Minister reflects very people to whom it promises the deeper contradictions and frustrations which affect In- dian policy and the full de- ployment of Indian leadership in Asia. The failure to settle the Kashmir problem is a grave handicap. The preacher must first practice what he preaches to command a full hearing. There is a broad solution along the lines of a Confederation, with a com- mon defence policy, which the unofficial Indian delegate ters there must not only be suggested at the Pacific Re-, subtlety, but logic and a lations Conference. But so sharing of praise or blame. far the two Governments con- The role of candid friend to cerned have fought shy of it. one and all is a peculiarly Yet strength and statesman- ship alike commend it, and it would certainly bring joy to the whole Commonwealth.
The differences between India and the United Nations over Korea were matters less of principle than of tactics, "As for China, it takes two sides to The question is of greatest effect diplomatic relations, as moment in its relation to the Britain has been rudely great plans for the develop-
ed hydrants as possible and petrol taught. Quite possibly Pan- ment of Asia. In these India
Manufacturers, carriers ond will then be pumped straight into dit Nehru is right in saying has much the biggest pro-
Saucepans are replacing, tom-
the the tanks from short, hoses con- that the West is grateful for gramme of all. She is both toms in the bush and, Jungle radio dealers, inspired by
enthusiasm.. bf the Lunke nected to the hydrants, The hy India's role as a "window" to resentful of the lack of lands of Northern Rhodesia.
officials, co-operated in keeping drants themselves will be sup China, but the necessity for American aid hitherto, and
The saucepans are not beaten the price down to a miniminn. plled from huge underground Im-fuel tanks placed strategically such an expedient is none the yet reluctant to accept it be to send out messages, for they Customs authorities, waved
and the set, which on the aerodrome.
It is believed that the new re less deplorable. If the new cause of tears and suspicions. are radio sets, specially bullf, in port dutie
would normally cost more than
when regime had recognised the One sees this great nation, Britain after three years of inten- 10 by the time it retched fuelling system will eliminate the
tmiskilled Africa is on sale to the populare risk always present Consular officials, at least with immense needs and ideas sve research, to stafid up to
of quantities Specially con carried
petrol are tion for £5.
DETORS aerodromes in handling.
structed
dry batteries, which
hydrants will also mean that cost an extra 258.
no need for any trailers at all to clutter up the runways.
This iberty is unthinkable in a state where the writings of Karl Marx usurp the place of the
de-
The regular army is continually on manoeuvres. In the bigest and most isolated mountain passes it is quite usual to find a party of While Britain and American soldiers training beside a row of and France and the Benelux big guns. countries discussed their complex There is evidenco everywhere plans for a united block, Switzer-
the army's mechanised fand was quietly building unof army. Now, at a moment's notice, strength. In the course of a day, of anti-aircraft : guns, this peace-loving nation could the tourist may see convoy after provide a fully-equipped fighting convoy
anti-tank guns, and every con- force of more than 350,000 men.
ceivable type ΟΙ armoured vehicle.
No grousing
At one of the mountain
bar. Colossal fortifications are being difficult one in this domain, racks I visited a Zurich business-hollowed out in the mountains ns Yet such candour, is more man, who trains as an infantry additional strength to the natural likely to achieve the end in
vellement view than munciation of one, side-only. The record of the United States in Asia can stand in any-light-
Saucepans speak in the jungle
By Dudley Hawkins
·
were
Petrol hydrants in Bangkok
•
"Two other members of the omission also made a plea of justlication."
Somebody, however, was guilty of the sin of omission.
Correspondent or à London paper suggests British Hallways Chould provide name plates that. Garages, and the patrol can be easily read whoa trains pumps that line them are a flash through stations,
Chap just returned from Eng- familiar sight the world over.
me most
passengera would be eontent with trains that Not so familiar, however, are land tells the new petrol, pumps, or flash through stations. hydrants, which line the run- ways on Bangkok's premier airport.
Prices in Australia continue to
The golden "flecce."
There petrol hydrants, writes | rise. Franels Dadwell, are, In fact, bo- loved to be the first of thele kind to do away with the normal sys- tems to walling plates.
trailers, carrying petrol
Myrtle's, grandfather says his
Suppstead planes will now land on wife suffers from
the runways as dear to the rear-wallment.
B chronic
Freedom
།་
army in the
Ukraine.4
de facto, when the Nationalists to correspond therewith, opital climates atid were liquidated, instead of stultified and frustrated while
The first batch of 2,000 aive, yet 330 Hours of listering, trailers.. The new Dere will be with artillery, machine-guns ignoring them or putting a small country like Siam them in prison, this problem suddenly bursts to the fore matched to the territory
soon sold; teore followed, and the would perhaps never have with a positive policy, in 79 tribes of this Central Affletiri arisen. The dual nature of both diplomacy and in econo- Colony in areas rarely visited by the question of diplomatic re- mic development; which is white men are now ledtalag simple lations with Peking seems to showing remarkable results. from their saucepan sets, greuleans? Bere is 471, excorpt froni drome would not only destroy the be ignored.
The. International Bank has ture,
Luukp
made
Confounded""
they
!
ON
The "Army" is in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and its battle- ground ta in fussla itself—in 4. the vital Industrial areas. Imme diblely North of the Black Sea.
