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Spiritual Awakening

men and women in Great Britain More than a million and a half

are members of a rapidly grow ing religious movement that is Service. The Rev. W. H. Elliott, called the League of Prayer and

known "radio parsons," is the one of Great Britain's best-

leading figure. The movement re- cognises no denominational diff- erences, its members merely agreeing to pray regularly for world peace and good will and to offer personal service wherever and whenever it may be of value.

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"What frightens men to-day," said Mr. Elliott in a recent mass. meeting at Brighton, “is not death, but life. The crisis did light up civilisation and we saw things about ourselves that we never saw before. There is great bewilderment and weariness of mind. Politicians tell us to go on with these meetings. be- cause they know that politics do not go down deep enough into the lives of people to change the world. We come to you with Nominally the civil war is now an appeal for service as well as over in Spain, but it can scarce- prayer.

We do not get peace. ly be said that peace has been by the avoidance of war, but by restored to that distracted coun- the coming in of a new spirit. cry. Certainly the firing squad that will drive the old spirit out." is still at work and tribunals of Home

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exterminating their reputed ing," and speak favourably of it, enemies of the Left. The "Man- but there is a tendency to com chester Guardian" recently dir-ment on the fact that for peace,. ected notice to the fact that the spiritual awakening is necessary other day the firing squad was for both sides. Spiritual values thought to be a too merciful and have little meaning for the spirit-- unresolute method of capital ual of conquest that ruthlessly punishment; death by garrotting destroys finer forces and brings was demanded by the prosecutor back old pagan gods to oppose in the case of a Yugo-Slav archi-anything that naturally results tect who was being tried by a in "peace on earth, good will to Nationalist military tribunal for men."

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his alleged assistance to Franco's former enemies in Barcelona. Art or Charts Garrotting is one of the older and

more hideous methods of inflict- For some time there has been: ing the death penalty. It de-a tendency for the up-to-date veloped from the simple form of home to do without pictures, and a cord or bandage round the leave its walls bare; but, accord- neck, which was tightened by the ing to a recent report from Lon- twisting of an inserted stick, into don, it is becoming the fashion to the more elaborate arrangement fill this vacancy with old maps. of a metal collar through which a There is something to be said screw could be advanced into the for those who prefer charts to spinal column at the base of the art, or to nothing, on their walls. neck. Garrotting by the collar No doubt they find that a picture device used to be the official begins, sooner or later, to pall ön method for civil executions in them and that a bare expansepi both Spain and Portugal, but in though restful, is not very ingo the earlier years of this century piring; and while it may take a! it had fallen into almost com- Stevenson to discover in the work plete desuetude. Later still the of the modern cartographer!: “an death penalty-in Spain was abol- inexhaustible fund of interest for ished for civilians, and with it any man with eyes to see ori there vanished that almost medie twopence worth of imagination: aeval instrument, the garrotte. to understand with, there is Since those days executionis in more to it here. There are Tri- Spain have become as common as tons and dolphins and dragons, the murders which they so close- and a ship or two beside, to stir ly resemble, and the administra- the imagination; and, puffing. tors of the triumphant Franco's cherubs to waft it into fanciful "justice" apparently seek to res- conceptions of the UnknownT, NORM tore the full rigour of the former the Fortunate Isles. It is per ritual of extinction, even as their haps understandable, then, if Nazi associates have insisted on they would rather have the a return to the headsman and the blank on, the map to that on the axe of the Middle Ages. – In both wall.

cases the impulse would appear to The artist, however need not be the same the glorification despair: he appen to something not only of capital punishment more than but of

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