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-THE PAGANS
JF we are relying upon ar- ganised Christianity in Germany to rally to
our banner of spiritual liberation when Hitler begins to fall, we may be sadly disappointed. So says the writer of a letter who can recall the time when Germany led the world in theological study.
Up till the latter part of last century it was customary for British divinity students to take a year in the theological schools of Germany. That has gone. With a few exceptions in Roman Catholic-and-Lutheran-churches- there is an almost total bank- ruptcy in spiritual leadership.
The decay of religious belief in Germany was coincident with the rise of its military power. A British newspaper correspon- dent, resident in Germany when Bamarck was nearing the peak of his glory, wrote that the vast majority of the Protestant middle classes, and even a large
"YES BUT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE OTHER FELLOW!"
AS BRITAIN STANDS UP TO THE BLITZKRIEG
.*
ROM all across thu. Europe that lles under the Swastika reports come by underground and round- about routes of a new stirring. It is not revolt: but it may be the forerunner of revolt the moment that there is anything like a chance.
Back in July, in carly August even, there was little enough hope left in any of these peoples.
They were just waiting for Britain to collapse. And that would be the end of freedom in Europe.
All the Nazi propaganda-and any other news was hard and dangerous to come by-told them it was al over bar shouting.
The Luftwaffe had already mastered the RAF. The British Fleet had lost all control of the sea. Britain was cowering under German bombs. Resistance was collapsing,
Nazi Boastings Of A
Dictated Poace, All was set for invasion; Hitler would dictate pesco in London with a week or two.
Goebbels did a bad job for his master when he spread that story from the Seine to the Vistula.
So hard did he plug the theme that he got it believed.
And then came the reaction. If all that Goebbels had said was true, then things should have happened.
The Nazi victory parade should have been marching down White- ball:
Instead, there came into Poland, into Czechoslovakia, into Northern France, migrants from the Ruhr and
the Rhineland, sent away out of
reach of the RAF,
In spite of rules and regulations. and orders, they talked,
But they had no need to. Whe
BEATEN
EUROPE
STIRS
By W. N. EWER
ract-of their coming told the story, And no propaganda could counter it. If the RAF was steadily bombing the Ruhr and Rhineland. then Goering had not anything like won the mastery of the ale.
The RAF was not a beaten force. Britain was not a beaten country.
All that Goebbels had been saying for a couple of months was moon- shine.
That trek from the Ruhr was a turning point. As the news of it spread, there came with it a new hope and a new courage.-
Then came the Nazis' change of tune. They began to complain of the brutality of the RAF: to pro- test against.British
increase, especially in Belgium and in Czechoslovakia...
Some have been so serious that the Germans have had to admit
they do not cease. them and to threaten new terror if
Most of them have been less dramatic. But they are persistent and they are increasing.
Non-co-operation-refusal to play the Quisling-is turning into paa- sive resistance: * much mora occupying Power to cope with. dimcult thing for a harassed
Passive resistance cannot turn to active resistance yet.
Invincibility Legend
Has Gone
The crip of the German garrisona An of the Gestapo is too strong aggression." for that to be possible... Hopes rose a lot more. If the they certainly were nothing like British were being aggressive, then beaten.
That is why, during the past few
But quite certainly passive resist- because there is a revival of hope ance is on the increase everywhere,
everywhere
The legend of German invinci-
British
Commonwealth
Alliance
It is often said and writtan that tho British Empire now fights alone. In a sense, this is true, oven though there are still with us the sturdy remnants of the fighting forces of fivo for- eign allies. Only the British Commonwealth of Nations re- mains intact, unconquered, light- ing on all fronts, able to strike the way to victory.
Yet one does not say of a foot- ball team that it plays alone. The British Commonwealth is itself, an alliance. In its fight- ing ranks are five fully self- governing nations, each of which chose to fight, and chooses to go on fighting, for its own reasons its own security, its own idoals, its own freedom.
Among these five are nations in Europe, in América, in Africa and in the South Pacific. What better proof could there be that the Allied cause is a world-wide cause: Canada is in the war for North American reasons, the Union for African
reasons, Australia and New Zealand for Pacific reasons, yet. all for the same renson; that the good life as free men know it is in danger, and that for the goal of a pro- gressive human brotherhood the Nazis would substitute an iron domination in the interests of their own elect
Great Brotherhood
Of the not yet fully self-gov- erning peoples of the British Commonwealth we may say the same. If in law they dre bound to the war of the whole Com- monwealth, in spirit they are free to cheer or reject it. By have shown that they, too, are every act and utterance they
eager allies Hitler faces, not a little island only, nor yet an island with a few poor and dis- tant friends, but a great group: of nations and peoples, vast in numbers and power, fighting for a common cause.
It is not enough, however, to be united in apirit. Without more practical forms of union for the conduct of the war, such a wide alliance may have danger-`. ous weaknessos-If-there-wère- no unity of command in major fighting operations, how fatal might be the confusion, tho isck of common purpose or proper
paigns. co-ordination of forces and cam-
mand requires, in the last resort. Such military unity of com-
weeks, there have come. through bility has gone. Belief is growing cheering kind about the occupied ing chance of victory. this channel and that, news of a that Britain at any rate a sport-joint political institutions at the
areas.
portion of the lower strata of By ROBERT POWER
society, were estranged from the religion of their ancestors, and took no interest in the Church
or the religious lessons thrust
upon the schools by Church and
Government combined. Scholars
top to take decisions binding on
Acts of sabotage are much on the among the neutrals.