This is believed to be the first
Corres-
Germans and TV
and
A Freedom Army: fighting
and small arms, hus launched, The only drawback in fact a new battle against Commu seems to be that a few well- nism-2,000 miles behind the And the reaction of the Atriplicte bombs on such an ROTO-
Iron Curtain. one of the hundreds of letters re-runways but at the same time blow
up all the petrol supplies! ceived at Lusaka: Nor is it a matter of turpi- promised help in four large The broadcasts in English and
But most of the people tude, open to moral censure, development projects in Siam.six local linguages and toga did not know what a small sort there for: Citer Normally one seeks friends and the Economic Co-opera from
capital, where 15-kilowats of box was where He may find them, and tion Administration has made contritter installed, and far then sent a meage to cuda The Germans, always Im-time, reports a special
But though it is not a choice to be imposed its first direct grant. Siam has out in the sample bush natiyes jo wore pr
Watu wed thuch.con pressed by technical efficiency, bondent in West Germany, that by third parties. The fact also signed agreements for an only just morting from the bow
they heard a Have never been more so than any organised Resistance Move that Britain shares the prac exchange of students and for and arrow Bage are hearings on voice they all gazed at the bat during the retent German In- ment Has been able to come out into the open, harrass the Soviet the first time nows of events, in
had to move their eyes to the dustries Fale in Berlin. tical political sense of realities technical aid. At the same the land beyond the big water."
still survive. First they were impressed by the At present the Freedom Army in Chind only gives a sharper time she retains full control
wireless. Some who saw edge to this observation. It is over her own policy, both
Set för £5
heard gramophone ingil, when huge crowds to the Brij ven thought it was Whittle jet engine which drew
claims control; of more than 200 – such. It not sufficient to upbraid the foreign and domestic.
Zeich talking... on. However, they were: even 000 square kilometres of Ukrai- United States for its attitude
the British mida territory with a population (thopen more datjonstrations. them on this point. Surely it is no is deeply concerned in the Robinson-ish broadcasting this dialect) pling them a story that television
tween 150,000 and 200,000 men The demonstratibus bayo given launch day and night raids against Feking to spare just a little of development plans for South about the war and to Jesue ordera came to know. It was different the Germans the chance of seeing Red, Aphy strrisons, police sià- the zeal Javished on friendship and South-East Asia, The In the case of a grave incigerley, from grainophene.
their first post-war television and ions and Millstries. Jooked "They all
quiet, what they have seen has made with the Soviet Union so as to strengthening of India and the idea of the saucepan set was
The Movement is reporica though there were soma who them ignore un attempted boycott be strongest in Odessh, Dnepras prepare the way for relations Pakistant means the strength-born.
German Press which
petrovsk, atid Stalino uid, among with the United States. ening of the whole. It is The scheme to keep the station played giddy goat. In short time by the
Chitonga-speaking man
stopped
objected the publicity being Does India approve the way unrealistic to speak of a open in peacetime
Woman developments
In some areas, local Red Army Art, thefroidi on
controllers have been forced to in which British recognillon severely practical problem in pomed wild radios maduras and music took pingg Mourly given to topic vision the miners in the Donete basin.
turers in Britain failed to design every young mah and
that the West Germans would be evacuate villages remains unrecognised?... We') terms of such rhetoric us one a set which would it in with, the danced. Though theyaving thefe gun, telqvisiofi, 2001.]ther troops to the i make the point merely to Luckdow dalegate employed demands of the Lustika broad dancing, their faces betrayed
And then through. they were surprised to see such
from 10 am to towns Occasionally, they have. Every day casters.. Illustrate what appears to us when he said that "the or
conversation it was dis- a thing which would bring volces p.m. the a very serious weakness in phafs of Asin Have their pride chance conversat London radio trom a distance to them.
provided the waiting firmada to maintain road communlestions be with
"The in the CIF, streek, 3
The whole Commonwealth
In 1841, when u small Heath they on
less necessary to encourage implementation of the vast was set up to keep the Africans moved themreatly that they created a minor sets which of more than 15 million Be
of Northern Rhodesia informed
Mr. Nehru's approach to these tob, and would rather, aineve ring arm had 45
delicate and vital questions. or go Communist than sur
neighbours, firm wie
and
Hero in thimble ittier la shots'oret, nims and, five" between towns and Harrisons.1 T
The West imply cannot render their independento" were making what would be an the
Meal chussis for the jungld;set= |"plancers who Have
cept the principle five years What is wanted is more con talicepans. after Pearl Harbour and Im-fidence and cold legle and went Baucopen phal that an Aslan nation leas frenetic imagery and handica® Ware
can do no wrong,
imply because It
nation, I
From 10
from the
pert
fntöre
over. to: toi tartó k8 ECAFE) tidna got to work fo
asʻzalilo, su k ontchads to
Orderan for
roward ofhandful of The quality Why According to latest reports
TV famosebni spread to own Red Cross, intelliginem Zatid. Cristo role of civilisation to the heart title a ceilal and the Freedom Fightere how i
Poff Africa. in saucepans. the Soviel; ong with the result Propaganda services and an ex-
that thousands of Daij
dar collecting funds and,
supplies.
Instay of visited the Potensive "Underground": movemnant
reward he the radio engineers who filed a All this in suite of the
JOFERTA Caterial.dk Orders-
not: Intas doklubban is the British TV team which stole Their enuso
are the crowds from the pulleftyspired by a nationalist Teel Nouring in from minor who consciousmaalein, Marchel) the Ukening, but, thàn have millions of illlers Jungle Ald Favilion, was only warned alloir raids dir Red Army ribrat
fr of of the Berlitt trip
inmay have a far wides
the Jungle will lology-