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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1940

AN ARCHBISHOP AND THE WAR

Those who are old enough to member 1914 must often think the stroke which in that year European civilisation crippled weak. The invalid has now had his second stroke, from which he

may or may not partially recover.

relished by, the French Government of seem to show that the intentions of left the Allies were known to him, and and the "inspired" torrent of abuse and 'slander against England would have had been pointless if his intentions been friendly. I do not know what really happened.

As for our own attitude, I cannot do better than take as typical a new York, of book by the Archbishop called "Thoughts in War-time" (Mac- millan). His Grace, after saying that war is a very dreadful thing, very unchristian, tells us this parti- cular war is righteous because no na-

and

I once asked Lord Haldane what was the real truth about the German wargullt of which we were hearing so much. He said that the Germans ought to have known that they were driving Russia into a position from which no retreat was possible. That is to say, if they knew what they were doing they committed a crime if they did not know, they committedtion is safe while Hitler remains in one of those blunders which are power, and Hitler has broken

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can bad as crimes.

promises so often that nobody

thinks believe a word he says. He

in this country that "everybody"

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It is now certain that neither the Kaiser nor Bethmann-Hollweg wish-will agree with him that this war is ed for war. From private Informa- evident duty.” tion I know that in the spring of 1914 Wilhelm II. wrote to a friend in England that the army chiefs had taken everything out of his hands, and that he feared that Germany was heading either for war or revolu- tion.

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But I take it that the army chiefs did want war, and brought it about. They defended themselves by saying that a preventive war was necessary, because the French wished to cover their two provinces, and the Russian Government, threatened with revolution, was preparing for war as a gambler's throw. The Russian strategic railways would be ready in 1916, and then Germany would pro- bably be attacked. In 1914 they were confident that they could knock out France in three months, and Russia within a year.

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Dieting Dot says there may be no time like the present to get started on setting-up exercises but it's hard to convince her weary Ilmbs.

"There 18 one who believes that it can ever be right to engage in war, and yet holds that we should have held back now."

This is a rather astonishing state-pure and reformed Church established in this kingdom," and perhaps other denominations which have the pri- vilege of being governed by bishops; but substitute the State for the Church in these sentences, and have we not the pure milk of the Nazi creed?

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The Very

GIFT OF $150,000 TO CHRISTIANSAND

To compensate for misfortunes re- sulting from his father's business fai- lure, a noted construction engineer bequeathed $150,000 to improve the cultural life of a bleak Norwegian fishing village.

The unusual bequest has been dis- closed in Philadelphia in the will of the late Henrik von Zernikow-Loss, native of Norway, who lived in Phila- delphia "more than half a century but never became an, American citizen. He passed on June 28, 1988 while on one of his annual visits to his home- land.

The will relates that during the engineer's childhood several citizens of Christiansand, his birth-place, suf- fered losses in the failure of his father's business. Mr. von Zernikow- Loss wrote that he would like to re- their descendants pay the losers or but had no way of knowing who they are or how much they lost.

So he directed that

part of his estate be turned ·over to Chrla- tlansand "for the furtherance of the beautification of its publlo parks, its

art musical life, and museum and a museum of cultural history."

175 miles south of Oslo, has no Rev.

W. R. INGE, D.D.

ment; but heaven forbid that I should The time has try to answer it now. not come to appeal from Philip drunk

Poor Philip to Philip sober.

St. Paul condemns Nazism root and branch by saying. "In Christ there is neither Jew nor 'Greek, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free," but we are not immune from the poison of ́ sec- tarian institutionalism until we can add," "In Christ there is neither Catholic nor Protestant, Anglican nor Dissenter, Modernist nor Fundamen- talist".

will awake with what the Germans call a As for our share in that. war, I schrecklick Katzenjammer. The war know, again from private informa- has killed the England that I have tion, that Asquith said to his Cabinet:known and loved. I pray that Pro-approval, "If it were "If we stand out we shall not have vidence will release me before I a friend in the world, and there see the ruin which must come upon will soon be a coalition against us." I am told that another Minister said: "Yes, and the French will join it." This is how wars are made" They are made chiefly by fear.

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Who wanted this war? Not the

us, through inflation and bankruptcy, whether we win the war or lose it.

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I will not remind our chivalrous friends, who are prepared to ride abroad rescuing distressed damsels in every part of the world, that they German army chiefs, who, I believe, were eager to clasp the blood-stained tried to hold Hitler back. Hit- ler had two objects, both in- telligible f not legitimate from the German point of view; first, to

But it would not be cured by hang- restore the boundaries of Germany as they were before the rather vindicing the neurotic Fuehrer on a gallows higher than Haman. Goering is an tive peace of 1919; and, second, to Incorporate in the Reich the German abler man than Hitler, and Hess is an

abler man than Goering. part of the defunct Austro-Hungarian

empire. The Czechs sealed their own fate by making an alliance with France and Russia.

hand of Stalin, who has murdered far more innocent people than Hitler. For I detest what they call Hitlerism as much as any of them.

As for the words of Bishop Gore, quoted by the Archbishop with half not for the miracles, I should see no more reason for supposing that God is revealed in Jesus Christ than that He is revealed in Nero," I think they are the most blasphemous remark I ever read, "A wicked and adulterous generation sceketh after a sign."

I have been reading again the diary In of my old friend Arthur Benson. 1915 he writes: "More and more I feel that my mistake has been to philosophise about the war: I don't see widely enough or know enough. My only chance is to go on at my own business."

Perhaps I should do well to follow. the advice which Arthur Benson gave. to himself. But it is difficult to hold one's tongue when one feels very deeply, and there is plenty of perni- cious and provocative talk

It is not a man that we are up other side.

on the

against, nor is it, except incidentally, perfidy and cruelty, though these are consequences of fundamentally bad T. G. TURNBULL PASSES principles.

The root of all evil is the deification

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The attack on Poland was much more popular in Germany than the annexation of Bohemia, and the pact

Mr. T. G. (Guš) Turnbull, who was with Russia was designed partly to of the State, the doctrine that the attached to the Canadian Pacific Rail- please the German Communists, who State is above the laws of right and

We may

call it a perverted way Co., Hong Kong Office, during had been anti-Nazi.

Dld Hitler be- wrong.

1914-1918, passed away at Montreal or a fanatical instituin his 59th year on March 11. romanticism lleve that France and England would

tionalism or a false religion. As a fight? We are told that Ribbentrop false religion it is the worst enemy persuaded Hitler that we were only that Christianity has ever had to face. Mr. A. C. Jeffreys, of the Hong Kong bluffing; but recent documents pub-for religion is not in much danger from Telephone

atheism-the enemy of true religion is false religion.

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sixty years ago well know. These romantic dreams pass away from a nation's mind long before it comes to "dominating the world by force." Germany will not always be willing to forget Goethe and to disown Heine.

But I must take leave to remind Medicine Company. the Archbishop that thère is mora | -than one kind of totalitarianism. What: are we to say to such statements as "The Church is part of its own, creed To be in Christ is to be in the Church. The individual Christian is helplesă

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Christiansand, a coastal town about art museum, no symphony orchestra and not much in the way of public parks.

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