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CHRISTIANITY LOSING

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1049.

To Discuss

BATTLE TO COMMUNISM Trade Pact

Australians

Tokyo, April 9.

Christianity is losing to Communism in the bottle

for Japan's youth, in the opinion of one Ameri- can Protestant missionary.

In Manila in a Japan-wide survey which took one year to pre-

Worried

Manila, April 9.

pare, the Reverend Hallam C. Sharrock, Jr., of the Disciples Church, finds that while there is more interest in Christianity than ever before, the Japanese church has no programme to of- fer the thousands, of young people searching and trying to grasp some sort of meaning for life.

ark-

The Ideological tug-of-war between Christianity and Com. munlam was rokotved in other way recently by a JA- panese Protestant Minister In Tokyo.

The Australian community in Manila is flocking le both the Australian und British con- sulates for advice following the seront reading of a Bill in the Philippines Lower House pro- Although the younger generas hibiting residener of nationalstion accounts for 30 per cent of of countries where Filipinos are Church audiences, Mr. Shorrock barred.

reports: "The Christian Church |is not challenging young people The Bi, sponsored Herman Gildo Atienza, prohibits today if anything it is causing

turn The Reverend Sakee Akaiwa the entrance and restilence, per- many yang people to manent or temporary, of foreign- from Christianity, to fall head-old his congregation one Sunday he planned to become a ers from countries where Fili-long into an empty

chasm of that

Communist Party member. pinos suffer similar disabilities, doubt and materialism, forcing said he reached his decision be- it was passed unanimously and them to join the with acclamation in The Lower

wer bandwagon.

by Mr.

for

Communtatenuse he

felt the Communist

onc

at least the Party is the only political party House, and pluses vers here believe Communists have a programme free from corruption, and at is likely to pass the Senate with equal unanimity and with a case, which apparently whose members live what they preach, Politics and religion ure many Christians do not coulis out delay.

sepurate matters, Akaiwn said. that Christianity

has too.

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Mr. Shorrock adds: It is re- Reettable that many mmm-Christ- inns think that the only thing a Christian doe

The enactment of the Bill would i should have!" enite the expulsion of more than G# Australians, some of them re- sidents of more than 20 years' standing.

About 30 me wives of Amerienn

other husha men. Beng of Australian birth, the latter would, according to the sponsors of the Bill, choose between giving up then Letizes

Submitting broken family,

mon

bave

The Kylan, or United Church of Christ In Japan, representing sotne 80 per cent of all Japanese Protestanis, immediately Issued a statement that Commumlam and Christianity are incompatible,

the

London, April 0. Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, will probably discuss a How Anglo-Bovlet trade agreement next weak with Mr. V. A. Κιαπέκου, the leader of

the Soviet trade delegation to Oritain, Lf thoritative sources here wald tonight,

If the' Rumulana follow the lines of last year'sagreement, they will sook Brities heavy machinery,

#tation power equipment and prestes. was understood that Britáln would ask for coares grains, barley and corn, animal feed. Ing stuffe, wheat, timber and cannod

Router.

U.S. Senate Approves Aid Plan

pean went

Washington, April 9. The U.S.$5,500,000,000 Euro- recovery programme 10 the House today stamped with the overwhelm- ing approval of the U.S. Senate.

Even Administration leaders were startled by yesterday's 70-7 Senate vote for the bill approving another 15 months of Marshall Plan aid to non- Communist Western Europe.

up

The

authorisation

measure

The fuissionary propared report for Dus Japan Council of Akatwa has not vet said he has Christian Education, of which he become a Party member and the A sexretary. He hused his cun-Kysan has

not expelled him alustoas on meetings with Church | from its ranks But Kyodan off- The House was called inta ex- Committers in Tokyo and on acids, noting Akatwa's overflow-traordinary session trdny to take Held trap to 23 major cities. He g vhurch attendances, has spent in moths in post-war frankly worried over which would Both Democratic and Hepublican suffer me by its expulsion-lenders predicted quick approval. Targe

the Church

Communist or the

Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas Party.--United Press.

Democrat, said he expected a "great majority" in the House.

The bill approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee is a little different from the one pass. ed by the Senate.

Mr. Atienza snid in an Inter view today: "The Australiana can start packing now and be ready to leave Manila an Baan

He survey also gave the most In the Bill becomes inw. The

of Church-going start Protestant not Catholic Christ- amendments on the floor of the

sites in Japan - just sfært of 325.. House have made ita provisions

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four-tenths of ore retroactive, because the Aut.

Scent of tralian Government is making

Japan's 80,000,000 DX- pulation. 118 own regulations retroactive mort is throwing out residents of long-standing |

Desperate Mattor

RADIO

The ECA asked and got from the Senate authorisation to spend $1,150,000,000 up to June 90. $4,280,000,000

for the months

Pacific Pact Foredoomed,

Prominent Manilan Says KINGS LEE

Manila, Ap.il. 9.