As in the occupied countries, so the military. forces. The totali- tarian nature of modern war German prestige is still tremen- underlines this need. Perhaps dous. And every Government the fundamental flaw in the whose frontlers can be reached by Anglo-French alliance was that Jand from the Reich is going to
All for Each
walk very warily and give no cause it provided no political unity. to. for offence in Berlin.
match and govern the unity of But for all that, none of them-military command. The offer of neither the Russians, the federal union between Britnin Balkan States, nor the Spaniards and France came too late. to anything like so sure to-day that nor the Bwedes, nor the Swiss-aro remedy this flaw.
Bor
TT was a village custom of old apparent to primitive people had begun to denominate Chris- Japan, when a person fell H, than it is to us, then in the pro-i
the Germans are winning hands down. tianity an Asiatic religion [as for a man to run from house to cess of our development we have They are not as yet anything like
Must Work As One the Nazis do to-day], and the house announcing the news, and lost on the roundabouts some-out statesmen who two months ago wealth no such drastic remedy convinced that we are winging. Within the British Common- public, proud of their vaunted calling upon all the villagers to thing we have not gained on the would have calculated the odds as as federal union is needed. But European enlightenment accept make a thousand visits to the swings.
maybe 20 to 1 on Germany, would it la an issue for constant ed the degrading name.
Shinto temple.
probably calculate to-day that it is vigilance, whether the means of something like evens.
The rabble of the large citica had become uncommonly coarse, unscrupulous, and blackguardly. Already things had gone so far
S
All men are kin, and those who live close to each other are
A tail order, one may think. spiritually something moro- but apparently it served if a hundred people were good on-
they are close relations. Their
Europe is Beginning
To Doubt
that men who have had a Uni. ough to pay ten visita cach to community forms a unit, of 30% me repeat, ta going to do any any organ comparable to the Im
versity education scarcely dared to go to church lest they should be taken for hypocrites or senti- mental enthusiasts.
We smile, sceptically, at the
Nazi ostracism of the Christian idea, religion la even more pronounced. Christianity, with its guiding prin- And yet, I feel that we ought eiples of love, tolerance and kind-not to be too confident that we
Keviled and caricatured,
linesa
H
political unity and common doci- afon between governments are adequate to the needs of unity In action to defeat the enemy. No neutral government in Europe. This war has not yet thrown up which they should be much more thing risky. the temple and there offer up conscious than they are.
From Madrid to Moscow, the policy is one of apperial War Cabinet. their Invocations on behalf of
The health
prasing Hitter. the afflicted neighbour.
sickness of
But it is one of negative appease-
There are other possibilities every member of that commu-ment rather than of active co- of defect In Commonwealth nity should be of vital concern-operation.
unity for war which need 'con=" to the rest. In a time of illnessven to the countries most under stant watching. It would they should, in a spiritual sense opposition to it than there was....
German influence there is more obviously be disastrous, for in of course, make their thousand journeys to the temple, or if that 'Itler's man becomes dictator he and the United Kingdom com- Even in Rumania, the momentstance, if the several Dominions metaphor be rejected, lotus say meets with rehement
popular peted, with each other for sup that spiritually they should resistance.
plies of munitions or raw mate:” gather round the bedelde to help! It all shifts and changes as the rials from the United States of in the patient's curd.
fitier
Fother foreign countries. An ilka a. Colossus.“ Heat Anglo-French purchasing com- wore it coins to impose a mission was deemed a necessity: Continent the whole an all-Commonwealth purchas
Dut 'Europe."
dling commisalon seems no loss ,"occupied and un- occupied. is, beginning again,to j
desirable. wonder whether the feet se not of. In all these facots of modern day whether the new order that:
les 10 se must come will be mauided by Hitler War, It is not enough to have unity of purpose. There, must It looks to me der with a also be unity of decision leading new hope and a growing falak,
Under the guidance of Alfred Rosen-aro right.
burg, sensual, lustful paganism, with
Its appeal. only to the physical
sway of
of battle shifts and changes
··"b-day..
We do not perform rites of fast becoming the religious dognia of this kind in the West-not now Nazi Germany, Hiller has never at-i tempted to hide his contempt for adays at least. I suppose we In other words, it should mat boasts that
and has en- would say that we were too ter and mutter tremendously couraged to the
the efforts of civilised to entertain any beller to the community that its mem. perseflies engaged in
religious In Killer's case, his
in them. Nevertheless, as sym-bors be happy and whole. violent apposition to Christianity is bols of a great underlying truth based largely on fear-fear
The knowledge that it matters that the spread of Christian principles within they are not to be scorned. could not but affect the well-be- Germany will bring enlightenment. That truth, is the reality of lift and sustain them in their ing of the afflicted; it must up. to German people sufficient to destroy him, and his infamous system. human kinship, and If It is more trial.",
Destrides
to concerted action.