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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

PRICES AND PROFITEERS sionism, neutrals are necessarily in a tight spot. They cannot accept guar-

When there is a war on, the people antees from one bloc lest they incur who do not fight have to be protect- the hostility of the other bloc. They ed as also do the people who fight. cannot even remain passive to sug- The demand for protection covers a gestions of imposed guarantees lest wide field. It is concerned with pro- their attitude become suspect.-"Chris- fiteering, among other things.

tian Science Monitor."

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JAPAN AND THE RUSSO- GERMAN PACT

In the Far East there is safety from most of the perils of war, but not safety from profiteering, unless both the buyers and the sellers of goods subject to price changes through war

Of all countries directly affected by influences do their duty. The first Hitler's pact with Bolshevism, Japan duty of the sellers is to refrain from has the strongest reason for feeling be- increasing prices except as costs de-trayed. It is admitted in Tokyo that. mand it and then only to the extent the pact may be a master stroke of actually required. The buyers have German diplomacy, which may open the specific and constant duty to re the way for a bloodless victory over port any cases which involve profit- Poland: But at the same time it is only eering or have the appearances of it, too clear that Russia's compensation is If the war continues long prices a free hand in Eastern Asia.-"Great

Britain and The East." will go up, prices of almost every- thing that has to be imported and many of the products subject to the THE RUSSIAN SURPRISE Influences of world supply and de- If the conclusion of the non-ag- mand. But this does not mean the gression pact between Russia and |boosting of prices on those products Germany is to be interpreted at its which already have paid all their fact value its incidence is obvious, but tolls and taxes. Most merchants, we it remains to be seen whether surface believe, will not attempt to profiteer, implications prove correct. but there are some who will, will at- tempt just as much as they dare.

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PRAYERS AND POWER People ask whether it would not be well to send out a call to public pray- ers these days. The answer should be, if people who pray have not felt

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Negotiations to such an end are. necessarily protracted, and the event may prove that Germany has been in- dulging in dangerous anticipations with a view to bluffing the Peace Front. "The Spectator."

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TRUTH NOT YET

Like the rest of the world, Japan

the need for prayers without any pu- has reached the temporary conclusion * blic- reminder, then times are really that the real meaning of the Russo-

bad, so bad that

a public appeal would only serve to mark this luke- warm attitude.

Jesus spoke to his disciples about collective prayer: "Where two or three are gathered together

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IN CHINA, TOO

This is a case where courage- pus adherence to principles is, as it generally is, the safest course as well. We are striv- ing to put an end to internation- al lawlessness and aggression in Europe. It lo just as Important to do so in the Far East.

This should some- times be mention-

The crushing of China by Ja- ed. Those who pray

pan would be the triumph of ought to know about others who might over right, of savagery over civilisation. 'It would great- pray. It expresses

our difficulties in unity, strengthens ly increase courage, weakens Europe and put an end to all our possible distrust national possessions and Interest . which would hind- in China. On every ground we the maxim-B¢ Such should act on er prayers.

Lord Robert

prayers are some- Just and fear not.

deve-

German non-ag- gression pact has yet to emerge. The truth is that this astonishing lopment caught all the governments shockingly by sur- prise. It had seem- ed to them, and especially to Lon- don and Tokyo, that a Russo-Ger- man rapproche- ment was about the last thing that could possibly hap- pen on this earth whereas, of course, it had so nearly 'happened eighteen months

ago that Stalin had to shoot half his generals for trying to ac- complish it. And then, when the

Kremlin itself decided it might be as well to come down on either It was singular that Caesar's be- be ready to

Good side of the fence, Mr. Litvinoy-one of havior again happened on a Friday, the day when the powers of Europe's greatest apostles of collective make room this world triumphed over Jesus. The security-was sacked to paralysis that held the disciples that for Commissar Molotov. How nicely day seems to have crept over us to all the pieces fit now.-"Japan Chroni- day. The mentality of violence and cle." mass suggestion triumphed then now. But because it happened on Good Friday, and we remember his- tory after the first Good Friday, there

A typical example of the way in is a strong appeal in the midst of all which the general public have the horror. God's power did not stop ponded as to the call for voluntary Pilate and the crowd. "Thinkest service is seen in the experience of the thou that I cannot now pray to my National Emergency Blood-Transfu- Father, and he shall presently

give sion Campaign. Already, in London

times mentioned. Cecil.

As, for instance,

when there were

prayers in Westminster Abbey

when Parliament met.

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A BLOOD BOND

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me more than twelves legions of an- and Greater London, 100,000 blood- gels?" (Matt. 28:53). Still we see it donors have been tested and register- was God's power that triumphed ed, and in some of the divisions the "Bishop Eivind Berggrav in the Aften- quota allotted has been surpassed. posten".

NEUTRAL RIGHTS

This cannot but be regarded as a most gratifying result, and a very real sup- plementation of the national organis-. ation for defence.

Nor must it be forgotten that most for this contingent

Naturally the rights of smaller Pow- of the volunteers ers to a neutral position are difficult sacrifice are women, and that all the to ignore, even in the face of Rus- clerical work involved in organisation sla's question as to the worth of a and registration has been undertaken neutrality which they could not de- by members of the Women's Volun- fend against challenges from big Pow- tary Service. It is an honourable re- a cord, showing that the nation is unit- ers. · Yet in a Europe in which choice of aides seems Imposed by the ed as it could never be unless the rise of force and by philosophies which women were taking their full part in recognise no radial limits to expan- the national effort.