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A prominent Manila lawyer who was a candidate for Presidential nomination said today that a Pacific Pact is foredoomed because the United States has abandoned Asia in favour of Europe. Dr. Claro M. Recto, Philippine Foreign Minister during the Japanese occupation, counselled Filipinos to make friends with Asiatic nations "as we feel the protecting clasp of America relax and slip quietly beyond our grasp. Speaking at Areas Alno Uní-American connection which re- versity which gave him a doc-mains the best safeguaril upon torate Dr. Recto asserted "na Which, with varying certainty, official announcement

we can rely there is still time to

the neglect to Inform

repair necessary

aud in- difference, we United States has reverted to displayed to our closest neigh- have heretofore its policy during the war of bours. plicing Europe before Asin ......The bonds of place, ol

"God grant that we may know common ancestry and of the how to reconquer their trust for same cultural values are at we have need of friends indeed. tractions that Asians cannot and

and that we may leam to seek hope to match rivalry for and find enduring safety of the Republic not in the shifting supremacy in American assis-m

favour and interest of the great. tance

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but in the stend-

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referring to Pre- fast powership of those kind-|

Obviously aldent Elpidio Quirino's proposal for a Pacific Pact, Dr. Recto said:

"No nation can

the foresee future and I do

not blame the makers of foreign policy who

with the best of motives mis- calculated American's affection and sympathy for Asia. It is not with betrayal of strange that their expectations they are new seeking to retrieve the situation by advocating a Paelic Past.

Unmistakable

am compelled to exprese my scepticlem of the proposal scepticism which, diploma.

tically disguised. can already Washington, For

be felt In

as it

America, great sessed of unchallenged

*cientific

macy

pos- supre- technique and Industrial productivity.

the world simul.

Europe

and between Europa and Asia America has already

gonnat ВПУС

taneously in Asla

.And

whom we are

red people with united by the common conquest i of Independence and by our com-

resolution to defend against new spoliation."

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Dr. Recto asserted the day of small neutral nation in over. He said United States "abandon- ment" of China

na could

be attributed to objections to

Chibux Kai-shek because the imperatives of stragetic necessity did not al- such considerations of honesty or democracy or even effelency to diminish American military aid to Greece. - United Press,

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Pickets At German Goods Show

New York, April 2. Twenty pickets paraded today made her unmistakeable choice before the Museum of Science "America cannot ho

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This is Radio Hong Kong Mr. Aberza said the Act woult Mr. Shorrock says the situn- broadcasting on a nut tampretes the entrance of Mrs.

tion is a desperate matter. He 845 kilovyeles per second and on Lorenzo Gambon, the Australiars

reports that while the churches! 9.52 megacycles per secund in the wife of a Filipino Amestean Army

are full of young people, they 37 metre band. special sergeant,

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AUSTRALIAN LABOUR STRIKE

Melbourne, April 9. More than 100,000 Australian workers were today ordered to

or

four Sun. days and then, finding that the church has no real programme to offer. leave and seldom re turn.

One reason for this, Mr. Shor- Frock finds, is that many young people who attend Be classes pay that they are so theological that they cannot understand the

facts of

Christian Ube gospel.

On the other hand, Mr. Shor- ock declares, recent CommunisÍ

take part i 24-hour strikes victories in China have greatly next week. Their unions, heightened

Ji- the prestige of mostly Commimist-controlled, panese Communists, and Japanese, are prolesting against one-youth particularly students,_are month prison sentence passed turning to Communism as offer.

ing on Me Leshe McPhillips, the concrete solution to these Assistant Secretary p

evotome problema and the pro- theems of other

the peoples in Federated Twonworkers Associa- tion. for contempt of court.

About 14 000 of Sydney's 15,000

fight broke out.

Astan sphere.

From Sapporo to Kagoshima," Mr. Shorrock

aid of the well-oiled communist reports, "we were

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of friendship in long-term contract authority.

The House committee trimmed fence in the face of the latter's tries exhibition opened for a $50,000,000 off the first figure and exclusion policy against Asiaties, two-week showing of products turned down the contract au- Nor can we expect America, al- manufactured in the Western Programme Summars.thorisation,

cut of ready engrossed with the rescue zone of German. total 12.32 pm. Melodies from British Film* $200,000,000. Then it wrote Into of Western Europe, to take the The Joint Committee to Combat

the bill a Government guarantee Initiative in Asia when Asia cun Anti-Semitism had for privale investors of up to truly and enduringly be united that it would picket the fair be

only on $272,000,000.

a basis of Independence cause the products were made by The result, committee members and America is committed to a proven Nazi Industrialists and war satd. would be a $72,000,000 ad- alliance with precisely those criminals.

ition to total Marshall.

Plan colonial

nial powers denying Inde- The

Commitier represents the standing in the next 16 months. pendence to the subject peoples American Jewish Labour Council If private investors

and the Jewish People's Fraterrinl. can be in-of Asia. duera to sink their

"This alone could spell doom Order. More than 500 persons money in

for a Pacifle Pact." Europe up to the full guaranice.

waited in line to buy admission A vote on this measure is cx- rected on Monday

Mona or Tuesday, After the House and Senate clear nny differences between the Two bills, their Appropriations Committee will be called on to write tegislation providing

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fronworkers stopped work today programme for youth. The story and the police were called to a meeting of several

was told of a Christian boy who thonsand became interested in Communism. striker, at Newcastle, about 00 then committed suicide, explain. The Fight Against Cholers" miles from Sydney, when a freeing in a note before he died that

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Relay) work" welings and several other the principles involved in cach 18.15 pm-Weather Report and unions have annourerd week-end wen so completely incompatible meetings to consider their action. tbal the best answer to

Idealogicni lemma was death."

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National Income, which in 1845 was more than 50 per cent below that of pre-war, must now exceed the pre-war figures, he said.

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